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It's What's on the Outside that Matters: An Advantage for External Features in Children's Word Recognition
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Webb, Tessa M.; Beech, John R.; Mayall, Kate M.; Andrews, Antony S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2006
The relative importance of internal and external letter features of words in children's developing reading was investigated to clarify further the nature of early featural analysis. In Experiment 1, 72 6-, 8-, and 10-year-olds read aloud words displayed as wholes, external features only (central features missing, thereby preserving word shape…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Children, Prereading Experience, Reaction Time
The Reading Process for the Beginning Reader.
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Gray, Mary Jane – Reading Horizons, 1988
Analyzes two case studies of children who seem to have learned to read before enrolling in school. Examines common factors in their home environments, and suggests it is important for teachers to take into account the reading experience each child brings to school. (RS)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Case Studies, Early Reading, Family Environment
Emergent Literacy: Writing and Reading. Writing Research: Multidisciplinary Inquiries into the Nature of Writing Series.
Teale, William H., Ed.; Sulzby, Elizabeth, Ed. – 1986
Focusing on the not-yet-conventional ways in which young children write and read--their nature, contexts, and significance for continuing literacy development, this book presents the perspective that children's early reading and writing behaviors are not pre- anything, but are integral parts of an incipient language process. Following an…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Early Reading