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Editorial Projects in Education, 2024
Early reading intervention is crucial to ensure all students develop strong foundational literacy skills for academic and lifelong success. This Spotlight will help readers investigate the benefits of tutoring on early reading skills; identify how to build students' reading stamina; gain insights into knowledge-building curricula; review the…
Descriptors: Reading Writing Relationship, Early Intervention, Reading Instruction, Literacy Education
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Musti-Rao, Shobana; Cartledge, Gwendolyn – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2007
In this article the authors review the reading status of urban learners and examine the role of phonemic awareness in reading acquisition. Their review indicates that phonemic awareness alone is not sufficient for reading acquisition, and that phonemic awareness in combination with alphabetic principle is needed to promote reading competence. The…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Phonemics, Phonemic Awareness, Reading Instruction
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Barclay, Kathy; Benelli, Cecelia – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 1997
Argues that observations of how children construct literacy and their responses to print-filled environments will help child care providers and families be better prepared to support children's emergent literacy. Provides advice on literacy development, supporting emergent literacy, developing positive attitudes toward reading, and developing…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Emergent Literacy, Infants, Literacy Education
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Holdaway, Don – Theory into Practice, 1982
The "shared book experience," a teaching model developed in New Zealand to introduce Pacific Island children to literacy education, is described. The model, based on use of popular children's books, teaches children to master literacy skills the way they master spoken language. Research on early pre-reading behavior is discussed. (PP)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childrens Literature, Early Reading, Educationally Disadvantaged
Lado, Robert, Ed.; Andersson, Theodore, Ed. – 1976
The six articles in this journal deal with various aspects of early reading. The topics covered are: a preschool biliteracy project; early reading as language development; the techniques used in teaching children with normal hearing, hearing impaired children, and deaf children to read; preschool reading and speaking acquisition in two languages;…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Early Childhood Education, Early Reading, Foreign Countries
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Dowhower, Sarah L. – Reading Horizons, 1989
Explores the dilemmas and constraints faced by kindergarten teachers in trying to bridge home and school learning for the early reader. Suggests possible resolutions for teachers to meet the varied needs of kindergarten students. (MG)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Early Reading, Elementary School Curriculum
Purcell-Gates, Victoria; And Others – 1994
A descriptive study examined the relationships between what young children learned about written language in the home and their parents' levels of literacy ability and their uses of print in their lives. Twenty-four children, aged 4-6, in 20 families of low socioeconomic status were observed during their waking hours in their homes and communities…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Children, Early Reading