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Structured Word Inquiry: A Critical Literacy Framework for Educators
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Hastings, Kathryn; Trexler, Megan – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2021
In this essay, we reinterpret critical literacy through our engagement with structured word inquiry (SWI). By reflecting upon our experiences within a literacy practicum for educators earning their reading specialist certification, we demonstrate how SWI can provide students and educators with opportunities to transcend the limitations of a scope…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction, Power Structure
Distinct Benefits Given Large versus Small Grain Orthographic Instruction for English-Speaking Adults Learning to Read Russian Cyrillic
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Brennan, Christine; Kiskin, Jennifer – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2020
Initial instruction emphasizing large grain units (i.e., words) showed distinct advantages over small grain instruction for English-speaking adults learning to read an artificial orthography (Brennan and Booth in Read Writ 28(7):917-938, 2015. 10.1007/s11145-015-9555-2). The current study extends this research by training 34 English-speaking…
Descriptors: Russian, Phonological Awareness, Accuracy, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Literacy Learning in the Twenty-First Century: How Much Have We Learnt?
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Clark, Margaret M. – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2017
Languages differ in the way that speech and meaning are represented in written form: in English, the correspondences are variable. Thus, in learning to read in English there is need for an approach that combines alphabetic decoding and a mastery of sight vocabulary. Teaching children to read should develop from an analysis of the skills and…
Descriptors: Literacy, Written Language, Speech Communication, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Reading in Asian Languages: Making Sense of Written Texts in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
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Goodman, Kenneth S., Ed.; Wang, Shaomei, Ed.; Iventosch, Mieko, Ed.; Goodman, Yetta M., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Reading in Asian Languages" is rich with information about how literacy works in the non-alphabetic writing systems (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) used by hundreds of millions of people and refutes the common Western belief that such systems are hard to learn or to use. The contributors share a comprehensive view of reading as construction…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Literature, Korean Culture, Eye Movements
CORRESPONDENCE GROUP - SEQUENCE AND RATIONALES.
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SADOFF, BARBARA H.; WEBER, ROSE-MARIE – 1966
A SEQUENTIAL, INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY WAS PRESENTED FOR DECODING LETTERS INTO SOUND. THE STRATEGY WAS INTENDED TO COMPLEMENT INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS IN BEGINNING READING. LETTER-SOUND CORRESPONDENCES AND CONCEPTS WERE PROVIDED FOR ALL LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET AS THEY MIGHT OCCUR IN VARYING POSITIONS TO FORM ENGLISH WORDS. OF THE VOWELS, ONLY TWO…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Educational Strategies, English, Language Patterns
A PRE-READING UNIT ON THE RATIONALE FOR CODING SPEECH INTO WRITING.
1966
THIS UNIT GUIDE WAS DESIGNED FOR DEMONSTRATING TO THE PREREADER THAT WRITING IS A CODE FOR SPEECH AND THAT LETTERS ARE SYMBOLS FOR SOUNDS MADE IN SPEECH. IT WAS DEVELOPED AS A PREREADING UNIT UNDER "PROJECT LITERACY," A BASIC RESEARCH AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM IN AREAS OF EDUCATION RELEVANT TO THE ACQUISITION OF LITERACY SKILLS.…
Descriptors: Codification, English, Grade 1, Kindergarten
The Cognitive Processes Involved in Learning to Read in Arabic
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Taouka, Miriam; Coltheart, Max – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2004
Semitic writing systems such as that used to write Arabic are unique among st alphabetic writing systems in that in Semitic systems short vowels are represented as diacritics on consonant letters, and not represented at Allin text intended for skilled readers. Arabic is unique here in that the letter used to represent a consonant differs in shape…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Semitic Languages
Teaching Freshman English to Native and Non-Native Students: Some Similarities and Some Differences.
Macha, Dyne H. – 1977
This paper, intended for freshman English instructors who teach reading and writing to both native and non-native students, discusses basic differences and similarities affecting instruction for the two groups. For example, non-native linguistic differences encourage teachers to deal with syntactic interference in reading and with highly embedded…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, College Freshmen, Cultural Differences, English