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Burie, Audrey Ann; Heltshe, Mary Ann – 1975
Designed for use in a self-contained or open space classroom with students from pre-school through age 8, this book contains: reading readiness games for developing visual motor skills, visual discrimination, and perception, and for promoting mental development; basic reading skills games that teach word perception, phonetic analysis, structural…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Content Area Reading, Early Childhood Education, Educational Games
Download full textTrust Territory of the Pacific Islands – 1974
An evaluation of the English Language Skills Acceleration Project, a program used in ninth-grade reading instruction in two high schools in the Marshall Islands, is provided in this report. Included are a description of the program and its activities, a discussion and comparison of test results, an evaluation of the behavioral objectives with…
Descriptors: Acceleration, Grade 9, Language Arts, Language Skills
Harty, Kathleen Fahey – 1975
The purpose of this study was to compare the characteristics of kindergarten readers with those of children who entered kindergarten but could not read. One hundred thirty children were identified as readers and 130 children were randomly selected from each of the readiness and non-readiness groups in the Madison, Wisconsin public schools. A…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Early Childhood Education, Failure, Kindergarten Children
Ahring, Judy Charlene – 1975
The problem of this psychometric investigation was developed as four major areas for study: (1) a comprehensive processing model was designed and tested; (2) prediction of academic achievement, including group-administered versus individually-administered instruments, was investigated; (3) memory processes relative to schools and achievement…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 1
Scott, Mari Gumm – 1974
The Kindergarten Home Learning Kit was developed to ameliorate the educational deficit of disadvantaged kindergarten children by providing toys and learning materials to work with in the home. Each of the eight sequential kits also contains an illustrated instructional letter to the parents. Two groups of 25 disadvantaged kindergarten children…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Doctoral Dissertations, Early Childhood Education, Early Experience
Speiss, Madeleine F.; And Others – 1970
This booklet is an instructional aid for teacher trainers. Its aim is to help trainers familiarize teachers with the theory and proper use of the Reinforced Readiness Requisites (RRR) program, a series of 145 lessons designed to give standard kindergarten and first grade entry and reading readiness skills to Mexican-American and Indian children.…
Descriptors: American Indians, Basic Skills, Classroom Observation Techniques, Cultural Influences
Pierce-Jones, John; Cunningham, Grover – 1969
This research was designed to assess the effects of various curriculum materials and different levels of teacher training on the cognitive, intellectual, and language development of full-year Head Start children who were given intensive language training. The curriculum materials used were the "Sullivan-Buchanan Readiness Program," the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Evaluation
Dykstra, Robert – 1970
The relationships between prereading measures of auditory discrimination, letter knowledge, and intelligence and reading ability were investigated for pupils who completed grades 1 and 2 in four different types of instructional programs--conventional basal reading programs, i/t/a programs, language-experience approaches, and code-emphasis…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Grade 2
Harrison, Grant V.; Brimley, Vern – 1971
The feasibility of devising a highly individualized reading program for low-achieving 6-year-old children centering on structured tutoring was investigated. The 33 subjects from three schools would enter first grade in the fall and were considered low achievers on the basis of kindergarten testing. Upper-grade elementary students volunteered to…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cross Age Teaching, Grade 1, Individual Instruction
McNinch, George – 1970
A study was conducted to determine the relationship between auditory perceptual skills and first-grade reading success when readiness and intelligence measures were used in conjunction with auditory skills assessments. Sex differences were also considered. Six boys and six girls were randomly selected from each of 10 first-grade classrooms.…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Grade 1
Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA. Head Start Evaluation and Research Center. – 1968
To measure the effects of group programed instruction on aspects of reading in Head Start children, the Sullivan Associates Readiness in Language Arts series was used with approximately 15 children in each of five Head Start classes. An equal number served as controls. Pretests and posttest were Lee-Clark Readiness Test, Murphy-Durrell Analysis,…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Educational Research
Stanchfield, Jo M. – 1969
A 6-year research project which investigated sex differences in beginning reading in the Los Angeles City Schools is reported. In 1962-63 approximately 550 first-grade children were taught reading in sex-segregated groups. It was found that boys grouped together did not gain significantly more than those in heterogeneous sex groups and that girls'…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Learning
McConnell, Freeman – 1969
A program for approximately 100 2- to 5-year-old culturally deprived Nashville, Tennessee, children was conducted in two community day-care centers. The children received instruction in groups of six or seven on a half-day basis for 5 days a week. Both language input and output were the focus of instruction, which was carried out through…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Experimental Programs
Institute for the Development of Educational Auditing, Arlington, VA. – 1974
The Child Parent Education Centers, funded through Title I of the Elementary Secondary Education Act of 1965, are administered by the Chicago Board of Education in areas characterized by a high density of low-income families. Approximately 2100 children, ages three through nine, are enrolled in the 11 centers which offer up to six years of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Health Programs, Kindergarten
Wicomico County Schools, Salisbury, MD. – 1971
The activities and skills in this guide are designed to improve the listening skills and spoken language of the preschool and primary grade child. Divided into two sections--reading readiness and the reading process--the guide provides skills, suggested activities, and evaluation criteria and methods for teaching listening, speaking, the thought…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition
