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Bruner, Elaine C. – 1968
A reading program developed to teach the minimum set of skills which enable children to recognize words as rapidly as possible through direct instruction in left-to-right orientation, blending, rhyming, and sounds is described. The materials for the program consist of teacher presentation notebooks used by the teachers in working with small groups…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Disadvantaged Youth, Reading Programs
Chester, Robert – 1975
This study was initiated both to follow up an earlier investigation and to gather additional descriptive data regarding the relationship between the Prereading Skills Program and the Word Attack area of the "Wisconsin Design." Four Wisconsin schools participated. In this study, kindergarten students who had completed one year of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
Alvarez, Juan; Kwapil, Marie Jo – 1972
This textbook is intended as supplementary material for children who need a K-4 interest-level and K-2 skill-level reader in either English or Spanish. The basic vocabulary is common to five of the seven most widely used basic English primers. A special feature of this reader is the introduction of new words in both languages. The color coding is…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Beginning Reading, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education
Diss, Ronald E. – 1998
This manual is intended to assist school personnel in their efforts to initiate effective reading tutoring programs to help children in the early grades (generally, grades K-3) who lack the literacy skills required to be successful students. This manual can be used by program coordinators to help volunteer tutors who may not have had formal…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Emergent Literacy, High Risk Students, Primary Education
Wallach, Michael A.; Wallach, Lise – 1976
The rationale, development, and implementation of a reading program designed to teach disadvantaged children the skills prerequisite to learning to read are discussed in this paper. Of particular importance are skills in the recognition and manipulation of basic speech sounds, phonemes. The first of the program's three parts takes two and one-half…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Conference Reports, Disadvantaged Youth, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence