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Peer reviewedBrinkman, Erwin H.; Sutton, Ruth H. – Reading Improvement, 1978
First graders taught with the initial teaching alphabet showed superior word recognition when compared with matched subjects taught in the traditional English alphabet instructional format. Retesting in third grade showed no significant differences between the groups, but indicated that auditory memory affected reading performance in both…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Download full textGoldbecker, Sheralyn S. – 1975
In discussing instructional approaches to reading, this book offers several definitions of reading and discusses teaching techniques, including early methods, the basal approach, and recent trends, among them the phonics approach, the linguistics approach, the language experience approach, the initial teaching alphabet, individualized reading,…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Primary Education
Pope, Francis H.; Medina, Edward – 1972
This manual, designed to follow "Spanish Alphabet Book 1," presents a Spanish phonetic reading program for children beginning to learn how to read. It contains an alphabet chart with pictures which symbolize words using the sounds of the respective letters. Other pages are devoted completely to the sounds of the vowels, reinforced with common…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Bilingual Education, Elementary School Students, Guides
Smith, Nila Banton; Strickland, Ruth – 1969
This pamphlet discusses some beginning approaches and technological approaches to reading instruction, and the relationship between children's language and reading. The first section looks at several approaches to reading instruction: "The Language Experience Approach,""The Initial Teaching Alphabet,""Linguistic Approaches to Reading,""Programed…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Language Experience Approach, Language Skills
DYKSTRA, ROBERT – 1967
THE RESULTS OF THE CONTINUATION OF THE COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM IN FIRST GRADE READING INSTRUCTION AT THE END OF SECOND GRADE ARE REPORTED. THE SECOND-GRADE PHASE WAS CONCERNED WITH (1) THE EXTENT TO WHICH READINESS SKILLS ARE RELATED TO READING ACHIEVEMENT AT THE END OF SECOND GRADE, (2) HOW THE VARIOUS METHODS OF INSTRUCTION COMPARE IN…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Grade 2, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Language Experience Approach
Pope, Francis H.; Medina, Edward – 1972
This manual, designed to follow "English Alphabet Book 1," presents an English phonetic reading program for children beginning to learn how to read. It contains an alphabet chart with pictures which symbolize words using the sounds of the respective letters. Other pages are devoted completely to the sounds of the vowels, reinforced with common…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Bilingual Education, Dictionaries, Elementary School Students
MAZURKIEWICZ, ALBERT J. – 1967
A 3-YEAR STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF BEGINNING READING INSTRUCTION WITH THE INITIAL TEACHING ALPHABET (ITA) AND WITH TRADITIONAL ORTHOGRAPHY (TO) ON PUPILS' READING ACHIEVEMENT IN BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA, IS REPORTED. THE SCORES OF KINDERGARTEN PUPILS ON THE LEE-CLARK READING READINESS TEST WERE USED TO INSURE THE HETEROGENEITY OF THE TREATMENT…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Inservice Teacher Education, Methods Research
Winkeljohann, Rosemary, Comp. – 1976
This selective bibliography is one of nine documents compiled to provide titles and descriptions of useful and informative reading documents which were indexed into the ERIC system from 1966 to 1974. The 190 entries in this section of the bibliography concern methods in teaching reading and are arranged alphabetically by author in one of the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education
Mazurkiewicz, Albert J. – 1973
Based on its use with first graders in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for an eleven year period, the Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.) appears to have a number of advantages for reading instruction. These years of research have indicated that the advantages of i.t.a. are that it permits the child to: advance more rapidly in reading and writing…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Creative Writing, Grade 1, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Downing, John A. – 1971
Four paradoxes appear in research on learning to read: (1) the ability to name letters is a good predictor of reading readiness, yet letter-naming training does not help children learn how to read; (2) visual discrimination is often better in poor readers than in good readers; (3) learning to read two languages is easier than learning to read one;…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Philp, Hugh; Goyen, Judith – 1973
This paper analyzes some of the conditions affecting the introduction of innovations in reading instruction in post-war Britain. The relationship between these innovations and research is explored. Section one presents background information and discusses possible causes for the influx of innovative techniques in reading instruction in the 1950s…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Developmental Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Language Experience Approach
Aaron, I. E. – 1968
Selected recent research studies are reviewed under the following headings: (1) perception pretraining for reading, (2) hierarchical arrangement of reading skills, (3) comparisons of suggested sequences of different basal series, (4) code versus meaning emphasis in beginning reading, and (5) the relative effectiveness of methods involving…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Individualized Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Language Experience Approach
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
Dykstra, Robert – 1968
During the first year of the program, 27 individual projects enrolling approximately 20,000 first-grade pupils were involved. Fifteen of these projects participated in a second-grade followup study. Some conclusions based on an analysis of data are (1) that prereading knowledge of letter names is the best single predictor of reading achievement in…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Kinesthetic Methods
Peer reviewedBackman, Joan; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1984
Examines the development of word recognition skills of 80 school children (grades two-four). Good beginning readers rapidly learn to recognize high frequency words from visual input alone and simultaneously expand and consolidate spelling sound correspondences. Younger and poor readers rely more on phonological information in word decoding.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Grade 3
