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This study investigated the relation between field independence/field dependence (FI/FD) and reading success. One hundred kindergarten children from a predominantly white, middle-class community were administered a Portable Rod and Frame Test as a measure of cognitive style. The upper and lower 27% were identified and designated Field Dependent…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Reading Ability
Download full textBARRETT, THOMAS C. – 1965
A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE CONCERNING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MEASURE OF PREREADING VISUAL DISCRIMINATION AND FIRST-GRADE READING ACHIEVEMENT IS GIVEN. THE RELATIVE PREDICTIVE POWER OF VISUAL DISCRIMINATION OF LETTERS, WORDS, GEOMETRIC DESIGNS, AND PICTURES WHEN THESE ABILITIES ARE STUDIED INDIVIDUALLY AND IN COMBINATION IS INDICATED. STUDIES…
Descriptors: Letters (Alphabet), Prereading Experience, Preschool Tests, Reading Achievement
Upchurch, Winifred Brook – 1971
The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which a preassessment of motor development and perceptual skills predicts achievement in word recognition for kindergarten children. The instruments used for evaluation were the Lincoln-Oseretsky Motor Development Scale, Thurstone's Identical Forms Test, Wepman Auditory Discrimination Test,…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Kindergarten Children, Reading, Reading Achievement
Peer reviewedGoodstein, H. A.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1970
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 2, Intelligence Quotient, Memory
Peer reviewedMiller, Wilma H. – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Early Experience, Family Environment, Grade 1
Peer reviewedCramer, Ronald L. – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Phonetic Analysis, Phonics, Reading Achievement
Venezky, Richard L. – 1971
The assumption that the learning of letter names in their proper sequence is a prerequisite for literacy can be questioned. There is disagreement over the value of early letter-name training. It is variously said to aid in letter or word discrimination, to aid in attaching sounds to letters, and to interfere with both of these tasks. An analysis…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Letters (Alphabet), Predictor Variables, Reading Achievement
Wright, Julia Ann – 1976
A stratified random sample of 70 pupils was selected from 261 children from three elementary schools, who had completed one year of formal reading instruction. To investigate whether visual discrimination or visual-motor development was more closely related to reading achievement, tests of reading achievement, intelligence, visual-motor abilities,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Failure, Intelligence
Dykstra, Robert; Tinney, Ronald – Int Reading Assn Conf Proc Pt 1, 1968
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Grade 1
Smith, Helen K., Ed. – 1968
This bulletin is a compilation of papers dealing with the role of perceptual functions in reading and reading difficulties that were delivered at the 1966-67 Convention of the International Reading Association. Various sections are devoted to discussions of and reports of research on such matters as the auditory and visual modalities in reading,…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Learning Modalities, Paired Associate Learning, Perception
Cohn, Marvin – 1974
This paper examines the letter recognition difficulties of 322 primary grade students with decoding problems. Each student was asked to name all of the lower case letters, which were presented in non-alphabetical order. Each response was accurately recorded to determine which letters were taken for others. All responses were then tallied, and an…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Graphemes
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 17 titles deal with the following topics: disadvantaged and nondisadvantaged students' detection of written fallacies in reasoning; the effects of remedial reading instruction, a camp-style reading/study program, and reading…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Auditory Training, Black Students, Compensatory Education
