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Cramer, Ronald Lee – 1968
The effect of two methods of reading instruction on the spelling achievement of first-grade students was investigated. Ten first-grade classes received reading instruction utilizing the Language Experience Approach (LEA) and 11 received instruction utilizing the Basal Reader Approach (BRA). One spelling list of 40 phonologically regular words and…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Grade 1, Language Experience Approach, Reading Instruction
Download full textHARRIS, ALBERT J.; SERWER, BLANCHE L. – 1966
THE RESULTS OF A STUDY OF THE TIME ALLOCATED TO VARIOUS ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE ARTS BY 48 TEACHERS OF 1,600 FIRST-GRADE DISADVANTAGED URBAN CHILDREN IN NEW YORK CITY ARE REPORTED. TWELVE CLASSES EACH WERE ASSIGNED TO ONE OF FOUR METHODS USED IN THE CRAFT PROJECT (COMPARING READING APPROACHES TO FIRST-GRADE TEACHING WITH EDUCATIONALLY DISADVANTAGED…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 1
Cramer, Ronald L. – Elem Engl, 1970
Reviewed in a following article by E. Hugh Rudorf, "Review of 'An Investigation of First-Grade Spelling Achievement' by R. L. Cramer, pp. 238-40. (SW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Reading, Creative Writing, Educational Research
KELLOGG, RALPH EDWARD – 1966
A FIRST-GRADE LISTENING SKILLS PROGRAM WAS DESIGNED TO BE TAUGHT AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE LANGUAGE ARTS PROGRAM AND TO IMPROVE ACHIEVEMENT IN LISTENING AND READING. THE COMPONENTS AND GUIDELINES FOR THE EXPERIMENT ARE SPECIFIED. THIRTY-THREE CLASSROOMS IN 22 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY PARTICIPATED. THE TREATMENT GROUPS WERE A…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Grade 1, Instructional Materials, Language Arts
Dykstra, Robert – 1970
The relationships between prereading measures of auditory discrimination, letter knowledge, and intelligence and reading ability were investigated for pupils who completed grades 1 and 2 in four different types of instructional programs--conventional basal reading programs, i/t/a programs, language-experience approaches, and code-emphasis…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Grade 2
Riendeau, Betty A. – 1973
The purpose of this study was to determine and to interpret the effect of two differing approaches to reading instruction on the self-social concepts of first grade children. The concepts analyzed were self-esteem; social interest; individuation; complexity; realism; identifications with mother, father, teacher, and friend; and preferences for…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 1
Kerfoot, James F. – 1965
This publication contains papers contributed to the fifth Perspectives of Reading conference of the International Reading Association which focused on the teaching of beginning reading. The following approaches are described and evaluated: (1) individualized reading, (2) basal reading, (3) linguistic approach, (4) phonics approach, (5) new…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Individualized Reading
CLELAND, DONALD L.; VILSCEK, ELAINE – 1964
THE EFFECTS OF TWO INSTRUCTIONAL APPROACHES, THE COORDINATED, BASAL LANGUAGE ARTS APPROACH AND THE INTEGRATED EXPERIENCE APPROACH TO COMMUNICATION, ON PUPILS' LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT WERE EXAMINED. APPROXIMATELY 600 FIRST-GRADE STUDENTS WERE ASSIGNED RANDOMLY TO THE TWO APPROACHES. APPROXIMATELY 500 PUPILS COMPRISED THE FINAL, TOTAL PUPIL POPULATION…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Grade 1, Inservice Teacher Education, Intelligence Differences
Harris, Albert J.; Morrison, Coleman – 1968
The reading progress of disadvantaged urban Negro children was investigated over a 3-year period in the Comparing Approaches in First-Grade Teaching with Disadvantaged Children (CRAFT) Project in New York City. Reading was taught by two basic approaches, skills centered and language experience. The former included a basal reader method and a…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth
Morrison, Coleman; Harris, Albert J. – 1968
The reading achievement of children with and without kindergarten experience was investigated as part of the Comparing Reading Approaches in First Grade Teaching (CRAFT) Project in New York City. Children in grades 1 and 2 were taught reading by one of two approaches, skills centered or language experience. Within the former approach, two methods…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Black Students
McC. Gallagher, Jo Anne – 1975
The purpose of this study was to determine whether lower-class students would exhibit greater retention of reading vocabulary with a language experience approach to reading than with a basal text approach. Sixty low socioeconomic level students from the seven first grades of one elementary school in a small South Carolina town were randomly…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 1
Stauffer, Russell G., Ed. – 1967
Twenty-seven summaries of first-grade reading studies sponsored by the United States Office of Education are included. The studies, done in the 1964-65 school year, were made in different localities, and each was concerned with a different problem. More than one-half of the directors were full-time college professors; a few were senior authors of…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 1
