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Far West Lab. for Educational Research and Development, San Francisco, CA. – 1974
The materials in this teaching unit are designed to improve the skills of second grade students in following directions, understanding and following a sequence of actions, and recognizing common word structures (compound words, prefixes, and suffixes). Each section of the unit contains a brief overview of the skill area, a list of performance…
Descriptors: Cognitive Objectives, Context Clues, Grade 2, Mastery Learning
Download full textWallach, Michael A.; Wallach, Lise – 1976
The rationale, development, and implementation of a reading program designed to teach disadvantaged children the skills prerequisite to learning to read are discussed in this paper. Of particular importance are skills in the recognition and manipulation of basic speech sounds, phonemes. The first of the program's three parts takes two and one-half…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Conference Reports, Disadvantaged Youth, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Carroll, Bonnie A.; Drum, Priscilla A. – 1982
Two experiments examined the effects of definition and synonym as context clues embedded in three types of text (fiction, exposition, and science). It was predicted that (1) type of text would influence clue usage; (2) difficulty of the text, based on increasingly more detailed complex information, would interfere with the use of clues; (3) clue…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Context Clues, Expository Writing, Fiction
Boraks, Nancy; Schumacher, Sally – 1981
A study was conducted to describe factors influencing the acquisition of facilitating and inhibiting reading strategies by adult beginning readers (ABRs) in order to generate potential guidelines for instruction. Using an adapted form of the Goodman and Burke taxonomy of oral reading miscues as initial framework, the investigators described ABRs'…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Ethnography
Johnson, Dale D.; And Others – 1981
In presenting a historical overview of trends in vocabulary research, this paper emphasizes the importance of word knowledge as a critical component in reading comprehension. It describes research examining current psychological and pedagogical models as they relate to vocabulary knowledge, and explores vocabulary research in the area of specific…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Cultural Influences, Educational Trends, Learning Theories
Maguire, Thomas O.; And Others – 1974
To determine if children could discriminate among the 24 ways in which words possess meaning (logico-semantic relationships) defined by Evanechko and to see if this ability changed over time, 570 fifth, eighth, and eleventh graders were presented the task of sorting decks of cards containing examples of the 24 categories. Although it was not…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education
Wigfield, Allan; Asher, Steven R. – 1978
To assess the effects of age differences, type of task, intelligence (IQ), and reading achievement on referential communication performance, third and fifth grade children were asked to communicate messages for three types of tasks: word pairs, picture descriptions, and school-locations directions. The latter was specifically designed to assess…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Communication Research, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Beck, Isabel L. – 1979
Approaches that appear most effective for teaching beginning reading to children who are having difficulty learning to read are discussed in this paper. Research indicates that a code-emphasis method produces the best results. To determine which type of code instruction is most appropriate, reading programs were analyzed in terms of content,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Phonics
Young, Savannah Miller; And Others – 1979
This booklet contains over 35 sample student activities designed by teachers to support the development of prerequisite skills for reading comprehension and to offer opportunities for mastery learning. Activities are suggested in the areas of letter/sound relationships, word recognition, experiential concept development, cognitive concept…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Language Experience Approach
Gillet, Jean Wallace – 1979
Three recent studies have focused upon prereading children's concepts of written language, what they think words are, and how they understand the concept of a word. These explorations of young children's early attempts to understand and produce writing have important implications for the preschool and primary classroom. R. D. Morris found that…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Early Childhood Education, Educational Research
Alabama State Dept. of Education, Montgomery. Div. of Instructional Services. – 1976
Intended for use in inservice workshops for health and physical education teachers, this guide contains suggestions designed to help these teachers integrate the teaching of reading skills into their curricula. Sample activities are provided to demonstrate how the physical education teacher can use different methods and strategies to help students…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education, Health Education
ROMER, ROBERT D. – 1966
A GUIDE FOR TEACHING PHONIC AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS AND OTHER WORD PERCEPTION SKILLS AT THE PRIMER LEVEL THROUGH GRADE 6 PROVIDES DEFINITIONS, EXAMPLES, AND SUGGESTIONS FOR THE TEACHER. INFORMATION IS PRESENTED WITHIN SIX CATEGORIES--(1) THE TOTAL READING PROGRAM, EMPHASIZING WORD PERCEPTION SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES, LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDINGS,…
Descriptors: Educational Media, Elementary Education, Phonetic Analysis, Phonics
Juel, Connie – 1979
A study was undertaken to investigate the extent to which reading by students with varying skill levels is a text-driven or a concept-driven process; that is, it examined the conditions under which readers used context to identify words. The 72 second and third grade students in the study read target words that varied in decodability, frequency,…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Content Area Reading, Context Clues, Grade 2
Carney, John J. – 1979
The document reviews research data, particularly group research, relating to teaching reading to the mildly retarded child. The paper examines the following areas: word recognition/meaning (context, decoding/phonics, sight words); letter acquisition and discrimination; comparative studies of methods and techniques; reading profiles of retarded…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation
Sheldon, William D.; And Others – 1967
The reading achievement of 376 second graders and the performances in oral reading and creative writing of 150 randomly selected subjects taught by three different methods were studied. All three approaches (basal reader, modified linguistic, and linguistic) were effective for reading instruction at the second-grade level. The largest differences…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Creative Writing, Linguistics, Oral Reading
