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Peer reviewedFriedberg, Joan – Young Children, 1989
Discusses a reading project, Beginning With Books, designed to promote literacy among low-income preschool children and provide them with books. Describes the project's development and the procedure for operating the Gift Book Program. Lists 51 books suitable for a toddler book collection. (RJC)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childrens Literature, Disadvantaged Youth, Prereading Experience
Download full textFRANKENSTEIN, ROSELYN; KJELDERGAARD, PAUL M. – 1967
A PILOT EXPERIMENT CONDUCTED TO TEST THE EFFECT OF A SPECIALLY DEVISED PHONIC APPROACH TO EARLY READING IS DESCRIBED. THE PHONIC METHOD USED ACHIEVED SOUND-SYMBOL REGULARITY AND HAD THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERISTICS--(1) CONSONANT GRAPHEMES EACH REPRESENTED ONLY ONE SOUND AND WERE PRINTED USING NEARLY STANDARD ALPHABETIC SYMBOLS. (2) EACH VOWEL…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Kindergarten, Learning, Phonetics
Bean, Rita M.; And Others – 1990
This study offered a means of evaluating the long-term effects of the Beginning with Books gift packet program on literacy experiences provided by the family, on the children's literacy and language abilities, and on the skills of the children involved in the program as perceived by their kindergarten teachers. The program is a nonprofit…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Emergent Literacy, Family Literacy, Interviews
