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May, Frank B.; Eliot, Susan B. – Reading Teacher, 1978
Lists a basic sight vocabulary of 96 irregularly spelled words which should be taught through visual memory techniques. (MKM)
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Language Patterns
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Garman, Dorothy – Reading Teacher, 1978
Reports research which shows that a wide gap exists between basal reader language and children's level of oral language development. (JM)
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Child Language, Language Acquisition
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Whalen, Thomas E. – Reading Teacher, 1970
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level, Disadvantaged
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Gourley, Judith W. – Reading Teacher, 1978
Basal readers are supposed to be easy for children to read, but sometimes their language is so unnatural that it's more confusing than helpful. (MKM)
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Child Language, Language Patterns
Criscuolo, Nicholas P. – Reading Horiz, 1970
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Language Patterns
Weber, Rose-Marie – Reading Res Quart, 1970
Analyzes and classifies types of oral reading miscues and suggests that children learn to utilize sound-letter correspondences but know immediately to transfer their knowledge of spoken language patterns to reading. Tables and bibliography. (RW)
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Data Analysis, Grade 1, Language Patterns
Korn, Florence V. – 1973
Language samples were collected from 12 randomly selected black first graders of average intelligence, from low socioeconomic families in a New York City suburb. The language samples were analyzed for black English syntactic features and language structural patterns. Three basal reader passages were then selected and repatterned for each pupil, to…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Black Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 1
Fryburg, Estelle L. – 1972
One hundred native-born, disadvantaged black children were the subject of this study which proposed the following hypotheses: (1) Subjects proficient in spoken language ability would achieve greater gains in reading ability than those deficient in spoken language ability; however, the former group would vary negligibly among sub-groups in reading…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Research, Language Ability
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Hart, N.W.M. – 1976
Children's mastery of reading skills would be facilitated if reading programs capitalized on children's already-developed oral language competence. Barriers against "reading for meaning" exist when the cues used for predicting in oral language are not present in the written language which confronts children; yet anaylses of four reading…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Child Language, Language Patterns
Rietz, Sandra A. – 1976
This study examined the hypothesis of a linear, bipolar continuum, with the principles of oral language at one end and those of written language at the other. Six sources of language were identified and arranged along the continuum, to reflect their underlying governing principles: spontaneous oral language of children, children's folk songs,…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Child Language, Childrens Literature, Doctoral Dissertations
HAYES, ROBERT B.; WUEST, RICHARD C. – 1966
FOUR DIFFERENT READING PROGRAMS WERE EVALUATED USING 302 SECOND-GRADE PUPILS WHO HAD PARTICIPATED IN THE SAME PROGRAMS IN GRADE 1. IN ADDITION TO THE STUDY CONDUCTED IN THE SECOND GRADE, A PILOT STUDY WAS CONTINUED INTO GRADE 3, AND A MODIFIED VERSION OF THE GRADE 1 STUDY WAS MADE AGAIN IN GRADE 1. THE FOUR READING PROGRAMS INVOLVED WERE (1) A…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Basic Reading, Comparative Analysis, Filmstrips