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Download full textAli, Yvonne B.; And Others – 1980
Intended for teachers of preschool and kindergarten children, this manual is designed to share effective practices and products that have been either developed or refined by pre-elementary Right to Read programs. The first section of the manual discusses a variety of activities that focus on cognitive, language, personal/social, and motor…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Development, Learning Activities, Parent Participation
ENGELMANN, SIEGFRIED
ONE OF THE PROBLEMS OF TEACHING READING TO CHILDREN WITH LOW MENTAL AGES, FOR EXAMPLE, OF FOUR TO FIVE, IS THAT MOST READING PROGRAMS ARE GEARED TO THE CHILDREN WITH A MENTAL AGE OF ABOUT SIX AND ONE-HALF. A CHILD WITH THIS HIGHER MENTAL DEVELOPMENT WILL OFTEN HAVE MANY OF THE BASIC READING SKILLS ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED, OR HE CAN LEARN THEM QUICKLY…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Development, Instructional Improvement, Learning Problems
Nurss, Joanne R. – 1977
Prereading assessment was first used to predict school readiness and was an assessment of the child's visual and oral vocabulary skills. By the 1970s, readiness assessment had changed from assessment of a child's developmental probability for success or failure in reading to an assessment of the child's skill development in relation to the reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Development, Decoding (Reading), Learning Processes
Stanchfield, Jo M. – 1971
The effects of teaching prereading skills to kindergarteners on their reading readiness scores were investigated. Seventeen kindergartens providing a cross section of socioeconomic levels and representing different ethnic groups were selected. Each experimental school was then matched to a control school. In the experimental schools, six major…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Beginning Reading, Black Students, Ethnic Status
Williams, Joanna P. – 1986
This paper presents arguments in favor of adding reading achievement at age seven to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Progress in reading is developmental. At age seven, most children are in the midst of the crucial stage of beginning reading; by age nine, those making normal progress have moved beyond this stage. Much of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Concurrent Validity, Educational Assessment, Educational Testing
Kunkle, Virginia L.; Eberhart, Nancy A. – 1976
Focused on embracing individual children in language/reading experiences through instructional guidance combined with acceptance and understanding, this teaching guide for beginning reading provides teaching-learning activities which are organized for easy reference. The first section presents a self-corrective pretest for teachers, with an…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Environment, Corrective Reading, Inservice Education
