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Mattingly, Ignatius G.; Kavanagh, James F. – Linguistic Reporter, 1972
Descriptors: Alphabets, English, Language, Language Skills
Mason, George E.; Blanton, William E. – Elementary English, 1971
Discussion and results of a study made to indentify and quantify the reading interests of preschool children. (RB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Oral Reading, Prereading Experience, Preschool Children
Miller, Wilma H. – Calif J Educ Res, 1970
Amount of parent-child interaction was related to social class, although variation within classes was found. Home activities were not significantly correlated with reading readiness or achievement. Research was taken from a doctoral dissertation done by Wilma H. Miller under the direction of Dr. Ruth Strang at the University of Arizona, 1967. (DR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Environmental Influences, Family Environment, Kindergarten Children
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Frederick, E. Coston, Jr. – Reading Improvement, 1970
Suggests that readiness is less a function of teacher activity than of student activity and orientation. Recommends that the teacher make sure the student is interested, has a good learning set, and has an adequate experiential background. Bibliography. (RW)
Descriptors: Grade 9, Questioning Techniques, Reading Readiness, Reading Research
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Lange, Una A.; And Others – Reading Horizons, 1983
Describes the rationale for The Informal Reading-Language Test, then presents the test. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Acquisition, Language Skills, Primary Education
Wiser, Nell – Georgia Social Science Journal, 1983
Reading readiness should be an integral part of the learning process. Social studies must extend throughout the K-12 curriculum and should not be deferred or trivialized until students learn to read. Lists the efforts of the National Council for the Social Studies to strengthen the elementary social studies curriculum. (CS)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement, Learning Readiness
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Rabin, Annette T. – Reading Teacher, 1982
Contends that improved visual screening techniques can identify gross visual problems, but reading professionals should be aware of their limitations. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction, Reading Readiness
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Oren, Ditza L. – Journal of Educational Research, 1981
Three tests were conducted to contrast the ability of bilingual and monolingual children to label and relabel objects. The findings show that bilingual subjects were significantly better than monolingual subjects, supporting the view that preschool bilingual education stimulates children's cognitive development, and enhances their self-concept.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
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Sousley, Sharon A.; Gargiulo, Richard M. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1981
Examined the relationship between cognitive style and reading readiness in 104 kindergarteners before and after a visual discrimination treatment designed to modify conceptual impulsivity. Correlations were also obtained between errors and latencies on the Matching Familiar Figures Test and performance on the Metropolitan Readiness Test. No…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Conceptual Tempo, Kindergarten Children, Primary Education
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Cassidy, Jack; Vukelich, Carol – Reading Teacher, 1980
Indicates that a relatively small percentage of the gifted preschool population actually starts to read before starting kindergarten. (Author)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Early Reading, Gifted
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Scholl, Dennis M.; Ryan, Ellen Bouchard – Language and Speech, 1980
When kindergarten, second-, and fourth-grade children judged and repeated sentences that varied grammatically, the older children produced more accurate judgments, but no age differences were noted for repetition. Unbiased judgment accuracy correlated with prereaders' reading readiness scores, providing evidence for the relationship between the…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Education, Grammar, Knowledge Level
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Wiseman, Donna – Reading Horizons, 1980
Reviews research discussing early writing and invented spellings of young children as indicators of their readiness to learn to read and write. (MKM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Reading, Inventions, Language Acquisition
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Cleland, Craig J. – Reading World, 1981
Argues that Piagetian theory does not support the use of a code-breaking approach to teaching children to read prior to the advent of concrete operations. Suggests that primary instructional emphasis with these children should be placed upon the meaning-getting aspects of reading. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Decoding (Reading)
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Rogers, Cosby S.; Wolfle, Jane A. – Young Children, 1981
The model delineates a structure for summarizing the dimensions of a developmentally oriented prereading program. The structure provides a guide for planning the curriculum so that parents and teachers can arrange experiences that will help children develop higher levels of representation and more complex language structures, and extend their…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition, Models
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Goetz, Elizabeth M. – Young Children, 1979
Describes recommended procedures for assessing reading readiness and the teaching of beginning reading for three- and four-year-old children. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Informal Assessment, Preschool Education, Reading Instruction
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