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Peer reviewedFlood, James; Lapp, Diane – Reading Teacher, 1998
Describes two hours in the life of an eight-year-old to demonstrate that children acquire information and develop language skills from multiple sources. Argues that the conceptualization of literacy must be broadened from reading and writing skills to a definition that recognizes the layering of information and that includes all forms of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Definitions, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedArra, Christopher T.; Aaron, P. G. – Psychology in the Schools, 2001
Two studies compare phonology-based instructional strategies designed for improving spelling skills of elementary school children against instruction strategies that rely only on visual exposure of words. In both studies, posttests showed that children taught through psycholinguistic and phoneme awareness methods significantly outperformed the…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Elementary Education, Phonemes, Phonology
Peer reviewedSchmalz, Rosemary – Arithmetic Teacher, 1978
Some suggestions are given of how various decimal concepts can be introduced using Multibase Arithmetic Blocks, base ten. (MN)
Descriptors: Decimal Fractions, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedTurner, Irene F.; Quinn, Elizabeth – Educational Psychology, 1986
Reports the results of a study of 7- to 11-year-old boys (n=100) designed to explore the use of visual and auditory information in learning to spell. Results showed that only with 10- and 11-year-olds did visual information produce better results than auditory presentation alone. (JDH)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Training, Educational Research, Elementary Education
