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Download full textMcCabe, Don – 1976
This booklet discusses a procedure to assist students experiencing difficulty in learning the "Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary of 220 Words" and rearranges a list of 220 words to make it easier for students to learn. The procedure discussed in the booklet is based on the "word family" approach, in which words like "all call,…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Elementary Education, Sight Method, Sight Vocabulary
Peer reviewedTabe, Noble; Jackson, Merrill – Australia and New Zealand Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 1989
Sixteen moderately mentally retarded children, aged 9-13, were trained in sight words by manipulating pictorial stimuli (fading versus nonfading) in relationship to the word stimulus location (superimposition versus juxtaposition of picture and word), to orient the learner's attention to the word. Subjects who were trained using superimposition…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades, Moderate Mental Retardation, Pictorial Stimuli
Peer reviewedScott, L. Carol; And Others – Education and Treatment of Children, 1991
This study, involving a total of 36 preschool children, found that children recalled more sight words on object labels after introduction to the labels and daily repetition, compared to 2 other techniques. Children attending five days per week recalled more words than three-day and two-day students. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Environment, Drills (Practice), Instructional Effectiveness
Peer reviewedLindsey, Jimmy D.; And Others – Journal of Reading, 1981
Describes two word-recognition activities and a cross-age tutoring program that have proven successful in developing poor readers' sight vocabulary. (MKM)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Kinesthetic Methods, Language Experience Approach, Reading Skills
Peer reviewedFarrington, Pat – Reading, 1979
Discusses advantages--and a few disadvantages--of using social sight words (such as "sale,""stop," and "exit") in introducing young children to reading; suggests learning activities involving such words. (GT)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Early Experience, Early Reading
Peer reviewedWolery, Mark; And Others – Remedial and Special Education (RASE), 1990
This study found that constant time delay was effective in teaching word reading to four students (ages seven to eight) with mild handicaps. Individual attentional response was more effective and efficient in learning to spell words than in choral attentional response. Observational and incidental learning occurred for all students. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Attention, Beginning Reading, Incidental Learning, Individualized Programs
Ceprano, Maria A. – 1987
Designed to add to the existing knowledge base concerning the saliency of features used by children to identify isolated words, a study examined whether the method of instruction influences the extent to which various features are used for word identification and recall. Subjects, 117 kindergarten students from a suburban Buffalo, New York, school…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Behavior Patterns, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading)
