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Download full textDonovan, Margaret A. – 1976
This review of the literature on kindergarten assessment and its relationship to primary reading achievement is divided into the the following sections: (1) studies which support early assessment; (2) studies which suggest the use of a battery over a single readiness test; (3) studies which utilize assessment data for treatment purposes; (4)…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Diagnostic Tests, Kindergarten Children, Literature Reviews
Doyle, Mary Anne – 1987
A study examined the relationship between reading instruction method, sex of learner, word learning proficiency and reading achievement in the first grade. Subjects were 78 males and 88 females chosen from two white, middle class suburban schools, one having a sight vocabulary instruction program, the other a phonic basal program. Students were…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Educational Assessment, Grade 1, Phonics
Peer reviewedSchickedanz, Judith A. – Young Children, 1978
Discusses some of the common explanations for the effects of story reading at home upon children's later reading achievement, and offers an alternative explanation along with implications for classroom practices. (CM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Early Reading, Parent Participation, Preschool Children
Johnson, Ronald J. – 1970
The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effect on first-grade reading achievement of completing a program designed to teach the names of the letters of the alphabet before beginning formal reading instruction. Information was sought on the differential effect of this program on either boys or girls of different levels of…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Program Effectiveness
Peer reviewedFreebody, Peter; Rust, Patricia A. – Journal of School Psychology, 1985
Results from reading tests and demographic variables indicated that knowledge about books and print conventions is strongly related to reading achievement, and is predictive of comprehension involving the inferential linking of two pieces of information separated in the text. Students in a subskills-emphasis program outperformed those in a…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Prediction
Peer reviewedPikulski, John – Reading Teacher, 1973
Researches a basal reading and a language arts method of teaching reading, advancing the possibility of using reading readiness instead of intelligence tests to predict later reading achievement. (RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 1, Grade 6, Predictive Validity
Mac Ginitie, Walter H. – Reading Res Quart, 1969
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Discrimination Learning, Evaluation, Memory
Young, Dorothy June – 1975
This study was concerned with the investigation of those factors or combinations of factors which are predictive of success in reading under four methods of teaching beginning reading. The total population of 114 kindergarten children in a semirural, middle-class city in the Southwest were selected for the study. It was concluded that the most…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Doctoral Dissertations, Kindergarten Children, Predictor Variables
Dykstra, Robert – Reading Res Quart, 1970
Descriptors: Grade 2, Instructional Materials, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction
Stanchfield, Jo M. – 1973
Statistics from research studies indicate that boys have more difficulty than girls in learning to read. As a result, changes being made in the educational system are aimed at adapting early instruction to the individual needs and capacities of boys as well as girls. This booklet focuses on past research on sex differences in reading achievement,…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Individual Differences, Males, Reading Achievement
Peer reviewedFry, Edward – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Diacritical Marking, Elementary Education
George Washington Univ., Washington, DC. Inst. for Educational Leadership. – 1980
This booklet contains transcripts of two radio programs on the teaching of reading that were coproduced by the National Public Radio and the Institute for Educational Leadership of the George Washington University. The first transcript emphasizes the child's readiness and motivation in learning to read and provides an overview of children's…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Radio
French, Virginia R. – Ill Sch Res, 1969
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Early Childhood Education, Instructional Programs
Peer reviewedSmith, Inez L.; Ringler, Lenore H. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Learning Processes, Lower Class Students
BOERCKER, MARGUERITE; RAMSEY, WALLACE – 1967
A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF ATTENDING AN 8-WEEK HEADSTART PROGRAM DURING THE SUMMER PRIOR TO THE FIRST GRADE ON THE FIRST-GRADE READING ACHIEVEMENT OF 152 PUPILS IN SCOTT COUNTY, KENTUCKY, INDICATED A NEED FOR A CLASSROOM CONTINUATION OF THE EXPERIENCE APPROACH IN READING METHODS. AT THE OPENING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, THE HEADSTART PUPILS WERE MIXED IN…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged, Grade 1, Language Experience Approach
