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Peer reviewedHammill, Donald; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1974
Examines the effectiveness of Frostig-Horne and Kephart-Getman techniques and materials in developing the perceptual and motor skills of young children. (TO)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Learning Processes, Perceptual Development, Perceptual Motor Learning
Download full textKARRAKER, R.J. – 1968
RECENT RESEARCH ON THE DISCRIMINATION PROCESS INDICATES THAT ERRORLESS LEARNING CAN OCCUR IF STIMULI ARE CAREFULLY PROGRAMED SO THAT THEY ARE DISSIMILAR AND GRADUALLY BECOME MORE SIMILAR AS TRAINING PROCEEDS. TO ASSESS THIS APPROACH IN TEACHING THE LOWER- CASE LETTER B AND D WITH KINDERGARTEN SUBJECTS, TWO SETS OF STIMILI CONSTITUTED THE FIRST…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Discrimination Learning, Lateral Dominance, Mental Age
Santa, Carol M. – 1975
Two experiments were conducted with children to determine the units of word perception used in recognizing isolated words. In the first experiment, kindergarten children practiced visually discriminating whole words (big, pig, dig), single letters (b, p, d), or geometric forms (triangle, circle, square) before learning to read three words (big,…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Kindergarten Children, Primary Education, Reading Readiness
Peer reviewedLovgren, George – Reading Improvement, 1977
Describes ways for developing visual imagery in the early childhood education program, preparing children for discrimination learning and reading instruction. (RL)
Descriptors: Children, Discrimination Learning, Early Childhood Education, Reading Readiness
PURDY, ROBERT J.; AND OTHERS – 1968
DEVELOPMENTAL SKILLS IMPORTANT TO READING READINESS ARE PRESENTED WITH SUGGESTIONS TO HELP TEACHERS OFFER EXPERIENCES FOR EACH CHILD ON THE BASIS OF HIS LEVEL OF SUCCESSFUL PERFORMANCE. SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHER OBSERVATION AND EVALUATION OF THE CHILD'S LEVEL OF VISUAL, MOTOR, SPEECH, AND LANGUAGE SKILLS AND PLANS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR DEVELOPMENTAL…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Developmental Tasks, Language Skills, Learning Activities
Smith, Helen K., Ed. – 1968
This bulletin is a compilation of papers dealing with the role of perceptual functions in reading and reading difficulties that were delivered at the 1966-67 Convention of the International Reading Association. Various sections are devoted to discussions of and reports of research on such matters as the auditory and visual modalities in reading,…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Learning Modalities, Paired Associate Learning, Perception
Vernon, Magdalen D., Comp. – 1973
The lengthy annotations in this bibliography of recent research on visual perception and its relation to reading are classified in four main groupings: (1) development of perception of complex forms and attention to significant details, (2) the ability to perceive visual form in relation to reading, (3) perception of letters and words, and (4)…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Students, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Simpson, Dorothy M. – 1968
The author gives an account of her early teaching experiences, her awareness that many children did not learn to read, her early investigations of readiness, and her conclusions that difficulty in numbers, copying, or tracing were closely related to reading disability. The importance of visual perception, eye motility, early child development, and…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Evaluation Methods, Exceptional Child Education, Eye Movements
