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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
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Powers, Meredith M.; Bobys, Aline R. – 1978
To make sense of unknown words encountered in their reading, children must relate what they read to their prior knowledge. It is important to use children's language in early reading instruction, through the use of language experience stories that provide children with a natural transition from oral to written language. Nursery rhymes may also be…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Creative Writing, Independent Reading, Language Experience Approach
Hall, Addie June Gray – 1975
A programmed-workbook cassette-delivered approach to letter and number recognition, "From Letters to Words," was compared with a traditional method of teaching letter recognition. The subjects were 153 disadvantaged first-grade students. The 75 experimental subjects were individually instructed by the investigators and teachers on the use of the…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Disadvantaged Youth, Doctoral Dissertations
Venezky, Richard L. – 1975
The systematic study of reading dates form the beginnings of experimental psychology in the late nineteenth century. Cattell measured reaction times for naming letters and words, investigated parallel processing, and compared legibilities of letters and printing types. From the end of the 1880s to the publication of Huey's 1908 text, reading…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Eye Movements, Eye Voice Span, History
Kurth, Ruth Justine – 1975
The primary purpose of this study was to provide empirical evidence for the assumption that if the essential subskills of word attack are mastered, then functional word attack ability will result. To obtain such evidence, the study was designed to test the functional word attack ability of 140 elementary school students who had been taught the…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Curriculum Guides, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education
Skapof, Jerome – 1975
The purpose of this study was to judge the viability of an operational approach aimed at assessing response styles in reading using the hypothesis of sensory hierarchical organization. A sample of 103 middle-class children from a New York City public school, between the ages of five and seven, took part in a three phase experiment. Phase one…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Dyslexia
Winkley, Carol K. – 1970
A study was made of nine reading tests, including both group and individually-administered measures, which are claimed to be chiefly diagnostic. Instruments analyzed were the following: Silent Reading Diagnostic Tests (Bond, Balow, and Hoyt), Botel Reading Inventory, Durrell Analysis of Reading Difficulty, Gates-McKillop Reading Diagnostic Tests,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Reading Comprehension, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Level
Elmira City School District, NY. – 1969
This comprehensive informal reading inventory was based on the Harper and Row Basic Reading Program. It includes four major sections: a reading attitude inventory, a phonics inventory, a word recognition checklist, and an oral and silent reading inventory. The reading attitude measure is a list of 25 questions to be read silently and answered with…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Elementary School Students, Informal Reading Inventories, Oral Reading
Schonell, Fred J.; Goodacre, Elizabeth – 1974
A scientific approach to the teaching of reading is provided in this book. The chapters are: "Psychological Factors in Word Recognition,""Factors in Reading Ability,""Preparatory Period in Learning to Read,""A Psychological Analysis of Reading Methods,""Organization of Reading in Infant Classes,""Organization of Reading in Junior…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Early Reading, Educational Psychology, Elementary Schools
Arnold, Richard D. – 1971
Thirty-two Afro-American and 50 Mexican-American seventh graders were randomly selected from a school located in a central Texas low socioeconomic environment. The subjects were administered the New Developmental Reading Tests, The Silent Reading Diagnostic Tests, and The California Short-Form Test of Mental Maturity. When the two groups were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Black Students, Conference Reports, Disadvantaged Youth
Goodman, Yetta M., Comp.; Goodman, Kenneth S., Comp. – 1971
The second edition of this annotated bibliography on linguistics, psycholinguistics, and the teaching of reading contains 40 percent more publications than the earlier edition, which covered works through 1967. The citations include a full range of points of view, topics, and authors' special fields and ask the readers to read a number of the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Curriculum, Dialects, Linguistic Theory
Short, N. J. – 1971
This combination test and rating form assesses expressive and receptive language skills, and auditory and visual skills in elementary school children with learning difficulties. An area indicating tests which have been administered to the student during the evaluation period is included. Some of the materials used are taken from TM 001 112. See TM…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Expressive Language, Knowledge Level, Language Skills
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