A summer project designed to teach reading readiness skills to disadvantaged preschoolers is described. Thirty five five-year-olds attended the program three hours a day, five days a week, for six weeks. The Vanguard Instructional Model used involved contingency management, individualized instructional materials and the extensive use of student…

This book is intended primarily for classroom teachers and other personnel who work directly with teachers in selecting reading readiness tests or achievement tests. The first chapter lists and briefly explains the criteria used by the authors in reviewing the tests included. These criteria are concerned with norms, standardization, objectivity,…

GRADES OR AGES: Kindergarten. SUBJECT MATTER: Reading. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide has five main sections; 1) comprehension skills; 2) attitudes and interests; 3) word recognition skills; 4) study skills; and 5) oral expression. Each section has sub-sections giving an overall description of the topic, a list of comprehension…

Traditionally reversal errors in reading and writing have carried serious implications in primary grade education of the need for special education intervention and diagnosis. (Author/MH)

Testing of a group of kindergarten children generally supported the hypotheses that (1) children from schools in higher socioeconomic areas would have significantly more advanced concepts of language than children in lower socioeconomic areas and (2) that this conceptual development would be correlated with more conventional measures of reading…

This paper reports a small scale study which investigated the agreement between two measures of reading and one of receptive vocabulary in a sample of first-year junior pupils. (Author/JDH)

Discusses the concept of "emergent literacy," contrasting this term with the concept of reading readiness. Proposes that a program of kindergarten instruction related to literacy should provide opportunities for children to interact successfully with print. (MM)

Expresses a joint statement of concerns about present practices in pre-first grade reading instruction and makes recommendations for improvement. Guidelines and recommendations are the result of a collaboration among six national organizations. (KS)

Discusses children's self-image and its relationship to language acquisition and reading readiness. (DD)

A review of ERIC documents. (DD)

Concludes that there is a marked dimensional preference shown in most children by kindergarten, that there are relationships between dimensional dominance and letter matching, and that children program from color dominance to form dominance and then to mixed responding. (Author/RB)

This report, the sixth in a series developed by the Education Commission of the States (ECS) examining the impact of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act 2001, discusses Reading First, which replaces the Reading Excellence Act. The report states that Reading First, a voluntary program, aims at having all children achieve reading proficiency by the…

Article asks how will the transition of learning one language and the spelling appropriate to it be applicable to skill in a second language. (RK)