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Pershey, Monica Gordon; Gilbert, Thomas W. – Mental Retardation, 2002
This case study of an adult with developmental disabilities and no educational history reports on the successful literacy tutoring method used, which entails echo reading of brief passages and moving from holistic recognition of print to analysis of decoding and spelling. This approach contrasts with methods that first use small units of…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adults, Case Studies, Decoding (Reading)
White, Thomas G. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2005
Fifteen regular grade 2 teachers used a set of 150 written lessons that were designed to develop, over the course of a school year, low and normally achieving students' ability to decode by analogy (i.e., to read unknown words using known words). The lessons provided (1) a planned sequence for teaching phonic elements including common spelling…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Sight Method, Word Recognition, Teaching Methods