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Berger, Allen – 1985
None of the current issues in education have much to do with education; they are politically, socially, or economically based, and opinions tend to be presented as facts. For example illiteracy statistics are inflated. Virtually all children have the opportunity to learn to read and write at school, and the majority of them do. Neither is the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Policy, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Smith, DeWayne – 1987
Noting that both comprehension and decoding are used by effective readers and that both processes should be taught, this concept paper focuses on effective strategies for reading instruction. Following an introduction, the first section focuses on the conclusions drawn about word identification by reading researchers. Subsections include…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Phonics, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Sorenson, Nancy L. – 1982
The vocabulary lists from five basal readers were examined in an effort (1) to determine what information is taught in the form of phonic generalizations in current, primary-level basal readers; (2) to examine intraprogram reliability of those generalizations; and (3) to determine whether the content of generalization instruction had changed since…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Content Analysis, Language Patterns
Fouse, Anna Beth Forrester – 1976
A random sample and a sample of retarded readers were selected from fourth- and sixth-grade students in the Grand Prairie Independent School District. All students were tested in the areas of auditory perception, visual perception, and phonics abilities. The tests administered were: two subtests from the Woodcock Reading Mastery Test; four…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Auditory Perception, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education
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Mills, Lewis Sprague – Gorham Press, 1920
This manual for teachers sets forth in some detail the direct method of teaching children to read. It has proved successful to a very large degree in the hands of teachers with no experience or teaching preparation. This manual includes: (1) History of the Method; (2) The Method Explained; (3) Principles Underlying the Method; (4) Material Needed…
Descriptors: Teaching Guides, Direct Instruction, Reading Instruction, Educational History
South San Francisco Unified School District, CA. – 1980
Project Success Controlled Optimal Reading Experience (SCORE) is a sequential phonics program designed to teach students of any age who are deficient in basic word attack skills or who are reading below the fourth grade level. Performance objectives of the program include student mastery of sound blending, short and long vowels, blends,…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Paraprofessional School Personnel, Phonics
Richardson, Ellis; And Others – 1979
A model for the measurement of reading skills was used as the basis for the development of the Decoding Skills Test. The model emphasizes that decoding skills are based on one of two processes: word recognition through phonic/linguistic decoding or through basal word recognition. Word lists appropriate for the elementary grades were used to…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Oral Reading, Phonics
DUNN, LLOYD M.; AND OTHERS – 1967
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THREE APPROACHES TO TEACHING BEGINNING READING AND THE INFLUENCE OF AN ORAL LANGUAGE STIMULATION PROGRAM ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN IS REPORTED IN THE FIRST-YEAR REPORT OF A 2-YEAR INTERVENTION STUDY. SUBJECTS WERE 608 FIRST-GRADE PUPILS FROM 12 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN AN INNER-CITY AREA. THE THREE EXPERIMENTAL…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Disadvantaged, Initial Teaching Alphabet
BOERCKER, MARGUERITE; RAMSEY, WALLACE – 1967
A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF ATTENDING AN 8-WEEK HEADSTART PROGRAM DURING THE SUMMER PRIOR TO THE FIRST GRADE ON THE FIRST-GRADE READING ACHIEVEMENT OF 152 PUPILS IN SCOTT COUNTY, KENTUCKY, INDICATED A NEED FOR A CLASSROOM CONTINUATION OF THE EXPERIENCE APPROACH IN READING METHODS. AT THE OPENING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, THE HEADSTART PUPILS WERE MIXED IN…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged, Grade 1, Language Experience Approach
ROGERS, JOHN R.; AND OTHERS – 1965
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR THE CLASSROOM TEACHER OF READING ARE REPORTED BY PARTICIPANTS OF AN INSTITUTE ON THE APPLICATION OF LINGUISTICS TO SPELLING AND READING INSTRUCTION. CHAPTER 1, "PHONEMICS AND ORTHOGRAPHY IN READING INSTRUCTION," TRACES SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIPS AMONG PHONEMICS, PHONETICS, PHONICS, ORTHOGRAPHY, AND READING INSTRUCTION.…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Dialects, Grammar, Graphemes
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Johnson, Dale D.; And Others – 1978
Three studies were conducted as part of a series designed to identify the subskills of word identification that correlate most highly with reading comprehension and to examine various methods of assessing these subskills. In the first study, the prototype of a decoding (word identification) test was administered to 282 first, third, and fifth…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
McGuire, Marion L. – 1968
A statewide assessment study of reading programs in Rhode Island is described. Data concerning the history of the primary reading program of the 1965-66 fourth-grade class were gathered; a status study of the reading programs throughout the elementary grades for that year was conducted. Principals' and teachers' opinions on the requirements for a…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Environmental Influences, Phonics, Reading Comprehension
Bloomer, Richard H.; Bernazza, A. M. – 1967
A linguistic reading-typewriting program for beginning readers is described. It is based on the idea that combining reading and typing into a single program allows the child the benefit and motivation of learning to read that which he writes and to write that which he reads. It provides the child an opportunity to develop his own experience…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Beginning Reading, Context Clues, Linguistics
Beck, Isabel L. – 1977
This paper proposes that phonics and meaning instruction in beginning reading programs can be designed to be mutually supportive. The first section outlines attempts to modify a commercially available reading program in order to provide useful phonics instruction strategies. Students showed strong gains on achievement tests after implementation of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Phonics, Primary Education
Mallett, Jerry J. – 1975
Over 100 simple, easy-to-make activities for building specific reading skills in six areas, readiness, sight word knowledge, phonetic analysis, structural analysis, comprehension, and critical reading, are presented for the elementary teacher to use as tools in individualizing reading instruction. Each game activity has been tested and complete…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Educational Games, Elementary Education, Individualized Reading
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