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Fields, Marjorie V.; Hillstead, Deborah V. – Principal, 1986
There is an explosion of new research describing writing stages and how young children learn about reading by learning to write first. Teachers can develop environments in which students can freely explore writing in no-fail situations. By being guided by childrens' spontaneous learning efforts many inapropriate teaching techniques can be avoided.…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Preschool Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Processes
Smith, Elizabeth A. – 1986
In the 1920s and 1930s, interpretations of reading readiness held that learning to read occurred at a specific point in cognitive development. Postponement of reading instruction until a child reached this stage of maturity was widely accepted at that time, and throughout the 1940s and 1950s. The 1960s marked a transition period in terms of…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages
Download full textSulzby, Elizabeth – 1982
The product of a two-year study investigating the literacy behavior of nine kindergarten students and their classmates, this report first explains the impetus and the theoretical foundations for the investigation and describes its subjects and setting. It then presents the methodology and the data collected from several related studies: (1)…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Research, Kindergarten Children, Language Experience Approach
Franklin, Elizabeth; And Others – Insights into Open Education, 1987
A group of elementary teachers enrolled in a graduate class in language arts at the University of North Dakota explored how children construct their own meanings as they interact with texts. One teacher regularly read to her 20-month-old grandson, and excerpts from the journal she kept reveal that his understanding of a specific text evolved to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Childrens Literature, Grade 5
Holdaway, Don – 1979
Intended for teachers, this book on beginning literacy examines questions and solutions concerning literacy theories and practices. Chapter 1, "An Open Approach to Literacy," explores some assumptions about literacy and characteristics of a model for language learning. Chapter 2 presents historical viewpoints and current practices,…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Diagnostic Teaching, Early Experience, Elementary Education
Itzkoff, Seymour W. – 1996
This nontechnical guide for parents and teachers examines learning to read from infants' babbling to the fluent reading of children reading independently for pleasure. Chapter 1, "Baby Speaks," describes language development in infancy. Chapter 2, "Our Alphabet: Language by Ear and by Eye," presents the alphabetic system and…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Dyslexia, Early Reading, Emergent Literacy
