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Download full textMason, Jana M.; Stewart, Janice – 1988
A study examined preschool children's awareness of literacy. Subjects included 18 children from 2 classrooms of prekindergarten children who lived in a black, inner-city neighborhood and attended a school that believed in providing formal reading and writing instruction in the prekindergarten year. Subjects were asked how they were learning, how…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, Early Reading
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
Peer reviewedLass, Bonnie – Reading Teacher, 1983
Continues the chronicle of the development of a young reader. Details his growth in reading and interests in his third year. (FL)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages, Early Childhood Education
Peer reviewedDickinson, David K.; And Others – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1992
Examined preschoolers' experiences with their mothers and during group reading in preschool. Concludes that the patterns of adults' and preschoolers' talk about books support a model of a home-school relationship in which mothers provide an introduction to book reading that teachers expand by engaging children in cognitively challenging…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Reading, Family School Relationship, Low Income Groups
Marion, L. Marvin – 1982
A questionnaire on reading was administered to every student in the St. Joseph, Missouri, "Rainbow" program for gifted and talented readers. The same questionnaire was administered to a cross sectional sample of fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students in regular classrooms in the same district. Among other things, results showed that (1) 75% of…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Academically Gifted, Acceleration (Education), Comparative Analysis
HAYES, ROBERT B.; WUEST, RICHARD C. – 1968
FOUR APPROACHES TO BEGINNING READING WERE EVALUATED IN A 3-YEAR STUDY OF ELEMENTARY PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS IN NEW CASTLE, PENNSYLVANIA. THE FOUR APPROACHES USED WERE (1) A BASAL READER PROGRAM PUBLISHED BY SCOTT, FORESMAN AND CO. (1962), (2) A PHONIC PROGRAM UTILIZING CORRELATED FILMSTRIPS PUBLISHED BY J.B. LIPPINCOTT CO. (1963), (3) A COMBINATION…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Developmental Reading, Directed Reading Activity
Lamana, Peter A., Comp. – 1974
This booklet contains abstracts of papers presented at the 1974 conference of the Keystone State (Pennsylvania) Reading Association--the theme of the meeting was "humanism in reading." Abstracts are grouped according to the following "strands," or topics: early childhood, literacy and multilingual/multicultural education,…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Affective Objectives, Conference Reports, Content Area Reading
Goetz, Elizabeth M.; Etzel, Barbara C. – 1978
Three reading procedures for learning isolated words--whole-word, syllable-blending, and phonics-blending--were examined to determine which was the most effective for preschool children. The six preschool children in the study were divided into two groups to assess the effects of the length and number of different letters in a series of training…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Reading, Learning Processes, Phonics
Peer reviewedLomax, Richard G.; McGee, Lea M. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1987
Presents results of tested theoretical models of the development of print concepts and word reading. Indicates that children expand their knowledge in each of the following print components with age: print, graphic awareness, phonemic awareness, grapheme-phoneme correspondence knowledge, and word reading components. (NKA)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Decoding (Reading), Early Childhood Education, Early Reading
Peer reviewedYaden, David – Reading Teacher, 1988
Cites research supporting the theory that young children need several exposures to a story for complete understanding and reports on a study involving six rereadings of one book to a five year old over a two week period in an effort to guide "literary" development. (NH)
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Childhood Interests, Childhood Needs, Early Childhood Education
Roller, Cathy M., Ed. – 2002
This collection of 9 papers from the International Reading Association's Reading Research 2001 Conference (RR2001) addresses comprehensive reading instruction across the grade levels. The introduction, "How Will We Develop the Concept of Comprehensive Reading Instruction Across Grade Levels?," notes that five quandaries arose in the discussion of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Early Reading, Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy
Chall, Jeanne; Snow, Catherine – 1982
Addressing the question of why some children manage to continue successfully through the later stages of literacy acquisition while others are unable to meet the challenges presented by fourth and fifth grade reading tasks, an 18-month, in-depth study was conducted of the home environment factors influencing the reading comprehension of second,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cultural Enrichment, Early Reading, Elementary Education
Devine, Thomas G. – 1989
The purpose of this book on reading instruction in the elementary school is twofold: firstly, to share with colleagues some of the significant works of research and theory that suggest answers to important questions about reading instruction, and secondly, to describe specific teaching strategies implied by these answers. The book assumes that…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Content Area Reading, Early Reading, Elementary Education
Tam, Hak Ping – 1987
To evaluate the 1987 Compensatory Language Experiences and Reading (CLEAR)-Reading Recovery Summer Project undertaken in the Columbus, Ohio Public Schools, data on reading improvement of 59 first grade pupils from Douglas Alternative School were collected. The objective of the 5-week, 3-hour-per-day-program was to give students enough instruction…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Early Reading, Grade 1, Individualized Education Programs
Toomey, Derek – 1987
Noting that parents have considerable influence on their children's learning during the process of general socialization, this paper reviews literature from primary and post primary schools about involving parents with their children's reading development. Following an introduction which summarizes the pertinent literature, the first section…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Educational Cooperation, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
