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Rupley, William H.; And Others – Reading World, 1979
Describes a study of the visual discrimination abilities of children who varied in their ability to recognize words. Indicates that visual discrimination skills of the type needed to discriminate between single artificial graphemes do not seem essential for the word recognition aspect of reading. (TJ)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Graphemes, Reading Instruction

Santa, Carol M. – Reading Improvement, 1975
Demonstrates that discrimination training with verbal materials (words and letters) is generally more helpful than training with non-verbal forms. (RB)
Descriptors: Primary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Readiness, Reading Research
The Effect of Three-Dimensional Stimuli Versus Two-Dimensional Stimuli on Visual Form Discrimination

Towner, John C.; Evans, Howard M. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1974
Confirmed the hypothesis that those in the three-dimensional instructional group would make fewer confusion errors that those in the two-dimensional instructional group on a transfer task in reading. (RB)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Reading Skills

Allington, Richard – Reading Horizons, 1975
Suggests color highlighting as an effective method of improving word recognition visual discrimination skills. (RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Reading Skills
Lott, Deborah – 1969
Little research has been done to explain just why words are recognized more easily than letters alone; although, this phenomenon has been accepted widely by educators. Therefore, a model of the processes involved in word recognition and suggestions concerning how these processes can be put to use in reading instruction are presented. The model…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Optical Scanners, Reading Instruction, Reading Processes
Webber, Margaret Sharp – 1972
The purposes of this study were to determine (1) if it is possible to predict which children will develop word recognition deficits based on levels of articulation proficiency and auditory discrimination ability; (2) the effect of two different instructional approaches for beginning reading, phonics, and whole-word approach; and (3) if first grade…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Phonics
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
Harckham, Laura D.; Hagen, Lois V. – 1970
A 3-year study concerning teaching a phonics-oriented kindergarten readiness program of letter recognition and beginning consonant sounds was discussed. Sixty-eight children attending kindergarten in a suburban middle and upper-middle class community composed the sample. The experimental group consisted of 33 children; the control group consisted…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Kindergarten Children, Listening Skills, Phonics
Underwood, N. R.; McConkie, G. W. – 1983
A study investigated the size of the perceptual span within which adults use visual information to distinguish among letters as they read. The eye movements of fifteen college students were monitored as they read passages from a cathode-ray tube. On occasional fixations, letters in specified visual regions were replaced by other letters. The…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Eye Fixations, Eye Movements
Bogle, Meta Eloise – 1978
The responses of 84 children (42 in kindergarten and 42 in first grade) while trying to identify sight words that were similar in sound (bowl/pole), similar in sound and shape (boat/boot), or dissimilar (cup/moon) yielded information about phonetic composition as a source of information by which beginning readers identify sight words. The…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Listening Skills
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
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
Fisher, Dennis F. – 1976
Some basic pattern-analyzing functions that occur during the reading process are described in this paper. The functions deal mainly with the analysis of typographical factors such as word shape, spacing, and orientation, but they also interact with contextual variables. The research interpreted in the paper proposes an attentional model of reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Conference Reports, Eye Movements
Dawson, Mildred A., Comp. – 1971
A series of articles with the chief emphasis on phonics as a means of analyzing words is presented. Various articles pertain to elementary, secondary, and college level instruction. The first of the five parts into which the volume is divided is comprised of a single article which gives an excellent overview of the field of word recognition. Part…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, College Students, Context Clues, Elementary School Students
Goldenberg, Marvin A. – 1978
In an effort to improve the reading readiness skills of children entering the first grade, a special class was established in a lower socioeconomic area of a large city. Testing procedures were instituted to select appropriate pupils, and pretest and posttest results were used to evaluate the program. The 19 pupils selected for the class were…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Beginning Reading, Concept Formation, Disadvantaged Youth
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