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Hopkins, Lee Bennett; Arenstein, Misha – Elementary English, 1971
A list of 26 books used with children throughout the elementary grades to engage them in numerous ABC activities. (Author)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Books, Childrens Literature, Developmental Reading
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Lynn, Richard – Reading, 1970
Descriptors: Attention Span, Early Reading, Intelligence Quotient, Perceptual Development
Seymour, Dorothy – J Reading Spec, 1969
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Correlation, Early Reading, Infant Behavior
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Strickland, Dorothy S. – Childhood Education, 1979
A position paper which discusses different aspects of reading and its relation to school, home, and lifelong activities, and suggests instructional implications. (CM)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cognitive Processes, Early Childhood Education, Early Reading
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Lovett, Maureen W. – Child Development, 1979
A sample of 80 first- and second-grade children selected to represent four levels of reading competence were tested in their recognition of semantic, syntactic, and lexical change in sentences previously decoded during prose reading. (JMB)
Descriptors: Early Reading, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Prose
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Manning, Maryann; And Others – Young Children, 1988
Addresses the issue of what happens to developing readers and spellers when they are given phonics instruction by describing the experiences of one six-year-old girl who received phonics instruction in kindergarten. (BB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Case Studies, Early Reading, Kindergarten
Healy, Jane M. – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1990
The rapid, disjointed, and vivid style of Sesame Street may impede rather than promote progress toward literacy and the development of voluntary attention. It robs children of the ability to create mental pictures. Contends that it is a failure as an instructional medium. (DM)
Descriptors: Attention, Childrens Television, Dysgraphia, Early Childhood Education
Population Education in Asia and the Pacific Newsletter and Forum, 1990
Produced by the Department of Non-Formal Education of Thailand, this illustrated booklet supports the National Literacy and Quality of Rural Life Year Campaign. Written in poetry form and geared for neoliterates, this booklet cites the pros and cons of both small and large families without encouraging preference for either size family. (JJK)
Descriptors: Early Reading, Elementary Education, Environmental Education, Family Planning
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McCarthey, Sarah J. – Journal of Educational Research, 2000
Examines studies on the nature and function of literacy activities at home, identifying barriers contributing to the separation of home and school, particularly for children from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds (e.g., different literacy practices and discourse patterns). Ways to facilitate home-school connections are presented. Studies conducted…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Elementary Education, Family Influence, Literacy Education
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Developmental Psychology, 2005
What is the role of oral language in reading competence during the transition to school? Is oral language in preschool best conceptualized as vocabulary knowledge or as more comprehensive language including grammar, vocabulary, and semantics? These questions were examined longitudinally using 1,137 children from the National Institute of Child…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Primary Education, Semantics, Grammar
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Ortiz, Robert W.; Ordonez-Jasis, Rosario – Reading Teacher, 2005
Early reading experiences in the home prepare children for formal literacy instruction when they enter school. Most practitioners and researchers support the need for educational initiatives for increasing parents' involvement in early literacy. However, there is less of a consensus about how to develop family literacy models for Latino families.…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Emergent Literacy, Early Reading, Literacy Education
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Hester, E.; Hodson, B. W. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2004
Phonological awareness reflects the strength of a child's ability to represent linguistic information cognitively at the phonological level. Although the role of phonological awareness in early reading decoding has been well documented, its relationship to other factors affecting reading decoding has yet to be fully examined. In this study, the…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Emergent Literacy, Memory, Reading Skills
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Sulentic-Dowell, Margaret-Mary; Beal, Gloria D.; Capraro, Robert M. – Reading Psychology, 2006
Three assumptions frame this study (a) preservice teachers who enjoy reading foster positive attitudes towards reading, (b) life-long reading habits are developed during formative years, and (c) these preservice teachers convey reading strategies that encourage success across content strands. This study examines the relationship between literacy…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Comprehension, Reading Attitudes, Reading Habits
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Deckner, Deborah F.; Adamson, Lauren B.; Bakeman, Roger – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2006
Fifty-five children and their mothers were studied longitudinally from 18 to 42 months to determine the effects of home literacy practices, children's interest in reading, and mothers' metalingual utterances during reading on children's expressive and receptive language development, letter knowledge, and knowledge of print concepts. At 27 months,…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Mothers, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition
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Baker, Scott K.; Gersten, Russell; Haager, Diane; Dingle, Mary – Elementary School Journal, 2006
Validation of a classroom observation measure for use with English Learners (ELs) in grade 1 was the focus of this study. Fourteen teachers were observed during reading and language arts instruction with an instrument used to generate ratings of instructional quality on a number of dimensions. In these classrooms we assessed the reading…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grade 1, Early Reading, Teaching Methods
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