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Raver, Sharon A.; Dwyer, Robert C. – Reading Teacher, 1986
Shows that mentally handicapped preschool children can learn to read words when word cards become tools for communicating their wishes. Indicates also that language skills improve and that these transfer to other situations. (FL)
Descriptors: Early Reading, Hearing Impairments, Language Acquisition, Language Skills
Reutzel, D. Ray; Hollingsworth, Paul M. – Academic Therapy, 1988
The whole language philosophy of teaching reading and writing is outlined and related to children's acquisition of oral and written language. A typical whole language classroom is described, along with the roles of the teacher and students. A chart contrasts whole language theory with more typical methods of literacy education. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Educational Philosophy
Treiman, Rebecca – 1987
While previous studies have investigated children's awareness of two units within words--syllables and phonemes, there is experimental evidence that children are also aware of intrasyllabic units (units intermediate in size between the syllable and the phoneme), and that these units may be useful for teaching phonological awareness and reading.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Language Acquisition, Language Research
Franklin, Elizabeth Anne – 1984
A naturalistic study of two bilingual first grade classrooms was conducted to gain an increased understanding of the cultural literacy instruction beliefs in society and to better understand the process by which literacy instruction beliefs influence the classroom. One Anglo and one Hispanic teacher working in different midwestern school systems…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Bilingual Education, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences
Weaver, Constance – 1988
Based on the thesis that reading is not a passive process by which readers soak up words and information from the page, but an active process by which they predict, sample, and confirm or correct their hypotheses about the written text, this book is an introduction to the theories of the psycholinguistic nature of the reading process and reading…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Content Area Reading, Early Reading