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A Framework for Using iPads to Build Early Literacy Skills
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Northrop, Laura; Killeen, Erin – Reading Teacher, 2013
The quick adoption of iPads into the classroom, coupled with the many apps targeting early literacy skills, offers a new way to build early literacy skills with emergent and beginning readers. However, young children may be more proficient with the technology than with the literacy concepts, and may not be maximizing learning, or even learning at…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Young Children, Educational Technology, Handheld Devices
Word Lists--Getting it all Together
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Hillerich, Robert L. – Reading Teacher, 1974
Reports a study of fourteen word lists and proposes a basic list of 240 starter words. (TO)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Primary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Research
Activities for Young Word Bankers.
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Garton, Sharon; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1979
Suggests a variety of class activities using word banks. (MKM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Interdisciplinary Approach, Language Experience Approach, Primary Education
The Newspaper: Resource for Teaching Study Skills
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Whisler, Nancy G. – Reading Teacher, 1972
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Intermediate Grades, Learning Activities, Newspapers
Teaching Decoding Skills to Educable Mentally Handicapped Children.
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Guthrie, Frances M.; Cunningham, Patricia M. – Reading Teacher, 1982
Reports that teaching educable mentally handicapped children to compare unknown words to words they already have in their sight vocabularies seems to improve their reading abilities. (FL)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Mild Mental Retardation, Reading Difficulties