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Hardy, Betty Vaught – 1975
The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of two instructional strategies for six phonic word-attack skills objectives. The study was undertaken in order to identify training procedures for helping teachers to become more effective at reading instruction. Written criterion-referenced phonic word-attack skills pretests were…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education
Gunning, Thomas Galvin – 1975
The main purpose of this study was to structure and compare two series of grapheme-phoneme correspondence and phonics generalizations. The first series of correspondences and generalizations is designed for seriously disabled readers in grades 3-9 and was derived through a phonemic analysis of the first 1,500 words of the Heritage list ( The…
Descriptors: Consonants, Decoding (Reading), Doctoral Dissertations, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Putnam, Mary J. – 1970
Recently those in the teaching profession have begun to realize the importance of listening skills. Of the 4 areas of language arts, listening is the primary skill. Phonics and listening are related in that there is a significant relationship between the child's ability to discriminate between letter sounds and his ability to listen. The child…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Training, Educational Objectives, Educationally Disadvantaged
Virginia State Reading Association. – 1975
The contents of this issue consist of articles concerning various facets of the teaching of reading. A guest article by Patrick Groff is entitled "Phonics Teachers: Join the Consumer Movement." Other articles focus on volunteers in public schools, the high risk child, the importance of good vision, the testing of tests, the…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Reading, Language Arts
Stewart, Charlene Kimbro – 1976
The slide presentation depicts movement activities through which children can perceive and form concepts, thus building cognitive skills in certain areas. The presentation is based on the fact that children interact with their environments through all their senses and benefit from perceiving through their kinesthetic senses. The areas presented…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Cognitive Objectives, Concept Formation, Educational Games
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District, Monterey, CA. – 1974
This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 115 disadvantaged children in first through third grade and includes black, Filipino, white, and Spanish-surname students. Begun in 1965, Total Reading is a complete language arts program for the primary grades which integrates the teaching of reading, writing, spelling,…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Language Arts, Phonics, Primary Education
Smith, Nila Banton – 1970
After a discussion of the code-emphasis versus phonics-emphasis controversy, strategies for improving the teaching of decoding skills are presented. It is recommended (1) that only those phonic generalizations that are of high utility be taught, and revisions of phonics generalizations be made to make them even more inclusive and useful; (2) that…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Beginning Reading, Computer Assisted Instruction, Context Clues
Bruininks, Robert H. – 1968
The main purpose of this study was to assess whether matching teaching methods to the auditory and visual perceptual strengths of second and third grade disadvantaged children would facilitate the learning of unknown words. A secondary objective sought to evaluate the relationship between a number of auditory and visual perception tests and a…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Disadvantaged Youth, Language Instruction, Perception
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, DC. Office of Citizen Participation. – 1970
This publication contains materials which have been developed, adapted, and utilized by school volunteer programs. Under program operation and coordination, there are: (1) plans for recruiting, speaking, and youth tutoring youth; and (2) sample application, request, and evaluation forms and guidelines for reading volunteers, school volunteer…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Elementary Schools, Instructional Materials
Fry, Edward; Emmer, Sara – 1971
The effects of the use of traditional series readiness workbooks and subsequent delay in beginning reading instruction on reading achievement at the middle and end of first grade were investigated. Fifty-seven percent of the children in a suburban school district used traditional readiness workbooks and of the remaining 43%, some used non-series…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Phonics, Reading Comprehension
Vail, Edward O. – 1969
This combination text-workbook is designed to provide the reader with the knowledge and skills necessary to teach problem readers how to read. Coupled with coordinated video tapes and student workbooks, the book can be used by teachers, parents, volunteers, tutors, and aides. Instructional material includes units on the reading process, learning…
Descriptors: Phonics, Phonology, Pronunciation Instruction, Reading Instruction
Piercy, Betty – 1971
There are physical, social, emotional, mental, and language factors influencing the development of readiness for independence in word recognition. It is important to let the chld gain a variety of experiences prior to school entrance, such as the parents reading aloud to the child and allowing him to follow the lines with his eyes while listening.…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Language Skills, Learning Readiness, Linguistics
Pope, Francis H.; Medina, Edward – 1972
This manual, designed to follow "Spanish Alphabet Book 1," presents a Spanish phonetic reading program for children beginning to learn how to read. It contains an alphabet chart with pictures which symbolize words using the sounds of the respective letters. Other pages are devoted completely to the sounds of the vowels, reinforced with common…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Bilingual Education, Elementary School Students, Guides
Schell, Leo M., Ed.; And Others – 1973
Only materials specifically designed to teach one or more of the following word identification skills were included in this booklet: sight words, context clues, phonic analysis, structural analysis, and dictionary skills. Materials for grades one through six are stressed, although a few materials suitable for secondary school students are listed.…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Developmental Reading, Elementary Education, Phonics
Gawarkiewicz, Patricia – 1972
The effectiveness of the impress method of reading instruction, in which the student and teacher read aloud simultaneously, was studied. The subjects were 24 fourth and fifth grade students from a New Jersey school, whose reading level was a year or more below grade placement (indicated by scores on a standardized achievement test) and who…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 4, Grade 5, Oral Reading
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