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Cathcart, Maureen – Elementary English, 1973
Examines the relative merits of the language experience approach, the basal reader approach, and the individualized reading approach for beginning reading instruction, concluding that individualized reading has the advantage of fitting the needs of the student. (RB)
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Individualized Reading, Language Experience Approach
Download full textTuinman, J. Jaap – 1971
The author explains that there does not exist one single method of teaching reading since there are different teaching styles and preferences of individual teachers; varied backgrounds, experiences, and abilities among children; and different school administration considerations. Five approaches for teaching reading are described. (1) The…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Independent Reading, Individualized Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Stauffer, Russell G.; Hammond, W. Dorsey – Reading Res Quart, 1969
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Cognitive Processes, Creative Writing, Grade 3
Vilscek, Elaine C.; Cleland, Donald L. – 1968
The extended effects of two instructional approaches, the Coordinated Basal Language Arts Approach and the Integrated Experience Approach to Communication, on pupils' language development at the second- and third-grade levels were investigated. Original subjects were 669 first graders who were pretested for readiness and intelligence. Of these,…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Language Experience Approach
Moyle, Donald; Moyle, Louise M. – 1971
Recent approaches and techniques of teaching reading are surveyed in this monograph in a series of the United Kingdom Reading Association. Books, kits, programed learning packages, and reading hardware such as tapes, typewriters, and films are described and evaluated for their usefulness to the classroom teacher. Four major philosophies of reading…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Language Experience Approach, Programed Instructional Materials
Fryburg, Estelle L. – 1972
One hundred native-born, disadvantaged black children were the subject of this study which proposed the following hypotheses: (1) Subjects proficient in spoken language ability would achieve greater gains in reading ability than those deficient in spoken language ability; however, the former group would vary negligibly among sub-groups in reading…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Research, Language Ability
Spache, George D. – 1972
This book reviews research on the teaching of elementary reading and summarizes the research in such a way as to make it useful to the elementary school teacher. A number of methods and procedures of instruction are considered. The first chapter discusses when to begin reading and general topics related to teaching young children, and the second…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Elementary Education, Individualized Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. – 1971
Descriptions of reading programs and services related to elementary reading instruction in 16 Washington, D.C. schools are included in this report. Data are reported for grade levels only and combines information for all schools. Basal readers are the most commonly used materials, with approaches used with these materials varying greatly across…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Kerfoot, James F. – 1965
This publication contains pa ers contributed to the fifth Perspectives of Reading conference of the International Reading Association which focused on the teaching of beginning reading. The following approaches are described and evaluated: (1) individualized reading, (2) basal reading, (3) linguistic approach, (4) phonics approach, (5) new…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Individualized Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Jenkins, Joseph R.; Pany, Darlene – 1978
This report describes several prominent reading comprehension programs for use in grades three through eight and discusses some research studies on these programs effectiveness in terms of student achievement. Three basal reading series are compared and descriptions are given of the DISTAR reading and language programs, objective-based reading…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach
Riendeau, Betty A. – 1973
The purpose of this study was to determine and to interpret the effect of two differing approaches to reading instruction on the self-social concepts of first grade children. The concepts analyzed were self-esteem; social interest; individuation; complexity; realism; identifications with mother, father, teacher, and friend; and preferences for…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 1
Kerfoot, James F. – 1965
This publication contains papers contributed to the fifth Perspectives of Reading conference of the International Reading Association which focused on the teaching of beginning reading. The following approaches are described and evaluated: (1) individualized reading, (2) basal reading, (3) linguistic approach, (4) phonics approach, (5) new…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Individualized Reading
McC. Gallagher, Jo Anne – 1975
The purpose of this study was to determine whether lower-class students would exhibit greater retention of reading vocabulary with a language experience approach to reading than with a basal text approach. Sixty low socioeconomic level students from the seven first grades of one elementary school in a small South Carolina town were randomly…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 1
O'Donnell, C. Michael P. – 1968
Seventy-eight kindergarten children were randomly placed in four experimental classrooms. Two of the classes were taught with the basal reader approach to reading readiness, and two were taught with the conceptual-language program approach. An extensive pretest battery was given to these children in October 1967. Instruction in the two approaches…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis
Stauffer, Russell G., Ed. – 1967
Twenty-seven summaries of first-grade reading studies sponsored by the United States Office of Education are included. The studies, done in the 1964-65 school year, were made in different localities, and each was concerned with a different problem. More than one-half of the directors were full-time college professors; a few were senior authors of…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 1
