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Download full textStoicheva, Mila – 1999
The purpose of this digest is to review various interpretations of balanced reading instruction and to explore the relationship between this instructional approach to beginning reading and state reading standards. Sections of the digest address what balanced reading is, offer examples from classroom practice, and discuss reading instruction and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Beginning Reading, Phonics, Primary Education
Smith, Carl B., Ed. – 2003
This Topical Bibliography and Commentary examines recent studies on phonological awareness, finding the evidence conclusive that teaching phonological awareness to young children greatly facilitates the reading process. Researchers have studied problems children experience in reading for many years. The focus of research during the 1990s has been…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bibliographies, Literature Reviews, Phonemic Awareness
Family Learning Association, Bloomington, IN. – 1998
Noting that parent involvement could be the single most important factor in children's success in school, this book helps parents act as tutors in reading and writing for their kindergarten children. It offers both general guidelines and specific strategies and activities to use for accomplishing specific objectives, such as improving decoding…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children, Parent Participation
Mitchell, Kevin, Ed. – ERIC Review, 2000
This issue focuses on the developmental path that children typically take when learning to read. The purpose is to help parents take steps to ensure that their children will make the transition from learning to read to reading to learn by the end of third grade. An introductory section includes two articles: "Parents, Children, and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Reading, Internet, Parent Role
Smith, Carl B. – 2000
This book offers suggestions to help parents make their children successful readers and learners. The first chapter, Getting Started, discusses setting an example, being a tutor, creating a positive environment, and letting children be the stars. The second chapter, The Reading Process: Building Meaning, discusses setting a purpose, stages of the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Critical Thinking, Learning Activities, Parents as Teachers
Adams, Marilyn Jager – 1990
A child's success in learning to read in the first grade appears to be the best predictor of his or her ultimate success in schooling as well as all of the events and outcomes that correlate with that. Yet, across the research literature reviewed for a recent book, "Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning about Print," children's…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Educational Trends, Emergent Literacy, Literature Reviews
