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Kennedy, Eddie C. – 1974
Designed for use by students in preservice education, by teachers taking extension courses in reading, and as a manual for inservice work in reading instruction, this book explains the major approaches to teaching developmental reading, suggests methods and techniques for implementing different reading programs, and offers practical suggestions…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Developmental Reading, Evaluation, Phonics
Katz, Ina C.; Singer, Harry – 1976
Data from four of the Cooperative First Grade Studies (1964-1965) were reanalyzed for four first grade projects, (Fry, Hayes, Mazurkiewicz, and Tanyzer). These projects were selected because they compared the Initial Teaching Alphabet approach with traditional orthography-basal reader approaches. The focal point of this reanalysis was to study the…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Shuman, R. Baird – Elementary English, 1973
Children are often turned into deficient readers as a result of their never progressing beyond the first stage of reading--articulation of words from printed page; if provided with an enriched classroom environment, the child will learn to read with little formal instruction. (MM)
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Language Acquisition, Phonics
Download full textYoutz, Adella C.; Putnam, Lillian R. – 1968
This exploratory multivariable comparison of an augmented structural (Stern and Gould) and an enriched basal (Winston) program was conducted with two matched classes of low to average ability disadvantaged children in grades 1 and 2. At the end of grade 1 the basal class rated significantly superior on the Gates-MacGinitie Comprehension Test and…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Disadvantaged, Grade 1
Sheldon, William D.; And Others – 1967
The reading achievement of 376 second graders and the performances in oral reading and creative writing of 150 randomly selected subjects taught by three different methods were studied. All three approaches (basal reader, modified linguistic, and linguistic) were effective for reading instruction at the second-grade level. The largest differences…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Creative Writing, Linguistics, Oral Reading
Beck, Isabel L.; Block, Karen K. – 1976
The instruction provided by two beginning reading programs (the Ginn 720 and the Palo Alto 1973 reading programs) are analyzed and compared in this paper on the basis of such factors as phoneme-grapheme correspondence and phonics instruction, sight word learning, and the development of reading comprehension. The comparison focuses primarily on the…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Comprehension
Dykstra, Robert – 1968
During the first year of the program, 27 individual projects enrolling approximately 20,000 first-grade pupils were involved. Fifteen of these projects participated in a second-grade followup study. Some conclusions based on an analysis of data are (1) that prereading knowledge of letter names is the best single predictor of reading achievement in…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Kinesthetic Methods
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 19 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: the effects on self concept and reading achievement of an art program and an activity-based reading program; children's selection of trade books; two approaches…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Art Education, Audiovisual Instruction, Basic Reading
