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Peer reviewedGroff, Patrick – Reading, 1974
Concludes that the sight method of teaching reading is discredited by recent research findings. (RB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Literature Reviews, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
Download full textMonroe, Johnna; Staunton, Jeannine – 2000
This report describes a program for improving sight word recognition and the ability to improve reading skills. The targeted population consists of a kindergarten class and a primary self-contained special education class. The schools are located in a large metropolitan city. The problem of poor sight-word recognition was documented with student…
Descriptors: Action Research, Instructional Effectiveness, Kindergarten, Primary Education
Peer reviewedLevy, Betty Ann; Lysynchuk, Linda – Scientific Studies of Reading, 1997
Compares effectiveness of four different methods for acquiring initial reading vocabulary--onset plus vowel, rimes, phoneme segmentation and blending, and simple repetition of whole words. Finds that beginning nonreaders acquired the trained words fastest in the onset and rime conditions, and most slowly in the whole word condition. Finds the same…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Instructional Effectiveness, Phonemes, Primary Education
Peer reviewedSpaai, Gerard W. G.; And Others – Journal of Educational Research, 1991
Experiments investigated the learning effects of two strategies (whole-word and segmented feedback) in beginning readers. Results from both experiments indicate whole-word sound feedback is more helpful than segmented feedback. (SM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Feedback, Foreign Countries, Grade 1
Peer reviewedWalton, Patrick D.; Walton, Lona M.; Felton, Kathy – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2001
Examines teaching rime analogy or letter recoding reading strategies to prereaders. Results reveal that experience with rime analogy increased letter recoding ability, but teaching in letter recoding did not enhance rime analogy. Children learned to read with a rime analogy or letter recoding reading strategy, and many developed new reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Encoding (Psychology), Foreign Countries, Grade 1
Koehler, John, Jr.; Bennett, Rosalie – 1972
Three scanning/encoding training conditions were compared with a control condition in transfer tasks involving learning and recognizing six minimally contrasting, single-syllable word-like forms. The scanning/encoding treatments failed to differ from the controls in prereading kindergarteners, which was attributed to the difficulty of the transfer…
Descriptors: Kindergarten Children, Primary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Processes
DeVries, David L.; And Others – 1975
This study tested the effectiveness of Teams-Games-Tournament (TGT) for teaching basic reading skills. TGT is a classroom management technique which uses cooperative student teams, instructional games, and interteam tournaments in a particular combination. Fifty-three third-grade students were randomly assigned to either a TGT or a control…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Beginning Reading, Grade 3, Language Ability
McGann, Thomas Daniel – 1987
Designed to be used primarily as a reader for first and second graders, but also as a speller and vocabulary builder for any student who needs help in language arts mastery, this book combines phonics with the "Look and Say" methods to present a step-by-step learning guide. Following an introduction explaining the five-step procedure…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Consonants, Grade 1, Grade 2
