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Download full textGoldbecker, Sheralyn S. – 1975
In discussing instructional approaches to reading, this book offers several definitions of reading and discusses teaching techniques, including early methods, the basal approach, and recent trends, among them the phonics approach, the linguistics approach, the language experience approach, the initial teaching alphabet, individualized reading,…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Primary Education
Initial Teaching Alphabet Foundation, London (England). – 1966
A series of lessons designed to explain what the Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.) is and to prepare prospective teachers of i.t.a. materials and methods as thoroughly as possible is presented. The eight lessons of the course, for each of which a separate booklet is provided, include the following: (1) The difficulties of traditional orthography…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Correspondence Study, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Osborn, Julia; And Others – 1975
As part of a two-year project that examined the processes by which children initially approach the reading task, a study was devised to test the project's materials and procedures. Selected by a pretest, four kindergarten children, with no prior reading instruction, were taught the same reading content using the initial teaching alphabet for a…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Decoding (Reading), Initial Teaching Alphabet
Goldberg, Miriam L.; And Others – 1977
As part of a two-year project that examined the processes by which children initially approach the reading task, the second phase of a preliminary study was devised that modified the pretest, the instructional modes and format, the sequence and amount of information presented in the instructional sessions, and the procedures for testing and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Decoding (Reading), Initial Teaching Alphabet
Goldberg, Miriam L.; And Others – 1977
Summarizing the final phase of a two-year project that examined the processes by which children initially approach the reading task, this report presents both general and individual findings derived from the analyses of the children's performance over the course of a year. The first section discusses the following general topics related to the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Decoding (Reading), Individual Differences
Downing, John A. – 1971
Four paradoxes appear in research on learning to read: (1) the ability to name letters is a good predictor of reading readiness, yet letter-naming training does not help children learn how to read; (2) visual discrimination is often better in poor readers than in good readers; (3) learning to read two languages is easier than learning to read one;…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
