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Emans, Robert – Elem Engl, 1969
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Linguistics, Phonics, Reading Instruction
South San Francisco Unified School District, CA. – 1974
One of the twelve exemplary programs summarized in the Introduction to Right to Read's "Effective Reading Programs: Summaries of 222 Selected Programs" (CS001934), this program uses an organized phonics system to increase the reading readiness of one school's kindergarten children, many of whom have bilingual parents. In a careful…
Descriptors: Kindergarten Children, Phonics, Primary Education, Reading Development
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Dorval, Bruce; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1978
Research indicates that the Wallach and Wallach tutorial reading program for low-readiness first graders which emphasizes phoneme identification skills is effective. (MKM)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Beginning Reading, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 1
Haisley, Faye B.; Perino, Lyn – 1977
An attempt to build on oral language programs--such as the language experience approach--by adding a written language component and a phonics component, to make transition to reading more meaningful and reading skill development more systematic, was undertaken in the study described here. The program, called DIREKT, was conducted by two…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Kindergarten Children, Language Experience Approach
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Atkinson, Richard C.; Fletcher, John D. – Reading Teacher, 1972
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Computer Assisted Instruction, Individualized Instruction, Phonics
HARRIS, ALBERT J. – 1965
A DESCRIPTION IS MADE OF AN ATTEMPT TO APPLY TO FIRST GRADE READING INSTRUCTION THE IDEA THAT CHILDREN CAN BENEFIT WHEN THE TEACHING OF READING IS ADAPTED TO THEIR COGNITIVE STYLE. PRETESTING WAS DONE TO DISCOVER THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES IN LEARNING APTITUDES, AND THE TEACHING PROCEDURE WAS MODIFIED TO EMPHASIZE COMPARATIVELY STRONG ABILITIES.…
Descriptors: Aptitude, Beginning Reading, Cognitive Ability, Grade 1
Weber, Elaine Marie – 1975
This study examined the effects of two programs which differed in the methods they employed to develop reading readiness. The two methods represented were a language experience approach and a phonics approach. The subjects were children from kindergarten classes in two elementary schools in Flint, Michigan. All subjects were randomly assigned…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Language Experience Approach, Phonics
Hughes, John M. – 1972
Suggestions for various activities, games, and materials for teaching phonics are presented in this handbook for teachers and teachers in training. The chapters and materials covered include: (1) "Why Phonics," which presents the rationale for teaching phonics; (2) "A Suggested Order for Teaching Phonics," which discusses the order of difficulty…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Phonics
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District, Monterey, CA. – 1974
This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 115 disadvantaged children in first through third grade and includes black, Filipino, white, and Spanish-surname students. Begun in 1965, Total Reading is a complete language arts program for the primary grades which integrates the teaching of reading, writing, spelling,…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Language Arts, Phonics, Primary Education
Spache, George D. – 1972
This book reviews research on the teaching of elementary reading and summarizes the research in such a way as to make it useful to the elementary school teacher. A number of methods and procedures of instruction are considered. The first chapter discusses when to begin reading and general topics related to teaching young children, and the second…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Elementary Education, Individualized Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Keele, Reba L.; Harrison, Grant V. – 1971
A structured tutoring technique utilizing the services of parents and high school students was devised. A study was carried out in Provo, Utah, with 10 children in each of six groups--three kindergarten and three first-grade groups consisting of one control group, one with parent tutors, and one with student tutors. The tutors were given a manual…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Individualized Instruction, Kindergarten Children
Richardson, Ellis – 1979
This teacher's manual is designed to help teachers organize primary level reading instruction according to the particular skill being taught and to integrate lessons from several different sources. Skills are suggested for instruction, and directions and examples are given to aid the teacher in selecting lessons from different reading program…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Integrated Curriculum
Niles, Olive S. – 1966
Part 1 describes a followup study of the effects of three types of beginning reading programs on reading achievement of second graders predicted by pretests as likely to have difficulty learning to read. Forty first-grade classrooms participated, 10 classes for each treatment. All treatment A classes received instruction using the basal program.…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Books, Childrens Literature
Saratore, Katherine K.; Walsh, Mary Ann – 1996
A study examined an early reading intervention program designed to lead children, identified with low reading readiness at the start of first grade, to an appropriate reading level by the end of a 6-month period. Subjects were students entering first grade in a middle class community in northern Illinois. The problems of low reading readiness were…
Descriptors: Action Research, Beginning Reading, Childrens Literature, Early Intervention
Wallach, Michael A.; Wallach, Lise – 1976
The rationale, development, and implementation of a reading program designed to teach disadvantaged children the skills prerequisite to learning to read are discussed in this paper. Of particular importance are skills in the recognition and manipulation of basic speech sounds, phonemes. The first of the program's three parts takes two and one-half…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Conference Reports, Disadvantaged Youth, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
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