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Peer reviewedKoppman, Patricia S.; La Pray, Margaret H. – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Beginning Reading, Kindergarten, Maturation
Hirst, Wilma E. – J Learning Disabilities, 1969
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Education, Learning Readiness, Predictive Measurement, Preschool Children
Download full textGuszak, Frank J. – 1981
An elementary school in Texas has developed a program of reading instruction that immediately provides early readers with ample reading opportunities and materials rather than constraining them with "reading readiness" assessment. Initially, the absence of sufficient reinforcement material in the basal readers required increased amounts of reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Individualized Reading, Primary Education, Program Descriptions
AN ADMINISTRATIVE AND INSTRUCTIONAL READING GUIDE FOR THE PRIMARY CYCLE (THE UNGRADED PRIMARY PLAN).
Flint Public Schools, MI. – 1961
AN UNGRADED 3- OR 4-YEAR READING PROGRAM INCORPORATES THE PHILOSOPHY THAT CONTINUOUS PROGRESS AND GROWTH SHOULD RECEIVE MAJOR EMPHASIS. PUPILS ARE PLACED IN ACHIEVEMENT GROUPS BASED ON READINESS FOR AND GROWTH IN READING RATHER THAN ON IQ PERFORMANCE. EACH CHILD PROGRESSES CONTINUOUSLY THROUGH 10 READING LEVELS ACCORDING TO HIS INDIVIDUAL GROWTH.…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Child Development, Nongraded Instructional Grouping, Parent Teacher Conferences
FRY, EDWARD – 1965
A STUDY TO DETERMINE IF READING READINESS MATERIALS ARE NECESSARY IN THE FIRST GRADE REVEALS THAT THEY ARE NOT. THE EXPERIMENT WAS CONDUCTED IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF A SUBURBAN MIDDLE CLASS COMMUNITY IN NEW JERSEY. TESTS WERE ADMINISTERED IN SEPTEMBER TO ALL PUPILS OF THE FIRST GRADE. NO READING INSTRUCTION HAD BEEN GIVEN IN KINDERGARTEN AND NO…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Grade 1, Instructional Materials
COOPER, JAMES G. – 1962
A 4-YEAR LANGUAGE ARTS PROGRAM WAS BEGUN ON GUAM USING TWO NEW APPROACHES. IT WAS FELT THAT THE PRIMARY GRADES LANGUAGE ARTS PROGRAM SHOULD INCLUDE (1) A YEAR OF CONVERSATIONAL ENGLISH, FOLLOWED BY THE USUAL READING ACTIVITIES IN GRADES TWO AND THREE AND (2) ONE-HALF YEAR OF CONVERSATIONAL ENGLISH FOLLOWED BY THE USUAL READING ACTIVITIES. IT WAS…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, English Instruction, Language Arts, Language Handicaps
Langer, Judith A.; Nicolich, Mark – 1980
A study was conducted to determine: (1) the relationships between prior knowledge and passage recall; (2) the effect of a prereading activity (PReP) on available knowledge; and (3) the effect of the PReP activity on total comprehension scores. The subjects were 161 sixth grade students from a middle class suburban Long Island, New York, public…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Prior Learning
Ali, Yvonne B.; And Others – 1980
As part of a series of publications reporting the promising practices gleaned from pre-elementary Right to Read programs, this guidebook introduces its readers to the format used to describe the promising practices, provides statistical and descriptive information about the pre-elementary Right to Read programs, and describes each of the four…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Preschool Education, Program Administration, Program Descriptions
Mason, Jana M. – 1981
After considering the advent of knowledge about prereading from a longitudinal perspective, this report then reviews the research on preschool children's attempts to read and offers a discussion of cross-sectional research on both prereading and beginning reading. The discussion is organized in terms of three hypothesized strands of prereading:…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Prereading Experience, Preschool Education
Falk, Joy Wollin – 1976
The purpose of this investigation was to examine syntax comprehension by poor and average prereaders in first grade and poor and average readers in second grade, to determine whether a relationship exists between reading ability or reading readiness and comprehension of syntax. Subjects were 55 first-grade children and 56 second-grade children of…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary School Students, Primary Education, Reading Ability
Hall, Amanda P.; Smith, Claudette – 1978
Part of the PREP Program (Preparatory Reading Program for Visually Handicapped Children), the document presents 10 units, each consisting of a picture story in large print, and emphasizing concept development rather than braille skills. Designed for use in conjunction with the program's other two components, the 10 units are aimed at visually…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Concept Formation, Learning Activities, Lesson Plans
Scott, Norval C., Comp. – 1968
In the summer of 1968, a workshop was held to produce a reading booklet to be used especially by migrant children. The booklet was to: (1) take about 2 weeks of class time, (2) appeal to the migrant child with his special set of needs, (3) be as interesting and creative as possible, and (4) have a built-in pre- and posttesting program for…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Guides, Lesson Plans, Migrant Education
Hawkins, Deborah – 1976
Compared were the effects of mainstream or special class placement on the acquisition of reading skills and self concept with a total of 84 kindergarten or first grade learning disabled students. Significant differences were found between the two groups on only one of the four tests given: the letter names subtest of the Murphy-Durrell Analysis.…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities, Mainstreaming, Primary Education
Ames Public Schools, IA. – 1975
This project report describes pilot programs of the Ames Community School District for two school years, 1973-74 and 1974-75. The purposes of the pilot programs were to ascertain whether objectives were met, to consider the appropriateness of activities and materials, to determine the validity of the test measure, to assess the degree to which…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Elementary Education, Projects, Reading
Miller, Wilma H. – 1970
The existence of possible relationships between home environmental factors and children's reading readiness in kindergarten was sought in this study. The specific home environmental factors examined were maternal teaching style, maternal language style, children's daily schedules, and home prereading activities. A description of earlier studies…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Environmental Influences, Kindergarten Children, Mother Attitudes
