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Simich-Dudgeon, Carmen – 1989
A review of selected research studies and practices on the teaching of literacy to limited English proficient (LEP) students suggests that there is considerable variation in the way literacy is defined. Several methods currently being used to develop LEP students' literacy skills are reviewed. Many LEP students continue to be taught reading skills…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Children, Daily Living Skills, Educational Strategies
Matz, Karl A. – 1989
A study demonstrated that young children who have difficulty with phonics can be taught to read through other methods, that phonics is only one of the many useful strategies that a child can employ, and that many contextual strategies are easier to learn and more reliable than phonics. A case study was conducted during an intervention with a young…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Case Studies, Emergent Literacy, High Risk Students
Adams, Marilyn Jager – 1990
A child's success in learning to read in the first grade appears to be the best predictor of his or her ultimate success in schooling as well as all of the events and outcomes that correlate with that. Yet, across the research literature reviewed for a recent book, "Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning about Print," children's…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Educational Trends, Emergent Literacy, Literature Reviews
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1986
Consisting of testimony and written statements presented to the House Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education, this report deals with the problem of illiteracy in the United States. Proceedings begin with a statement by Charles M. Richardson of Sperry Corporation, an education consultant and former reading tutor; Charles J.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement, Educational Legislation
Shanahan, Timothy – 1984
To determine whether reading and writing are as closely related as commonly supposed, a study estimated the amount of overlap that exists between several components of reading and writing knowledge. Data were obtained from 256 second graders and 251 fifth graders. Reading measures included tests of phonics (word knowledge), vocabulary (lexical…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Grade 2
Treiman, Rebecca – 1987
While previous studies have investigated children's awareness of two units within words--syllables and phonemes, there is experimental evidence that children are also aware of intrasyllabic units (units intermediate in size between the syllable and the phoneme), and that these units may be useful for teaching phonological awareness and reading.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Language Acquisition, Language Research
Alvermann, Donna E. – Georgia Journal of Reading, 1986
This critical review of "Becoming a Nation of Readers" states that the Commission on Reading report contains sensible and practical recommendations, though it is not wholly representative of all the available research on reading and it contains occasional insensitivities to the potential problems within its recommendations. The first…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Corrective Reading, Literacy Education, Phonics
Wallach, Michael A.; Wallach, Lise – 1976
The rationale, development, and implementation of a reading program designed to teach disadvantaged children the skills prerequisite to learning to read are discussed in this paper. Of particular importance are skills in the recognition and manipulation of basic speech sounds, phonemes. The first of the program's three parts takes two and one-half…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Conference Reports, Disadvantaged Youth, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Whyte, Jean; Harland, Rosemary – 1981
A study investigated the proposition that males have a predominant tendency to encode visually when reading, whereas females tend to encode phonologically. Arabic symbols were used to teach a group of 24 college students to "read." Subjects were assigned randomly to one of two conditions: learning the symbols as "letters" one by one with the aid…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Higher Education, Learning Modalities
Vine, Ruth – 1978
The applicability of phonics generalizations, particularly the rule "When two vowels go walking the first one does the talking and the second one is silent," is examined in this paper. The first section reports on a study of the applicability of the two vowel rule to words in first- and second-grade basal readers and on a core vocabulary list; the…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 1
Beck, Isabel L. – 1979
Approaches that appear most effective for teaching beginning reading to children who are having difficulty learning to read are discussed in this paper. Research indicates that a code-emphasis method produces the best results. To determine which type of code instruction is most appropriate, reading programs were analyzed in terms of content,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Phonics
Young, Savannah Miller; And Others – 1979
This booklet contains over 35 sample student activities designed by teachers to support the development of prerequisite skills for reading comprehension and to offer opportunities for mastery learning. Activities are suggested in the areas of letter/sound relationships, word recognition, experiential concept development, cognitive concept…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Language Experience Approach
Ferguson-Florissant School District, Ferguson, MO. – 1979
This guide was developed for parents of young children to help them develop their child's readiness to learn to read and to help them teach beginning reading skills to their child. Background information on the reading process and a quiz entitled, "are you preparing your child to read?" are presented. Activities are suggested for reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Early Reading, Learning Activities
WITTCOFF, HAROLD; AND OTHERS – 1966
THIS COMPILATION OF REPORTS, DISCUSSIONS, AND REVIEWS OF SPECIFIC METHODS OF TEACHING READING IN THE ELEMENTARY GRADES INCLUDES A DESCRIPTION OF THE READING PROGRAM IN MINNEAPOLIS. THE METHODS INCLUDED IN THE REPORT ARE THE PHONIC-FIRST METHOD, THE USE OF BASAL READERS, THE LINGUISTIC APPROACH, THE INITIAL TEACHING ALPHABET, THE…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Individual Instruction
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
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