Rhyming tests have historically been used in the education system to assess reading readiness. English language learners (ELLs) have consistently scored poorly on these assessment tools. The current article examines a possible reason for this poor performance by ELLs. Specifically, the authors examined the relationship between semantic…

Demonstrates that discrimination training with verbal materials (words and letters) is generally more helpful than training with non-verbal forms. (RB)

A Russian method of teaching beginning reading using auditory discrimination of phonemes training was shown to be superior to two American methods. (JH)

A survey questionnaire consisting of 14 multiple-choice questions was prepared in order to measure parents' knowledge in the area of reading readiness skills and to determine their views of themselves as their children's teachers. The questionnaire was distributed to 160 middle-class parents residing in New Jersey. A total of 123 responded.…

This study surveyed all-day and half-day Ohio kindergarten teachers regarding their reading or reading readiness instructional practices. First grade teachers in the same schools assessed the preparation and experiences of their incoming students. A Chi Square analysis comparing all-day and half-day programs revealed more areas of similarity than…

To investigate the relationship between a kindergartner's prior experience with print and the child's scores on Marie Clay's Concepts About Print Test, a study examined 23 kindergarten students from an upper middle class neighborhood. A 27-item questionnaire was given to parents at the beginning of the school year, asking what their children knew…

Faculty Seminar in Reading Theory at Temple University of Education, Philadelphia May 8 and 9 1968

A cognitive-developmental approach to reading instruction for preschool children is presented in this document. Common misunderstandings about reading instruction are discussed, and examples of young children's reading readiness are used to illustrate how developmental readiness, self-motivation, and the influence of an appropriate learning…

DATA RELEVANT TO THE FOLLOWING THREE QUESTIONS WERE DRAWN FROM 27 INDIVIDUAL STUDIES COMPRISING THE COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM IN FIRST-GRADE READING INSTRUCTION--(1) TO WHAT EXTENT ARE VARIOUS PUPIL, TEACHER, CLASS, SCHOOL, AND COMMUNITY CHARACTERISTICS RELATED TO ACHIEVEMENT IN FIRST-GRADE READING AND SPELLING, (2) WHICH APPROACH TO INITIAL…

A PROGRAM PROVIDING SPECIAL ASSISTANCE TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL READERS IN BEAUMONT, TEXAS, IS DESCRIBED. THE ORGANIZATION AND MATERIALS FOR INSTRUCTION INCLUDE EXTENDED READINESS, BASAL INSTRUCTION, REMEDIATION IN GRADES 3, 4, 5, AND 6, AND CLINICAL INSTRUCTION. INSERVICE TRAINING, GRADING, EVALUATION AND PROBLEM AREAS ARE DISCUSSED. A SHORT…

OBJECTIVES OF THIS RESEARCH WERE TO (1) INVESTIGATE THE EFFECTS OF THE RESPONSE MODE IN PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION, (2) EXTEND THE THEORETICAL PRINCIPLES ON WHICH PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION IS BASED, AND (3) DEVELOP EFFECTIVE METHODS OF TRAINING RECOGNITION SKILL. A SERIES OF FOUR EXPERIMENTS, INVOLVING SIXTH-GRADE PUPILS, WERE REPORTED. IN EXPERIMENT 1,…

Since psycholinguistic research suggests that readers ascribe meaning by sampling grapho-phonemic, syntactic, and semantic text features, a study was conducted to investigate which cue strategies readers of different abilities utilized, and whether these strategies were mediated by levels of cognitive development. The subjects were 50 second grade…

An effective tool for motivating children to read and for reinforcing their reading skills, creative drama includes all forms of improvised drama--dramatic play, pantomime, puppet shows, and story dramatization--and all four of the major language arts--listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The use of creative drama activities lets children…

The Pre-reading Skills Program (PRS) was developed at the Wisconsin Research and Development Center for Cognitive Learning. Research on prereading skills was conducted from 1966 to 1969. The developmental period, 1970 to 1974, included piloting and field testing instructional materials, teachers' manuals, assessment instruments, and a management…