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Download full textLesgold, Alan M.; Curtis, Mary E. – 1980
The research described in this report is the first part of an attempt to study the development of both overall reading ability and verbal encoding efficiency in an effort to see how the two are related. The report proposes a theory of prerequisite or hierarchical relationships and suggests that there may be differences between performance of a…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Processes, Longitudinal Studies
GOODMAN, KENNETH S. – 1965
A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF THE ORAL READING OF FIRST-, SECOND-, AND THIRD-GRADE CHILDREN IS REPORTED. THE STUDY TREATS READING AS A PSYCHOLINGUISTIC PROCESS WHICH IS CUED OR MISCUED DURING THE CHILD'S INTERACTION WITH WRITTEN LANGUAGE. THE SUBJECTS WERE 100 CHILDREN ATTENDING THE SAME SCHOOL IN A DETROIT INDUSTRIAL SUBURB. EVERY SECOND CHILD ON AN…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Eye Movements, Grade 1, Grade 2
Henderson, Edmund H., Ed.; Beers, James W., Ed. – 1980
The emphasis of this book is on theory and research in spelling. It also includes practical information for the classroom teacher by noting teaching principles and generalizations that can guide spelling instruction. The book contains 12 chapters dealing with the following topics: (1) developmental concepts of word; (2) what a word is; (3)…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Dawson, Mildred A., Comp. – 1971
A series of articles with the chief emphasis on phonics as a means of analyzing words is presented. Various articles pertain to elementary, secondary, and college level instruction. The first of the five parts into which the volume is divided is comprised of a single article which gives an excellent overview of the field of word recognition. Part…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, College Students, Context Clues, Elementary School Students
Luyben, Paul D. – 1973
Utilizing a "shotgun" instructional approach with feedback, a linear instructional program, and an IBM 1500 computer system, this study investigated the effects of pictorial representations of words on the acquisition of a sight vocabulary by rural emotionally and mentally retarded (EMR) students. Twenty-seven students were involved in the study.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Emotional Disturbances, Handicapped Children, Low Ability Students
Peer reviewedYoung-Loveridge, Jennifer M. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Examines the role of experience in the use of orthographic structure by good and poor sixth-grade readers. Results showed that poor sixth-grade readers used orthographic structure to speed their matching judgments just as effectively as good sixth-grade readers. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Grade 4
Peer reviewedBaghban, Marcia – Reading Horizons, 1986
Summarizes and updates original study done on reading and writing development of a preschool child. (SRT)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Beginning Reading, Child Development, Child Language
Brennan, Patricia A.; Leidig, Cheri Petras; Picicco, Giovanna G. – 2001
This report describes a program for improving reading fluency in the classroom. The researchers worked with their students to increase their word recognition rate and accuracy within a text. The emphasis was on their ability to appropriately and consistently model reading with expression and intonation. The targeted population consisted of first…
Descriptors: Action Research, Family School Relationship, Grade 1, Grade 2
Hiebert, Elfrieda H.; Pearson, P. David; Taylor, Barbara M.; Richardson, Virginia; Paris, Scott G. – 1998
Extensive research over the past 30 years has established the classroom and home experiences that support independent reading by the end of third grade. This set of eight six-page pamphlets draws on this research in providing teachers with practical suggestions on improving children's reading achievement. It includes practices easily incorporated…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Oral Language, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics
Peer reviewedRobeck, Carol P. – Reading World, 1982
Concludes that linguistic concept knowledge contributed the greatest amount of unique variance to oral comprehension, silent comprehension, and word recognition at the first grade level, while cognitive style contributed the greatest amount of unique variance to silent comprehension at the third grade level. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Concept Formation, Grade 1, Grade 3
Peer reviewedChu-Chang, Mae; Loritz, Donald J. – Language Learning, 1977
Twenty-two Cantonese-speaking Chinese students and 16 Spanish-speaking students were tested for short-term memory encoding strategies on word-recognition tests. Chinese speakers were found to encode Chinese ideographs phonologically, but both Chinese and Spanish learners of English were found to encode English words visually. (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Chinese, English (Second Language), Ideography
Conners, Frances A. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1992
Analysis of research on reading instruction for children with moderate mental retardation indicated that word analysis instruction is a feasible option; word analysis is the most effective method of oral reading error correction; and the strongest sight-word instruction methods include those that use picture integration, constant delay, and the…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education, Error Correction, Moderate Mental Retardation
Shu, Hua; And Others – 1994
A study investigated children's natural learning of word meanings while reading. Subjects, 447 American and Chinese children in third and fifth grades, read one of two cross-translated stories and then completed a test on the difficult words in both stories. Results indicated: (1) significant incidental learning of word meanings in both grades in…
Descriptors: Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Education
Herman, Patricia A.; And Others – 1985
A study investigated how text features influence the amount of vocabulary knowledge students acquired incidentally while reading expositions. Three sets of text features were identified from studies on comprehension: (1) features associated with the macrostructure, (2) features associated with logical and temporal relations in the microstructure,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Grade 8, Junior High Schools
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1983
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 26 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) individual differences in the use of comprehension strategies; (2) field dependence-independence and text comprehension; (3) automaticity of word…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Development, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education
