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Samuels, S. Jay – 1970
A laboratory and a classroom study were conducted to determine if verbal association learning would be facilitated by visual discrimination training. Kindergarten children who could not recognize the letters used were the subjects for both studies. In the laboratory study, 90 subjects were randomly assigned to the experimental group (E) which got…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Discrimination Learning, Kindergarten Children, Letters (Alphabet)
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Shaw, Eva – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1979
Comparing the effectiveness of four methods for training young children (4-4.5 years) in the skills of visual discrimination necessary to letter knowledge acquisition, this study indicates that training in oral description of critical cues of letters contributes to superior achievement in learning to match letters. (JC)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Early Childhood Education, Letters (Alphabet), Recognition (Psychology)
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Muraishi, Shozo – 1976
The Language Play Method (LPM), a teaching method developed to systematically instruct preschool children in the structure of Japanese and Hiragana letters, is described in this paper. LPM develops three fundamental abilities which contribute to oral skill and literacy in kindergartners: the ability to recognize letters, the ability to decode…
Descriptors: Character Recognition, Decoding (Reading), Educational Games, Elementary Education
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Goldman, Ronald; And Others – 1968
Designed to enable parents to help preschool, speech handicapped children enrolled in a program of speech correction by using materials based on the Initial Teaching Alphabet (ITA), these activities correlate with those used in therapy. A short period of time (15 to 20 minutes), a relaxed atmosphere, a regular schedule, and a quiet,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Training, Exceptional Child Education