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Peer reviewedPemberton, Jane B. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2003
This article details a strategy to help students work out unknown multi-syllabic words. The strategy encourages the student to apply phonics skills together with context skills when pronouncing an unknown word. The article includes suggestions for teaching the strategy, for providing daily practice in strategy use, and for adapting the strategy to…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education
Peer reviewedAarnoutse, Cor; Tomesen, Marieke – Educational Studies, 1998
Studies effects of an instructional program for deriving word meanings from context and through morphological analysis for primary school students with poor-to-average reading comprehension. Shows that it has a significant effect on the ability of students to derive word meanings, but found little evidence of transfer to general reading…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Learning Strategies
Direct linkWilliams, Cheri; Hufnagel, Krissy – Research in the Teaching of English, 2005
The research reported here examined word study as an approach to spelling instruction. In particular, the researchers investigated kindergarten children's transfer of specific words, word knowledge, concepts about print, and strategies for spelling unknown words to their self-selected journal writing. Results of the study indicated that the…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Fundamental Concepts, Spelling Instruction, Group Instruction
Fountas, Irene C., Ed.; Pinnell, Gay Su, Ed. – 1999
Extending the editors' system for word study, this book presents essays by scholars and practitioners who explore letter and word learning in a variety of reading, writing, and language contexts in the primary classroom, with articles that range from detailed observations of individual readers and writers to full-scale analyses of classroom…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Evaluation Methods, Phonics, Primary Education
Peay, Kelly J. – 1990
A study compared a traditional text-oriented spelling program to a non-traditional word study spelling program on the basis of four characteristics: students' academic success, students' self-esteem, interest in spelling, and time spent on- and off-task. The sample group consisted of two third grade classes, and both spelling programs had been…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Educational Research, Elementary School Students, Primary Education
Download full textMassaro, Dominic W.; And Others – 1980
A study assessed the role of orthographic structure in college students' perceptual recognition and judgment of letter strings. Lexical status, word frequency, bigram frequency, log bigram frequency, and regularity of letter sequencing were orthogonally varied across a series of experiments. Six-letter words and their anagrams were used as test…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English, Higher Education, Letters (Alphabet)
Scruggs, Thomas E.; Williams, N. Joanne – 1984
The package presents a training approach for increasing test-taking skills of learning disabled (LD) and behaviorally disordered (BD) children along with a research study illustrating the approach's effectiveness with 92 LD or BD elementary students. The approach focuses on such strategies as attending to appropriate stimuli, marking answers…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Behavior Disorders, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities
Besner, D., Ed.; And Others – 1985
Intended to (1) provide new data and reconceptualizations relevant to evolving debates, (2) present summaries of current theoretical positions, and (3) in some cases, to juxtapose radically different opinions in a rapidly growing field, this volume offers a number of views on topics concerning visual word recognition. In chapter 1, Thomas H. Carr…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Lexicology, Measurement Techniques, Models
Masciantonio, Rudolph; And Others – 1982
This guide is intended to assist Latin and English teachers who have some background in Latin to expand the English vocabulary and reading skills of students through the study of Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes. The lessons on numbers in Latin are designed to be presented through an audiolingual approach. The introductory material in the guide…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Secondary Education, Etymology
Maschek, Rose Marie – 1978
The organization of this course outline is based in part on current thought regarding the teaching of reading as it relates to whether comprehension is a general skill or a set of specific identifiable skills, to reading as content and process, to vocabulary development, and to divergent thinking. The outline is divided into two major sections:…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Individualized Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
COLEMAN, JAMES C.; MCNEIL, JOHN D. – 1967
THE HYPOTHESIS THAT CHILDREN WHO ARE TAUGHT TO HEAR AND DESIGNATE SEPARATE SOUNDS IN SPOKEN WORDS WILL ACHIEVE GREATER SUCCESS IN LEARNING TO ANALYZE PRINTED WORDS WAS TESTED. THE SUBJECTS WERE 90 KINDERGARTEN CHILDREN, PREDOMINATELY MEXICAN-AMERICANS AND NEGROES. CHILDREN WERE RANDOMLY ASSIGNED TO ONE OF THREE TREATMENTS, EACH OF 3-WEEKS DURATION…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Training, Cultural Differences, Experimental Teaching
Gillet, Jean Wallace; Temple, Charles – 1978
Systematically incorporated into classroom instruction in word analysis, word sorts provide a sensible alternative to phonics or whole-word approaches and are congruent with the meaning-based direction of today's basal reading programs. A word sort is an activity in which the learner arranges words printed on cards into groups. This technique can…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Concept Formation, Discovery Learning, Elementary Education
Chester, Robert, Ed. – 1975
This report summarizes information regarding populations, methods, evaluation and instructional materials, analyses, and results from three doctoral dissertations that used the Word Attack component of the Wisconsin Design for Reading Skill Development as an instructional and assessment instrument. The first study investigated the assumption that…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Language Acquisition, Reading Ability, Reading Development
Kennedy, Eddie C. – 1974
Designed for use by students in preservice education, by teachers taking extension courses in reading, and as a manual for inservice work in reading instruction, this book explains the major approaches to teaching developmental reading, suggests methods and techniques for implementing different reading programs, and offers practical suggestions…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Developmental Reading, Evaluation, Phonics
Follettie, Joseph F. – 1971
An illustrative taxonomy for some patterns for initially stressed two-syllable words which can be used in word attack instruction is presented and discussed in this paper. It is designed to be a part of an integrated communication skills program produced by Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL). Examples of word patterns whose primary dimension of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classification, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer)
