Three principles are integral to any reading theory which provides reading teachers and researchers with the linguistic explanatory power required by linguistic theory. A clear understanding of language is dependent on the knowledge of what language is and how it works. There is an important distinction between competence and performance; most…

Since linguists have been concerned with a variety of approaches to the teaching of reading, their linguistic theories and recommended practices should become familiar to teachers of American Indian students. A number of studies have evolved from the work of Leonard Bloomfield and Charles Fries who felt that reading comprehension was a passive…

This module is the first in a two-module cluster. Together, the modules are designed to enable students to recognize and identify by type the errors that occur in recorded samples of oral reading. This one--Module A--focuses on the most common phonemic and morphemic elements of English. In preparation for the analysis of errors, students learn to…

The answers to the tests and exercises presented in the manual in "Module A; Classifying Word Identification Errors," are presented in this second part of the two-volume set. (JD)