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Streb, Judith A. – 1984
The reading exercises in this workbook cover the general areas of letter recognition; basic phonics; word structure (including common phonograms, compound words, contractions, possessives, plural forms, and suffixes); vocabulary (including identifying picture names, rhyming words, and word meanings); study skills (including following directions,…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Oral Reading, Phonics, Primary Education
Download full textAllred, Ruel A. – 1984
The purpose of this booklet is to help teachers become familiar with current research-based spelling trends so that they can apply them in their classrooms. The first section of the booklet reviews current trends likely to influence spelling instruction, including practices related to the writing process, studying spelling from the learner's…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Instruction
Beck, Isabel L.; Block, Karen K. – 1976
The instruction provided by two beginning reading programs (the Ginn 720 and the Palo Alto 1973 reading programs) are analyzed and compared in this paper on the basis of such factors as phoneme-grapheme correspondence and phonics instruction, sight word learning, and the development of reading comprehension. The comparison focuses primarily on the…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Comprehension
Dauzat, Jo Ann – 1970
The purpose of this research was to determine if disadvantaged children in general prefer one particular method of learning word recognition tasks and if the learning methods preferences of disadvantaged children differ significantly from the learning styles of nondisadvantaged children. From 529 second graders, 20 disadvantaged children and 20…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 2, Kinesthetic Methods
Miller, Wilma H. – 1972
This book of reading is a compilation of periodical articles, most of which have been published in the last five years. Part 1 contains three articles which relate to the process of reading. Part 2 discusses reading readiness development at home and at school. Two articles discuss aspects of the home environment which best help prepare children to…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, Developmental Reading, Individualized Reading
BURMEISTER, LOU E. – 1966
THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF INDUCTIVE AND DEDUCTIVE APPROACHES TO THE INSTRUCTION OF WORD ANALYSIS TASKS WAS STUDIED. A NUMBER OF PHONIC AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS GENERALIZATIONS, APPLIED TO THE PRONUNCIATION OF WORDS ABOVE THE PRIMARY LEVEL IN DIFFICULTY, WERE PRESENTED TO EIGHTH- AND NINTH-GRADERS OF AVERAGE MENTAL ABILITY BUT WHO WERE WEAK IN…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Grade 8, Grade 9
Peer reviewedGreenwood, Scott C.; Bilbow, Melissa – Childhood Education, 2002
Explores and enumerates best practice in the upper elementary and middle grades regarding word identification, including phonics and other subskills. Identifies 16 word identification strategies to attain eventual comprehension, including focusing on consonants, word sorting, chunking, and word building. Identifies less effective strategies such…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education
Thomas, Ruth Fleming; Nagel, C. Van – 1988
A creative visualization approach to spelling and word recognition has been tried successfully with both adults and children. Unlike the traditional phonic approach to spelling, which is a left brain, analytical approach, the creative visualization approach uses the right brain. In addition, the approach eliminates the unpleasant associations with…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Beginning Reading, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Decoding (Reading)
MURPHY, HELEN A. – 1965
THE PROBLEMS EXAMINED IN THIS STUDY WERE (1) THE RELATIONSHIP OF PERCEPTION OF WORD ELEMENTS TO SIGHT VOCABULARY GROWTH, (2) THE EFFECT OF EARLY TEACHING OF A SPEECH-BASED PHONICS PROGRAM ON READING ACHIEVEMENT, AND (3) THE VALUE OF WRITING EMPHASIS IN THE SPEECH-BASED PHONICS PROGRAM. THREE READING PROGRAMS WERE INCLUDED IN THE STUDY, EACH USED…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 1
BROWN, DON – 1967
ONE HUNDRED FORTY-TWO GAMES AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHING REMEDIAL READING SKILLS ARE COMPILED IN THE AREAS OF PHONICS, FUNCTIONAL SKILLS, STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS, BLENDING, COMPREHENSION, FLUENCY AND RATE, AND WORD RECOGNITION. GAME PROCEDURES, MATERIALS NEEDED, AND DIRECTIONS FOR SIMPLE CONSTRUCTION ARE GIVEN. READILY AVAILABLE OR SIMPLY MADE…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary School Students, Instructional Materials, Language Fluency
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
Goetz, Elizabeth M.; Etzel, Barbara C. – 1978
Three reading procedures for learning isolated words--whole-word, syllable-blending, and phonics-blending--were examined to determine which was the most effective for preschool children. The six preschool children in the study were divided into two groups to assess the effects of the length and number of different letters in a series of training…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Reading, Learning Processes, Phonics
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
Wayne - Carroll Public Schools, Wayne, NE. – 1974
Presented in the language arts teaching guide, developed by Project Success (Nebraska) through a Title III grant for language handicapped elementary level students, are 33 basic lessons stressing phonics, a daily writing program, and ideas for creative writing. Noted are characteristics of students and goals of Project Success. The language…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Elementary School Students, Exceptional Child Education, Language Arts
Groff, Patrick – 1985
Intended to help dispel several unsupported "myths" about reading instruction, this book analyzes a selected group of teaching practices that have been supported by reading experts but not by research findings. The "myths" discussed in the first 12 chapters of the book are as follows: (1) phonics hinders comprehension; (2) unpredictable spelling…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Dictionaries, Educational Theories, Elementary Education
