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Peer reviewedMiller, Etta – Elementary School Journal, 1979
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Learning Modalities
Sensenig, Larry D.; And Others – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1989
The study examined the effectiveness of using sign language (Signing Exact English) to facilitate reading in students classified as trainable mentally handicapped. Results indicated that subjects learning to read words with an accompanying sign identified and retained significantly more vocabulary than did students learning to read in a…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Modalities
Austin, Mary C.; Donovan, Margaret A. – 1978
The inconclusive results of research comparing beginning reading methodologies in the 1960s led many schools to change their approaches to beginning reading instruction. In the 1970s the focus has shifted from the belief in a single method as superior for all children to the attempt to match methodology to the needs of individual children. A…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Dimensional Preference, Elementary Education, Learning
King, Dwade Robert – 1975
This study compared 5 groups (45 each) of disadvantaged first grade children learning to read 16 basic sight vocabulary words. The subjects were enrolled in 1 of 16 classrooms on three campuses of a school district in Texas located on the southern border between the United States and Mexico. Furthermore, all spoke Spanish as their first language.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingual Students, Cognitive Processes, Disadvantaged Youth
Bryant, N. Dale; And Others – 1979
This research review on basic reading skills begins with an historical perspective on reading methods, followed by an overview of reading instruction methods for the general population. Research findings are presented on several instructional methods, including phonetic, linguistic, artificial orthography, basal reading, and language experience…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Download full textJohnson, Doris J. – 1976
An exploration of specific deficits of learning disabled children, especially in the auditory system, is presented in this paper. Disorders of attention, perception, phonemic and visual discrimination, memory, and symbolization and conceptualization are considered. The paper develops several questions for teachers of learning disabled children to…
Descriptors: Attention, Beginning Reading, Conference Reports, Diagnostic Teaching
Donovan, Margaret A.; Austin, Mary C. – 1978
A study of the effects of modality preferences and teacher competencies on reading achievement was undertaken using three different programs for initial reading instruction. The major purposes of the study were to determine differences in reading achievement when first grade children are placed in programs congruent or noncongruent with their…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Dimensional Preference, Learning, Learning Modalities
