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Bruininks, Robert H.; And Others – Elem Sch J, 1970
Results of the study seem to suggest the presence of general deficits in the auditory receptive and vocal expressive abilities of poor reading disadvantaged children, who learned to read using the initial teaching alphabet series rather than the traditional orthography approach. (Author)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Grade 1, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Listening Comprehension
Peer reviewedFeitelson, Dina; Razel, Micha – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1984
Examines the notion that words are sometimes perceived with greater ease than letters and that word shape sometimes plays a role in the perception of words. The data collected from 40 Israeli kindergarteners revealed that beginning readers found it easier to identify single letters than whole words, thus refuting the above notion. (Author/AS)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
