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Direct linkTarar, Jessica M.; Meisinger, Elizabeth B.; Dickens, Rachel H. – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2015
The TOWRE-2 was developed to provide an efficient measure of two essential wordlevel reading skills, sight word reading and phonetic decoding skills. The Sight Word Efficiency (SWE) subtest assesses the number of real words that an individual can read from a vertical list within 45 s. This subtest is designed to measure the size of an individual's…
Descriptors: Word Study Skills, Sight Method, Phonetics, Decoding (Reading)
Newlands, Michelle – Reading Teacher, 2011
Making spelling instruction effective, fun, practical, and meaningful is a challenge faced by many teachers. Spelling is traditionally taught with prepackaged word lists using a test-practice-test method, which results in little transfer to independent word use. Because spelling is an important component and gauge of literacy skills, students need…
Descriptors: Spelling, Word Lists, Literacy, Spelling Instruction
Peer reviewedAxelrod, Jerome – Reading Horizons, 1976
Discusses word attack and comprehension skills and provides a list of word analogies. (RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Word Lists
Peer reviewedKurth, Ruth Justine – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1978
Evaluates empirically a skill-oriented approach to teaching word attack such as that prescribed by the Wisconsin Design for Reading Skill Development with the desired outcome of functional reading ability. (HOD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Research, Reading Skills, Word Lists
Johnson, Carole M. – 1977
Training tutors to help students with study skills and content-reading strategies, as well as to assist with course work, can broaden the role of tutors. Handouts for tutors have been developed that adapt traditional reading/study strategies for use in specific disciplines, sometimes with specific textbooks in mind. Tutors should also emphasize…
Descriptors: College Students, Content Area Reading, Higher Education, Learning Activities
Sakiey, Elizabeth; Fry, Edward – 1979
This book presents the 3,000 most frequently used words in rank and alphabetical orders. The words were derived from the American Heritage word list of the approximately 87,000 most frequent words in a count of 5 million running words sampled from a variety of elementary and secondary level curriculum materials, magazines, and books. The book…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Instruction, Reading Level
Homer, Sandra – 1978
One in a series of four guides developed for use by parents of children enrolled in a Title I reading improvement program, this booklet provides learning activities and suggestions for improving the reading abilities and skills of junior high/middle school children. The areas covered are homework, reading comprehension, word study skills, word…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Games, Guides, Homework
Mallett, Jerry J. – 1976
This publication provides games for teachers to make and to use with students in grades four through eight, for the purpose of teaching specific reading skills. The games are organized according to several developmental reading skills: sight word knowledge, phonetic analysis, structural analysis, context-clue use, literal comprehension,…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Context Clues, Critical Reading, Guides
