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Ediger, Marlow – 2000
This paper begins with an overview of necessary word recognition skills and the debate between use of phonics versus whole language. The paper gives a useful 5-step strategy for decoding unfamiliar words: (1) use context clues; (2) try the sound of the initial consonant, vowel, or blend in addition to context clues; (3) check for structural clues;…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Phonics, Reading Instruction
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Stanovich, Keith E.; Stanovich, Paula J. – Journal of Research in Reading, 1995
Outlines a strategy for resolving disputes between the whole language and phonics camps in reading instruction. Reviews research on the role of context in word recognition, the process of reading acquisition, and analytic versus holistic approaches to reading acquisition. Suggests that the way is clear for whole language advocates to reconstitute…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Context Clues, Elementary Education, Literature Reviews
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Strickland, Dorothy S. – Educational Leadership, 1998
As the phonics/whole-language debate continues, a method called "whole-part-whole" provides a balanced conceptual framework for thinking about and planning skills instruction. It addresses the need for teaching that is grounded in fundamental understandings about whole texts (stories, informational books, and poems), allows for indepth…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Holistic Approach, Models
Manning, Maryann; And Others – 1994
Going beyond the available research on children's spelling development and written text (reading), this year-long longitudinal study examined the relationship between spelling and reading in order to determine whether kindergarten children's ideas about spelling develop simultaneously with reading or whether one precedes the other. Monthly, for 8…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children, Longitudinal Studies
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Fowler, Dorothy. – Educational Leadership, 1998
A first-grade teacher explains how she uses the whole-part-whole reading model with 15 youngsters. Rereading allows students to practice recently learned skills and strategies, while developing fluency and comprehension. Other exercises include reading aloud in pairs, deciphering the daily schedule, discussions of syllable and sound similarities,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Educational Practices, Grade 1, Phonics
Milligan, Jerry L. – 1988
The debate between the whole language approach and the word-centered skills approach to beginning reading instruction is likely to continue into the next decade, so it seems crucial that educators at all levels understand thoroughly the views held by the participants. Advocates of the whole language approach believe effective readers see meaning…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories
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Ball, Eileen Wynne – Topics in Language Disorders, 1997
Reviews the relationship between phonological awareness and early reading. Follow-up data from a group of 38 first-grade children who had low letter-sound knowledge in kindergarten found that those who received phonological awareness intervention in kindergarten performed better than their first-grade peers on word recognition and reading decoding…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Followup Studies, Intervention
Rinsky, Lee Ann – 1993
Including revisions and updates in all areas, this book functions as a pre-service and in-service teacher self-instructional manual in word recognition skills. The first part of the book discusses the controversy concerning early phonics instruction versus use of the whole language approach, and then discusses consonants, vowels, reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Computer Uses in Education, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading)
Rinsky, Lee Ann – 1997
Teaching the benefit of systematic instruction in decoding strategies, this self-instruction manual for teachers in word recognition skills stresses reading instruction in an environment that has comprehension as its goal. Quality reading materials constitute the core of this early reading program. New in the sixth edition are additional review…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Computer Assisted Instruction, Decoding (Reading), Independent Study