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SOME EFFECTS OF PERCEPTION TRAINING IN KINDERGARTEN ON FIRST GRADE SUCCESS IN READING.
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FAUSTMAN, MARION NEAL – 1967
A STUDY OF KINDERGARTEN PERCEPTION WAS MADE TO DETERMINE IF A FORMAL PROGRAM IN PERCEPTION IN KINDERGARTEN WOULD CONTRIBUTE TO THE GROWTH OF PERCEPTION IN CHILDREN AT THE END OF THE KINDERGARTEN YEAR AND TO SUCCESS AT THE FIRST-GRADE LEVEL. FOURTEEN KINDERGARTEN CLASSES WERE CHOSEN AT RANDOM FOR A CONTROL GROUP, AND 14 CLASSES WERE CHOSEN AT…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Kindergarten, Perceptual Development
Interpreting Errors in Word Recognition
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Cohen, Alice Sheff; Schwartz, Elaine – Reading Teacher, 1975
Suggests that perceptual problems may account for the difficulty young children experience in recognizing words. (RB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Perceptual Development, Reading Difficulty
The Relationship Between Visual Memory for Designs and Early Reading Achievement.
Benenson, Thea Fuchs – 1972
The main purpose of this investigation was to study the relationships between visual memory and early reading achievement. Short term and intermediate memory were examined in relation to vocabulary, reading comprehension, and reading readiness in first grade pupils. The Gates MacGinitie Readiness Skills Test; the Visual Memory for Designs Tests,…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Perception Tests
Does Visual Perception Training Help Beginning Readers?
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Church, Marilyn – Reading Teacher, 1974
Reports a study indicating that an informal program of training in visual perception was equivalent to a formal program both in producing better results on a visual perception measure and on a reading achievement test. (TO)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Perceptual Development, Reading Achievement
IDENTIFICATION OF INSTRUMENTS TO MEASURE SELECTED FACTORS RELATED TO SUCCESS IN BEGINNING READING OF CHILDREN OF DIFFERENT SOCIO-ECONOMIC STRATA.
ROBINSON, H. ALAN – 1965
A LONGITUDINAL STUDY WAS PERFORMED WHICH FOLLOWED THREE GROUPS OF CHILDREN (CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED, AVERAGE, AND CULTURALLY ADVANTAGED) THROUGH GRADE THREE IN AN ATTEMPT TO DETERMINE THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CERTAIN PERCEPTUAL FACTORS ON SUCCESS OR FAILURE IN BEGINNING READING. INSTRUMENTS USED WERE SELECTED TO IDENTIFY…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Concept Formation
A Comparison of the Effects of Two Programs on the Development of Visual Perception and Reading Achievement--Art: A Perceptual Approach and the Frostig Program for the Development of Visual Perception.
Johnson, Edith Curtice – 1976
Approximately 100 first-grade pupils participated in a study of the effects of art-learning strategies on perceptual development and reading achievement. Pupils were assigned to one of four conditions: a sequential program of art-learning experiences, the Frostig program for the development of visual perception, a combination of these two…
Descriptors: Art Education, Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Perceptual Development
The Development and Validation of an Individualized Perceptual Skills Curriculum.
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Rosner, Jerome – 1972
Having rejected the assumption that children meeting the criteria of "unimpaired" possess the basic perceptual skills needed to organize raw data into meaningful symbolic units, and the notion that children less adept in these skills can be categorized as "learning disabled" or "culturally disadvantaged," the Learning Research and Development…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Curriculum Development
A Learning Print Approach Toward Perceptual Training and Reading in Kindergarten.
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D'Annunzio, Anthony – 1975
The purpose of this research study was to compare two kinds of perceptual training for kindergarteners. A control group was grouped for instruction in visual or auditory perception. The children whose weaker modality was auditory received an "Open Court" program which stressed the acquisition of phonetic skills. The Frostig-Horne program was given…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Beginning Reading, Diagnostic Teaching, Learning Disabilities
READING ACHIEVEMENTS IN RELATION TO GROWTH IN PERCEPTION OF WORD ELEMENTS IN THREE TYPES OF BEGINNING READING INSTRUCTION.
MURPHY, HELEN A. – 1965
THE PROBLEMS EXAMINED IN THIS STUDY WERE (1) THE RELATIONSHIP OF PERCEPTION OF WORD ELEMENTS TO SIGHT VOCABULARY GROWTH, (2) THE EFFECT OF EARLY TEACHING OF A SPEECH-BASED PHONICS PROGRAM ON READING ACHIEVEMENT, AND (3) THE VALUE OF WRITING EMPHASIS IN THE SPEECH-BASED PHONICS PROGRAM. THREE READING PROGRAMS WERE INCLUDED IN THE STUDY, EACH USED…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 1
Prediction of End-Of-Year Reading Achievement for First and Third Grade Pupils.
Gruen, Ronald Steven – 1971
This study was designed to select and explore a research battery which, when administered at the beginning of the school year, more adequately predicts end of year reading achievement than have previously-used tests and test batteries. The tests used were perceptual-motor and cognitive-intellectual, with the most adequate predictor tests…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Reading