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Peer reviewedMazurkiewicz, Albert J. – Reading World, 1974
Analysis of the Rinsland vocabulary list indicated that while the list was dated, it was more than adequate for purposes of classroom instruction. (RB)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Phonics, Reading Research
Peer reviewedShapiro, Bernard J.; Willford, Robert E. – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comprehension, Grade 1, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Peer reviewedSchneyer, J. Wesley – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Applied Linguistics, Basal Reading, Basic Reading
Peer reviewedCramer, Ronald L. – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Phonetic Analysis, Phonics, Reading Achievement
Fountas, Irene C., Ed.; Pinnell, Gay Su, Ed. – 1999
Extending the editors' system for word study, this book presents essays by scholars and practitioners who explore letter and word learning in a variety of reading, writing, and language contexts in the primary classroom, with articles that range from detailed observations of individual readers and writers to full-scale analyses of classroom…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Evaluation Methods, Phonics, Primary Education
Download full textMassaro, Dominic W.; And Others – 1980
A study assessed the role of orthographic structure in college students' perceptual recognition and judgment of letter strings. Lexical status, word frequency, bigram frequency, log bigram frequency, and regularity of letter sequencing were orthogonally varied across a series of experiments. Six-letter words and their anagrams were used as test…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English, Higher Education, Letters (Alphabet)
Peer reviewedWeber, William R.; Henderson, Edmund H. – Reading Psychology, 1989
Investigates whether a computer-based word study method, emphasizing automaticity of response, would improve students' word recognition, spelling, and oral reading performance. Finds support for a verbal efficiency theory of reading, in which the key to developing reading efficiency is developing word recognition that is automatic. (RS)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 4
Gunning, Thomas Galvin – 1975
The main purpose of this study was to structure and compare two series of grapheme-phoneme correspondence and phonics generalizations. The first series of correspondences and generalizations is designed for seriously disabled readers in grades 3-9 and was derived through a phonemic analysis of the first 1,500 words of the Heritage list ( The…
Descriptors: Consonants, Decoding (Reading), Doctoral Dissertations, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Zugel, Kevin – Online Submission, 2005
"Sort Stories: Leveled Reading Supplement to Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Letter Name-Alphabet Spellers" effectiveness was tested using five English language learner (ELL) students in the fifth and sixth grade. "Sort Stories" uses the word lists and accompanying clip-art from "Words Their Way" in developmental, grade-level specific, short read…
Descriptors: Spelling, Word Lists, Grade 6, Reading Rate
Ehri, Linnea C. – 1985
Focusing on research about children's acquisition of reading and spelling skills, this paper discusses the larger picture of reading acquisition, issues addressed by research, and results of this research. The paper cites numerous studies on the subject, including studies on whether environmental print experiences enable young children to process…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Early Reading, Elementary Education
