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Salez, Carole Joan – 1976
This study examines the relationships between the measures of visual and auditory discrimination contained in five reading readiness batteries: the Clymer-Barrett Prereading Battery (Form A), the Gates-MacGinitie Readiness Skills Test, the Harrison-Stroud Reading Readiness Profile, the Metropolitan Reading Readiness Tests (Form A), and the…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Doctoral Dissertations, Early Childhood Education, Reading Readiness
Download full textHILLERICH, ROBERT L. – 1966
THE RESULTS OF 17 STUDIES ON READING READINESS ARE SUMMARIZED AND INTERPRETED. ALL BUT ONE OF THE STUDIES WERE COMPLETED SINCE 1957. READING READINESS IS DEFINED, AND THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TRADITIONAL AND CURRENT THEORY ARE DISCUSSED. STUDIES OF FORMAL READING READINESS INSTRUCTION IN KINDERGARTEN ARE DESCRIBED. CONCLUSIONS ABOUT KINDS OF…
Descriptors: Age, Child Development, Educational Theories, Kindergarten
Harckham, Laura D.; Hagen, Lois V. – 1970
A 3-year study concerning teaching a phonics-oriented kindergarten readiness program of letter recognition and beginning consonant sounds was discussed. Sixty-eight children attending kindergarten in a suburban middle and upper-middle class community composed the sample. The experimental group consisted of 33 children; the control group consisted…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Kindergarten Children, Listening Skills, Phonics
Olson, Arthur V. – 1969
The development of a research model to aid in the understanding of the hierarchical structure of reading readiness is described. Data were obtained by testing 218 first graders from three elementary schools with the Frostig Developmental Test of Visual Perception, the Gates Reading Readiness Test, the Metropolitan Readiness Test, the Olson Reading…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Grade 1, Models, Predictive Measurement
Peer reviewedCollins, Cathy – Reading Improvement, 1979
Reports on a study that examined the predictive power of five specific prereading skills tests for first-grade reading achievement and assessed their value as indicators of reading readiness. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Criterion Referenced Tests, Grade 1, Predictive Validity
Direct linkKim, Youb, Ed.; Risko, Victoria J., Ed.; Compton, Donald L., Ed.; Dickinson, David K., Ed.; Hundley, Melanie K., Ed.; Jimenez, Robert T., Ed.; Leander, Kevin M., Ed.; Rowe, Deborah Wells, Ed. – National Reading Conference, 2008
This publication offers the 57th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (NRC). This Yearbook begins with a preface and presents profiles of two awardees, John E. McEneaney and Scott G. Paris. Included in this Yearbook are the following papers: (1) The Education of African-American Students: Voicing the Debates, Controversies, and Solutions…
Descriptors: African American Students, Recreational Reading, Reading Ability, Scholarship
GUNDERSON, DORIS V. – 1965
FOURTEEN STUDIES IN THE AREA OF READING READINESS ARE SURVEYED. MUCH OF THE RESEARCH IS DIRECTED AT THE CHILD WHO NEEDS A PERIOD OF READINESS, PARTICULARLY THE CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED CHILD. THE VALIDITY OF READINESS TESTS, THE IMPORTANCE OF SEX DIFFERENCES, AND BEGINNING READERS ARE OTHER TOPICS DISCUSSED. REFERENCES ARE GIVEN. THIS ARTICLE IS…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Disadvantaged, Grade 1, Kindergarten
Victor, Jack – 1970
In this research project, the problems studied were as follows: (1) Are there differences in scanning patterns between preschool children who show Positional Response Sets (PRS) and normal adults? (2) Do the techniques utilized in "An Exploration of PRS in Disadvantaged children and a Technique for Reduction of Such Sets" change scanning patterns?…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Perceptual Development, Perceptual Motor Coordination, Preschool Children
Venezky, Richard; And Others – 1972
As a cooperative project of Tel Aviv University, the University of Wisconsin, and Stanford University, four separate studies on reading were conducted in the 1970-71 school year with kindergarten and first grade Israeli students. The first study was the development of a prereading skills test consisting of picture vocabulary, word memory span,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Kindergarten Children, Memory
Ollila, Lloyd; And Others – 1972
A Canadian study designed to develop a reading readiness battery which would include proven types of prereading measures and newly conceived predictors is discussed. The goals of the study were to identify and develop indexes of reading readiness for the child's concept of the reading task, his perceptual ability, his linguistic competence and his…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Measurement Techniques, Predictive Measurement, Reading Ability
Peer reviewedDowning, John – Reading Teacher, 1984
Reports that readiness tests given to children in bilingual villages in Papua New Guinea showed that children learning to read in an unfamiliar language were more confused than were children who had never had literacy instruction. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingual Students, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
McNinch, George – 1970
A study was conducted to determine the relationship between auditory perceptual skills and first-grade reading success when readiness and intelligence measures were used in conjunction with auditory skills assessments. Sex differences were also considered. Six boys and six girls were randomly selected from each of 10 first-grade classrooms.…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Grade 1
Malmquist, Eve – 1969
Swedish children, who receive extensive readiness activities in their first months in school, are taught through a diagnostic approach which involves observation, diagnosis, and treatment of difficulty by the classroom teacher. Results of a 6-year longitudinal study of the system revealed (1) the degree of success achieved by a program of remedial…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Longitudinal Studies, Observation, Predictive Measurement
Gunderson, Doris V. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963
This bulletin is the first in a series of summaries of research conducted in reading from 1955 to 1960. The publication includes both published and unpublished research during the 5-year period. The published research has been compiled largely from studies reported in educational periodicals. The unpublished research was made available through a…
Descriptors: Educational History, Annotated Bibliographies, Elementary School Students, Reading Research
Horn, Thomas D.; Hernandez, Carmela – 1976
This paper contains a critical evaluation of the research conducted by O.L. Davis and Carl Personke on the use of reading readiness tests in English and Spanish for Spanish speaking elementary school pupils. Davis and Personke indicated that, when Spanish speaking first graders were tested in both English and Spanish, most of the differences were…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Bilingual Students, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
