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Download full textMiller, Wilma H. – 1970
The existence of possible relationships between home environmental factors and children's reading readiness in kindergarten was sought in this study. The specific home environmental factors examined were maternal teaching style, maternal language style, children's daily schedules, and home prereading activities. A description of earlier studies…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Environmental Influences, Kindergarten Children, Mother Attitudes
Dearmin, Jennie – 1970
This Title I pilot program had two broad purposes: (1) to create a growing desire to read and (2) to introduce the skills that are necessary for success and satisfaction in reading. Since the children involved had limited experiential backgrounds, part of the program was geared to providing experiences through the type of classroom setting, the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Aid, Instructional Materials
Adelman, Howard S.; Feshbach, Seymour – 1970
Efforts toward predicting reading failure have been principally directed at assessing the child's strengths and weaknesses with reference to a limited number of reading correlates under conditions dissimilar to those in which he will be later expected to perform. Because this type of readiness model does not take into consideration a number of…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Kindergarten Children, Models, Predictive Measurement
Eitmann, Twila – 1969
An extended readiness unit plan for beginning first graders who demonstrated a limited degree of readiness in kindergarten is provided. The unit theme is the five senses, and the following sequence of presentation is used: sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste. Visual-perception activities receive the most emphasis. Included in procedures for…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Reading Materials
Ohnmacht, Dorothy C. – 1969
Two hundred and eight first graders were assigned to one of three treatment groups. Treatment A received initial instruction in letter names followed by sight words; treatment B received initial instruction in letter names and sounds followed by sight words; and treatment C received initial instruction in sight words followed by letter names and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Intelligence, Phonics
Burton, Jane, Comp.; Harris, Larry A., Comp. – 1969
Research on reading readiness is listed in two sections: Part 1, 1950 to the present, and Part 2, 1900-1949. Within each section citations are alphabetized according to author's last name and are followed by a descriptive abstract in Part 1 and a brief annotation in Part 2. A broad definition of reading readiness ranging from maturation as a…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Beginning Reading, Developmental Reading, Early Reading
Sepulveda, Betty R. – 1967
Contending that language is the single greatest block to developing a deprived Hispano child's full learning potential, this primary teacher proposes a re-examination of reading readiness procedures at the K-3 level. She maintains that disadvantaged children are not non-verbal, as they are often mis-categorized, but have tremendous difficulty…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Language Learning Levels, Nonstandard Dialects
Cunningham, Grover; Pierce-Jones, John – 1969
A 3-month pilot project was undertaken at the University of Texas to gain experience in administering the Cynthia Buchanan Language Program (Buchanan, 1967) and to test its effectiveness in making meaningful changes in the language development of disadvantaged Mexican-American preschoolers. A group of 114 Mexican-American children were chosen as…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Experimental Programs, Language Acquisition, Mexican Americans
Biemiller, Andrew – 1974
This document presents cross-sectional and longitudinal data relating the time required to read orally 50 unrelated letters, 50 unrelated words, and 100 words in text among first to sixth grade children and adults. Results include concurrent correlation between letter, word, and text times ranging between .18 and .92 with a median of .77.…
Descriptors: Adults, Elementary School Students, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement
Durkin, Dolores, Comp. – 1969
This 34-item annotated bibliography was compiled to help professional educators decide whether reading should be taught in kindergarten and, if so, how the instruction should be conducted. The references include varying and even opposing points of view. The authors of the articles are teachers, administrators, professors, and researchers. (TO)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Early Reading
Strickland, Dorothy S. – 1971
The exposure of linguistically different black kindergarten children to a special literature program was undertaken to test its efficacy as a preventive approach to reading failure. There were 94 subjects (45 in an experimental group and 49 in a control group) in four schools located in lower income urban areas. The program demonstrated a…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Youth, Kindergarten Children, Language Acquisition
Mosberg, Ludwig – 1970
A pretest/post-test procedure for measuring information gain from discourse was investigated together with several other aspects of discourse processing. The main purpose was to determine the effect of a pretest on discourse learning as measured by post-test performance. The study also investigated (1) serial position effects in learning from…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Grade 5, Learning, Pretesting
Rosner, Jerome – 1971
The purposes of the study were to determine whether phonic analysis training could be used to prepare children to be successful on the Auditory Analysis Test (AAT) of phonic skills and to then relate phonic knowledge to reading performance. Subjects were 40 first graders in suburban Pittsburgh who had attended kindergarten together. A group of 16…
Descriptors: Auditory Tests, Beginning Reading, Phonics, Reading Instruction
Dellinger, Harry Vaughn – 1971
The purpose of this study was to determine if significant differences in first grade achievement appeared among pupils who participated in an eight-week Summer Head Start Program and qualified pupils who did not participate. Both groups were divided into three subgroups according to scores on the Draw-A-Man Test. Each subgroup (high, middle, and…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Beginning Reading, Compensatory Education, Grade 1
Chapman, Robin S. – 1971
This report summarizes the findings of a February 1971 administration of a revised and expanded version of the Wisconsin Basic Prereading Skill Test to 138 kindergartners. The test battery being developed has two purposes: (a) the identification of prereading skill deficits in kindergartners for individualized curriculum planning, and (b) the…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Curriculum Development, Data Collection, Individualized Instruction
