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Download full textByrd, E. Stephen – TEACHING Exceptional Children Plus, 2010
Families in India face many challenges in caring for and educating their children with disabilities. India has enacted a landmark special education law, Persons with Disabilities Act of 1995, which provides schooling and services to all children. For some students with disabilities, however, integrated and special schools are providing schooling.…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Reading Readiness, Mental Retardation, Young Adults
Direct linkLance, Keith Curry; Marks, Robbie Bravman – School Library Journal, 2008
Storytimes, lap-sit programs, and other services for young children are a major part of most public libraries' missions. According to children's librarians, these services play a significant role in preparing children for success as readers. This article discusses the positive relationship between children's services and early reading success by…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Public Libraries, Emergent Literacy, Grade 4
Yangin, Banu – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2009
The aim of this study is to explore the possible relationships between the readiness and reading and writing performances of a group of children who are first graders in an elementary school in Turkey. The states of children in terms of school readiness, sound-letter relationships, and phonemic awareness were determined individually during the…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Phonemic Awareness, Interrater Reliability, Multiple Regression Analysis
Hotulainen, Risto; Lappalainen, Kristiina; Ruoho, Kari; Savolainen, Hannu – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2010
During a 15-year longitudinal study, 31 Finnish students (risk group) who had been identified as having deficiencies in reading and writing readiness at pre-school through the German Breuer-Weuffen Differentiation Test were compared with their peers (n = 62) in order to study long-term differences that emerged at the starting point of the study.…
Descriptors: Writing Readiness, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables, Longitudinal Studies
GUNDERSON, DORIS V. – 1964
RESEARCH IS COMPILED ON THE TOPIC OF READING READINESS. NUMEROUS RESEARCH STUDIES HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT CHILDREN VARY GREATLY IN THE DEGREE TO WHICH THEY POSSESS "READING READINESS" AND THAT CHILDREN ARE DEFINITELY AIDED BY A READING READINESS PROGRAM. DISAGREEMENT EXISTS AMONG READING AUTHORITIES ON CERTAIN ASPECTS OF READINESS. AREAS…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Reading, Reading Development, Reading Instruction
EFRON, MARVIN – 1965
A "READING EYE" CAMERA PHOTOGRAPHED THE EYE MOVEMENTS OF 46 KINDERGARTEN CHILDREN OF MIDDLE-RANGE INTELLIGENCE. MOVING TARGETS WERE USED IN ORDER TO MEASURE OCULOMOTOR SKILLS--(1) OCULAR MOBILITY OR FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT OF THE EYES, (2) ACCURACY OF FIXATION, AND (3) VISUAL CONVERGENCE AND FUSION. SCORES FROM THE METROPOLITAN READINESS…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Grade 1, Kindergarten Children, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedSilberberg, Norman; And Others – The Elementary School Journal, 1968
A study was conducted to determine which subtests of the Gates Reading Readiness Tests have greatest predictive efficiency. An experiment to assess the effect of training in reading readiness on 222 kindergarten children (107 girls and 115 boys) provided the data for the research. The experimental group received 2 months' reading readiness…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Kindergarten, Predictive Measurement, Predictive Validity
Peer reviewedTokar, Edward B.; Holthouse, Norman D. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1977
The Metropolitan Readiness Tests were correlated with teacher ratings of reading readiness for a sample of kindergarten pupils. Correlations support the concurrent validity of the instrument. (JKS)
Descriptors: Kindergarten Children, Preschool Teachers, Primary Education, Reading Readiness
Peer reviewedSpaanenburg, Linda B. W. – Reading Teacher, 1984
Concludes that potential users of the Clymer-Barrett Readiness Test should exercise caution in drawing inferences or conclusions about children on the basis of anything other than raw score data associated with the measure. (FL)
Descriptors: Early Reading, Primary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Readiness
Peer reviewedPikulski, John J. – Reading World, 1974
Reviews several instruments frequently used in evaluating a pre-first grade child's readiness for learning to read with the focus on the extent to which published research has raised or resolved questions regarding the use of these instruments. (TO)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Prereading Experience, Preschool Children, Reading Readiness
Peer reviewedEvanechko, Peter; And Others – Research in the Teaching of English, 1973
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Linguistic Competence, Reading Achievement, Reading Readiness
Durkin, Dolores – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1970
The best way to help a child to learn to read is to give him a variety of opportunities to exercise his reading skills. (CK)
Descriptors: Reading Readiness, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedGold, Susan – Child Study Journal, 1987
Examined the reliability and validity of the Individual Reading Readiness Inventory (IRRI) and determined that it could be used with confidence as a measure to predict the extent to which children would profit from formal reading instruction in kindergarten. (Author/RWB)
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children, Predictive Measurement, Primary Education
Gunderson, Doris V. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1964
"Readiness for reading" is a phrase familiar to anyone interested in the teaching of reading. Readiness is an essential factor in any phase of learning. If the individual is to learn, some foundation for that learning must be established. Relatively few articles concerning the place of readiness in areas other than reading appear in educational…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Beginning Reading, Reading Readiness, Reading Readiness Tests
Diamant-Cohen, Betsy, Ed. – ALA Editions, 2010
Co-author of the popular titles "Booktalking Bonanza" and "The Early Literacy Kit", Betsy Diamant-Cohen brings together 18 examples of successful outreach partnerships that children's librarians and administrators can adapt to their own situations. Contributors from the U.S and Canada explain how they partnered with schools,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Readiness, Reading Programs, Outreach Programs
