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Download full textFroese, Victor – 1974
The purpose of this study was to compare student's tested recognition of the Dolch 220 words with their responses to the 220 highest frequency words found by Kucera and Francis in their "Computational Analysis of Present-Day American English." Subjects consisted of 155 second graders and 179 third graders from classrooms in four schools…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 3, Reading, Reading Research
Peer reviewedKolker, Brenda; Terwillger, Paul N. – Reading World, 1981
Reports that primary school children learned high imagery nouns in fewer trials than low imagery nouns and that second-grade children learned the nouns in fewer trials than did first-grade children. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Grade 1, Grade 2
Peer reviewedKaiser, Sherral; And Others – Reading Improvement, 1989
Compares the effectiveness of direct instruction and basal reading instruction in basic word attack and comprehension skills. Finds students' acquisition of basic sight word vocabulary to be greater when taught by direct instruction than by basal instruction. (RS)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Grade 2
PDF pending restorationAllain, Althea Saizan – 1977
Five hundred second-grade pupils participated in a study of the effect of the Allain Color Pack reading system on reading achievement. Subjects were divided into equal treatment and control groups; each group was stratified according to low, average, and high reading ability determined on the basis of pretests of vocabulary and comprehension. The…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 2, Primary Education, Reading Achievement
PDF pending restorationDwyer, Edward J. – Southern Journal of Educational Research, 1980
A study examined the achievement scores of second graders by race and sex on several measures of language competence. Achievement was measured in paradigmatic language, reading comprehension, sight vocabulary and listening comprehension. Subjects were 157 second graders in a large elementary school in a rural county in Georgia; one-third of the…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Language Acquisition, Listening Comprehension, Primary Education
Asplund, Betsy B.; Sunal, Cynthia S. – 1976
Ten second grade students in a slow reading group were studied to compare the effects of basal and language experience instruction on word recognition skills. For four weeks, all the students received 90 minutes of basal instruction each morning. During the afternoon sessions, the five language experience students dictated and read stories related…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 2, Language Experience Approach
Peer reviewedFreebody, Peter; Byrne, Brian – Reading Research Quarterly, 1988
Examines the word-reading strategies of a sample of second- and third-grade students in normal classrooms, focusing on the students' relative reliance on decoding versus sight-word associations. Suggests that lack of efficient decoding skills will begin to take a toll on reading comprehension by grade 3. (SR)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Grade 2, Grade 3
