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The Role of Oral Language Revisited: A Comment on the NICHD Early Child Care Research Network (2005)
Bracken, Stacey Storch – Developmental Psychology, 2005
This article comments on the discussion of S. A. Storch and G. J. Whitehurst's literacy development model in the article by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Early Child Care Research Network (ECCRN). Specifically, this comment focuses on concerns raised by the NICHD ECCRN that Storch and Whitehurst's model does…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Literacy Education, Emergent Literacy, Early Reading
Harrison, Gina L. – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2005
This article reviews the Early Reading Diagnostic Assessment second edition (ERDA-2). The Early Reading Diagnostic Assessment, second edition (ERDA-2; The Psychological Corporation, 2003) assesses the acquisition of reading skills in children from kindergarten to Grade 3. The ERDA-2 is a collection of subtests adapted primarily from the Wechsler…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Reading Tests, Diagnostic Tests, Test Reviews
Aikens, Nikki L.; Barbarin, Oscar – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
In the present study, the authors use the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Cohort of 1998-1999, to examine the extent to which family, school, and neighborhood factors account for the impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on children's early reading. Through the use of hierarchical linear modeling techniques, growth curve models…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Early Reading, Reading Achievement, Family Characteristics
Trotter, Andrew – Education Week, 2007
A long-awaited federal study of reading and math software found no significant differences in standardized-test scores between students who used the technology in their classrooms and those who used other methods. The study compared classes overseen by teachers who used the technology-based products with those of other teachers who used different…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Computer Software, Evaluation, Instructional Effectiveness
Silva, Reena; Padakannaya, Prakash – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2007
The present study is about the early literacy skills among children in the lower kindergarten in India. The study seeks to identify the areas where inadequacy exists in the Indian scenario where the medium of instruction is not the first language/mother tongue of the child. The study found that children were proficient in the skills taught in…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Early Reading, Phonological Awareness, Foreign Countries
Plaza, Monique; Cohen, Henri – Dyslexia, 2007
We examined the development of phonological processing, naming speed, and visual attention in kindergarten and addressed the question of their contribution to reading and spelling in grade 1. Seventy five French-speaking children were administered seven tasks at the two phases of the study, and reading and spelling were assessed in grade 1. The…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Spelling, Early Reading, Written Language
Kim, Dongil; Kim, Woori; Lee, Kijyung – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2007
This study investigated the differences in four components of phonological awareness (i.e., judgment, deletion, blending, and substitution) and early reading ability across reading levels, and the correlation between phonological awareness (PA) and early reading ability in low and average-achievement groups. 27 students with reading difficulties…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Fluency, Early Reading, Phonology
Wolf, Patrick J. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2007
Media reports are rife with claims that students in the United States are overtested and that they and their education are suffering as result. Here I argue the opposite--that students would benefit in numerous ways from more frequent assessment, especially of diagnostic testing. The regular assessment of students serves critical educational and…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Early Reading, Testing, Standardized Tests
Spear-Swerling, Louise – Theory Into Practice, 2007
An extensive research base on beginning reading acquisition and reading difficulties, developed over the past few decades, has important implications for the teaching of reading. Unfortunately, much of this research does not appear to be reaching teachers, whose knowledge is essential for scientific findings about reading to benefit children. This…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Teacher Characteristics, Early Reading, Beginning Reading
What Works Clearinghouse, 2007
"Interactive Shared Book Reading" is a general practice that adults may use when reading with children and is intended to enhance young children's language and literacy skills. Typically, "Interactive Shared Book Reading" involves an adult reading a book to a child or a small group of children and using a variety of techniques…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, High Risk Students, Economically Disadvantaged, Early Reading
Stern, Sol – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2008
This report chronicles the record of the Reading First program as a research-based approach to teaching children to read, from early successes as a strict program whose funding would be distributed to states and districts using reading curricula whose effectiveness had been validated by scientific study, to one of eased eligibility that permitted…
Descriptors: Conflict of Interest, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Educational Research
Foorman, Barbara R.; York, Mary; Santi, Kristi L.; Francis, David – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2008
This study utilized early reading assessment data from a randomized trial of 210 urban and rural schools in Texas to examine contextual effects on risk prediction in first and second grade. The primary objective was to examine the roles of (a) individual differences, (b) the grade 1 classroom, and (c) the pairing of first and second grade teachers…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Reading Difficulties, Rural Schools, Mentors
Iaquinta, Anita – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2006
The purpose of this article was to illuminate for early childhood teacher practitioners how guided reading, as a research-based approach to reading instruction, could address the challenges of early reading instruction. The early years are the focus for the prevention of reading difficulties and research conducted over the past two decades has…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Reading Instruction, Early Childhood Education, Prevention
Gates, Arthur I. – 1969
Problems which will fact reading teachers in the future are discussed, and innovative possibilities are described. The following conclusions are reached. Varying environments create greater differences in children than existed previously, making individualized instruction necessary. Technological progress has opened new fields to education which…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Educational Media, Experimental Teaching, Individualized Instruction

Taylor, JoEllyn – Language Arts, 1977
A disproportionate emphasis on mechanics impairs students' reading by detracting from the focus they should have on making sense of the world. (DD)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Early Reading, Elementary Education, Reading