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Burmeister, Lou E. – 1969
The utility value of the final vowel-consonant-e phonic generalization was examined using 2,715 common English words. When the vowel was defined as a single-vowel, the consonant as a single-consonant, and the final e as a single-e the generalization was found to be highly useful, contrary to other recent findings. Using the total sample of 2,715…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Consonants, Phonics, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedMazurkiewicz, Albert J. – Reading World, 1974
Analysis of the Rinsland vocabulary list indicated that while the list was dated, it was more than adequate for purposes of classroom instruction. (RB)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Phonics, Reading Research
Peer reviewedLewandowski, Glen – Reading World, 1979
Lists 334 words that three frequently used word lists have in common. Of these, 137 are phonically consistent and can be taught using phonics while 197 should be taught by sight-word techniques. (TJ)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Phonics, Pronunciation, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedTempleton, Shane – Reading Psychology, 1989
Examines a unified spelling and vocabulary instruction program for upper-elementary and middle-school students based on research investigating tacit and explicit knowledge of derivational morphology patterns and the orthographic expression of these patterns in semantically related words. Presents implications for and describes a systematic,…
Descriptors: Graphemes, Intermediate Grades, Morphology (Languages), Orthographic Symbols
Gunning, Thomas Galvin – 1975
The main purpose of this study was to structure and compare two series of grapheme-phoneme correspondence and phonics generalizations. The first series of correspondences and generalizations is designed for seriously disabled readers in grades 3-9 and was derived through a phonemic analysis of the first 1,500 words of the Heritage list ( The…
Descriptors: Consonants, Decoding (Reading), Doctoral Dissertations, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Vine, Ruth – 1978
The applicability of phonics generalizations, particularly the rule "When two vowels go walking the first one does the talking and the second one is silent," is examined in this paper. The first section reports on a study of the applicability of the two vowel rule to words in first- and second-grade basal readers and on a core vocabulary list; the…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 1
Download full textKurth, Ruth Justine – 1975
The primary purpose of this study was to provide empirical evidence for the assumption that if the essential subskills of word attack are mastered, then functional word attack ability will result. To obtain such evidence, the study was designed to test the functional word attack ability of 140 elementary school students who had been taught the…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Curriculum Guides, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education
