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Download full textSmith, Carl B. – 1998
Intended for parents and teachers, this guide provides all the information needed to lead a first-grade child through 30 lessons or 30 weeks of learning for a beginning speller. The guide helps the child to learn to identify common, logical spelling patterns; leads the child quickly to more complex words; and aids him or her in becoming a…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 1, Primary Education, Spelling
Peer reviewedAnderson, Harry E., Jr.; Bashaw, W. L. – American Educational Research Journal, 1968
This experiment tested the hypothesis that stimulation in a given mode of discourse (e.g., the argumentative, or "A", mode of theme writing) will improve the quality of compositions written in that mode, but decrease the quality in another mode (e.g., the descriptive, or "D", mode). Ninety first-graders were required to write two themes in the "D"…
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Discourse Analysis, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Elementary Education
Liu, Shirley – 1979
Can the way children learn Chinese help them to learn English? In this study, it is noted that there is a possibility that despite the structural differences between them, there is transference from the learning of Chinese to the learning of English. Skinner's four major reinforcement schedules were used in this study to promote this transference…
Descriptors: Chinese, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Grade 1
Riemer, George – 1969
This book suggests that first graders could express themselves on paper more easily and naturally if they were taught the Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.). The chapters take up (1) the neglect of writing skills in a reading-oriented nation, (2) a comparison of the writing performance of students who learned the i.t.a. with that of students who…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Creative Expression, Creative Writing, English Curriculum
FOLTA, BERNARR – 1968
THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO COMPARE SENTENCE-COMBINING TECHNIQUES OF PUPILS USING THE INITIAL TEACHING ALPHABET (I.T.A.) WITH THE TECHNIQUES OF PUPILS USING TRADITIONAL ORTHOGRAPHY (T.O.). THE INVESTIGATION CONSIDERED--(1) WHETHER I.T.A. PROVIDES A LINGUISTIC ADVANTAGE IN THE WAY PUPILS ADD GRAMMATICALLY TO THEIR SENTENCES, (2) WHETHER THERE…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction, Elementary Education
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. – 1966
This handbook for pre-kindergarten through grade 2, one of a series of five language arts guides being developed (see also TE 000 798), specifies materials in listening, speaking, writing, reading, and literature. The program is aimed at urban children and attempts to provide for student differences by suggesting ways to adapt instruction and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Educational Media, English Instruction, English (Second Language)
