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Spring, Carl; And Others – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1979
Determined that kindergarten children needed more trials to learn a list of similar than dissimilar words but made fewer overgeneralization errors on subsequent transfer tasks. (HOD)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Kindergarten, Paired Associate Learning, Primary Education

Ehri, Linnea C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1976
In a paired associate task, readers and prereaders were taught five words as oral responses, each word paired with a distinctive nonsense figure. The results raise doubts about the effectiveness of teaching beginning readers sight vocabulary words printed on flash cards. (RC)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Context Clues, Elementary Education, Paired Associate Learning
Samuels, S. Jay; Wittrock, Merlin C. – J Educ Psychol, 1969
Research supported by the Cooperative Research Program of the U.S. Office of Education, CRP-S-378.
Descriptors: Adjectives, Beginning Reading, Nouns, Paired Associate Learning

Jenkins, Joseph R.; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1972
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Graphemes, Letters (Alphabet)
Elman, Elaine – 1973
This study was designed to investigate the differences in effectiveness in teaching sight words to kindergarten children by using words only (no-picture group), words and simple pictures (simple-picture group), and words and complex pictures (complex-picture group). The subjects were 30 kindergarten children selected from two kindergarten classes.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Kindergarten Children, Paired Associate Learning, Pictorial Stimuli