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Peer reviewedCaldwell, Sarah T. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 1985
Thirteen young readers (mean age 65.5 months) were compared with 11 nonreaders (mean age 50.4 months). Results of correlations of the Durrell Analysis of Reading Difficulty showed a wide range of abilities on the individual subtests. A subsequent analysis of basal reading texts' teachers' editions revealed a lack of information on teaching early…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Gifted, Preschool Education, Reading Materials
Peer reviewedEnzmann, Arthur M. – Reading Teacher, 1971
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Early Reading, Individual Testing, Individualized Instruction
Dilena, Mike – 1977
This paper suggests that by emphasizing word identification skills and oral reading and by using limited reading materials, teachers have neglected reading for meaning. Following a review of current instructional practices, the paper explains how understanding writing depends on the world experience, language knowledge, and processing strategies…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Early Reading, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries
Download full textAukerman, Robert C., Ed. – 1972
This volume is an organized collection of papers which were presented at the International Reading Association convention at Atlantic City. The authors are scholars concerned with early childhood education. They explore topics that range from conclusions drawn from research on implicit speech to the advisability of teaching reading to…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Early Reading, Measurement
Goetz, Elizabeth M. – 1983
Given preschool children's characteristically short attention spans and unpredictable interests, teachers can encourage early reading most effectively and appropriately through the systemization of informal or incidental, rather than formal, learning. They can make learning to read relevant to traditional preschool activities in a number of ways.…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Emergent Literacy, Learning Activities, Preschool Children
HARRIS, LARRY A. – 1967
THE IMPORTANT PAPERS PUBLISHED IN THE YEARLY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL READING ASSOCIATION IN ELEMENTARY READING SINCE 1960 ARE LISTED WITH ANNOTATIONS, AND THE COMPLETE TEXT OF EACH PAPER IS PROVIDED. THE 345 PAPERS ARE PRESENTED WITHIN THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES--(1) THE OBJECTIVES AND GOALS IN READING, (2) READING PROGRAMS, (3)…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bilingual Students, Content Area Reading, Disadvantaged
Sasaoka, Taichi – 1990
Literacy materials are either for illiterate people or for neoliterate people (those who have attained limited literacy but might easily relapse if they do not practice reading with appropriate materials). Thirty-five kinds of prototype materials for neoliterate persons have been developed by the Asian/Pacific Joint Production Programme of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Developing Nations
DeLawter, Jayne, Ed. – 1976
The 33 articles published in this conference report represent the wide range of topics covered at the conference. Entries are organized under the following six headings: Comprehension: the reason for reading; the role of reading in personal development; language and cultural variables and reading; instructional programs and procedures; reading in…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Bibliotherapy, Bilingual Students, Conference Reports
McCormick, Christine; Mason, Jana M. – 1986
A study was conducted to evaluate the impact of predictable stories given to children from low-income families over a two-year period. Phase one subjects were all the children (N=52) from four Headstart classes; phase two subjects were all the children who had participated in phase 1 and who entered kindergarten after their last year in Headstart.…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Early Intervention, Early Reading, Emergent Literacy
Dumont, Bernard – 1990
Post-literacy is all the means and activities that allow persons who have recently become literate to make use of their skills and to increase and deepen the knowledge acquired. There are many kinds of literacy. What they all have in common is the merciless test of the durability of literacy's effect: After 1, 2, or 5 years, what will the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs
1999
This document contains the 11 publications constituting the second stage of the Voyager program, which is a four-stage program that utilizes contemporary content and instructional approaches to teach the reading, writing, critical thinking, and communication skills that adults need in today's world and to take adult learners from the beginning…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques
