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Humbert, Mary Beth C. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Beginning readers and struggling readers need explicit, systematic instruction in phonemic awareness and phonics (Adams, 2008; Ehri,1992, 1998; Ehri, Nunes, Willows, Schuster, & Yaghoub-Zadeh, 2001; Gaskins et al., 1997; Moats, 2004; Morris, 2015; National Reading Panel, 2000; Reutzel, 2015). Ehri and McCormick's (2008) phases of word learning…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Grade 1, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction
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Faust, Miriam; Kandelshine-Waldman, Osnat – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
The present study used two letter detection tasks, the classic missing letter effect paradigm and a single word versus familiar word compound version of this paradigm, to study bottom-up and top-down processes involved in reading in normally achieving as compared to low achieving elementary school readers. The research participants were children…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Models, Word Recognition, Reading Instruction
Culyer, Richard – Academic Therapy, 1988
The use of Single Concept Cards and Single Concept Card Sentences is presented as a means of helping poor readers or nonreaders improve word recognition. An overview describes the cards, and strategies are offered for teaching the first word or sentence, teaching subsequent words or sentences, and providing reinforcement. (JDD)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials, Learning Strategies
Gallistel, Elizabeth; And Others – 1972
Ten auditory and ten visual aptitude measures were administered in the middle of first grade to a sample of 58 low readers. More than half of this low reader sample had scored more than a year below expected grade level on two or more aptitudes. Word recognition measures were administered after four months of sight word instruction and again after…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Phonics, Reading
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Aaron, P. G.; Joshi, R. M.; Ayotollah, Mahboobeh; Ellsberry, Annie; Henderson, Janet; Lindsey, Kim – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1999
Considers the relationship between decoding and sight-word reading. Investigates whether to use the whole-word method or to build decoding skills before introducing sight words. Sets up five goals to address these issues. Concludes that sight-word reading instruction is likely to be successful if decoding skills are firmly established first. (SC)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Reading Difficulties
Weaver, Constance – 1988
Based on the thesis that reading is not a passive process by which readers soak up words and information from the page, but an active process by which they predict, sample, and confirm or correct their hypotheses about the written text, this book is an introduction to the theories of the psycholinguistic nature of the reading process and reading…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Content Area Reading, Early Reading