This workbook provides practice in helping children acquire pre-reading skills. The activities within the workbook are presented in sequence of difficulty, and directions precede each activity. Since language development is an important part of reading readiness, some pages of the workbook require presenting the child with a series of questions or…

A study was made of similarities and differences in parent-child interaction in two contexts: a book-reading activity and a home computer activity involving an alphabet program. A total of 20 children 3 years of age and their parents (10 children with mothers, 10 with fathers) were videotaped in two 12-minute sessions of each activity. A variety…

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…

Differences in perceptual processes of good and poor readers relevant to single word perception have been studied in a series of experiments. The major differences between good and poor readers have been shown to occur at the level of the single word; other differences occur in knowledge of spelling patterns and ability to make use of letters'…

THIS BOOK HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO SERVE AS AN INTRODUCTORY TEXTBOOK FOR THE STUDENT WHO WISHES A READING KNOWLEDGE OF MODERN MONGOLIAN. UPON COMPLETION OF THIS TEXT THE STUDENT SHOULD BE ABLE TO READ CURRENT PUBLICATIONS WITH THE AID OF A DICTIONARY. A BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF LINGUISTIC TERMINOLOGY ON THE PART OF THE STUDENT IS USEFUL BUT NOT ESSENTIAL.…

THIS SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTAINS MATERIALS ON VARIOUS ASPECTS OF READING ABILITY AND READING INSTRUCTION. UNANNOTATED REFERENCES ARE PROVIDED TO 110 DOCUMENTS DATING MAINLY FROM 1960 TO 1966. RESEARCH REPORTS, JOURNAL ARTICLES, CONFERENCE PAPERS, AND UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS ARE LISTED. SUBJECT AREAS INCLUDED ARE (1) BASAL READING, (2) THE…

Reading can be defined as a meaningful interaction with a print setting. Interactive models of reading assume that lower level and higher level processing occurs simultaneously, interacting with each other. The familiarity of the book, the context in which a sign occurs, and the illustrations of a book are all examples of print setting cues that…

The history of three non-Latin based orthographies--Chinese, Japanese, and Korean--is reviewed in this paper. The characteristics of the three orthographies are examined regarding the ease of learning to read with these varied symbol systems. Attention is given to the incidence of reading disability in different orthographies, and research is…

This two-volume introductory course in Sinhalese (also spelled Singhalese) is based on a standard variety of the official language of Ceylon as spoken by educated speakers of the South-Western coastal regions. Each of the lesson units (24 in Part I and 12 in Part II) has a conversation, a grammar section, and a set of exercises. Every fourth unit…

This publication contains pa ers contributed to the fifth Perspectives of Reading conference of the International Reading Association which focused on the teaching of beginning reading. The following approaches are described and evaluated: (1) individualized reading, (2) basal reading, (3) linguistic approach, (4) phonics approach, (5) new…

This study involving 207 adult city-core illiterates from Buffalo and Niagara Falls, New York, reading below third grade level, examined (a) educational characteristics and abilities of adult illiterates important to the improvement of reading materials and programs; (b) a study of the use of i.t.a. with adult-centered materials paced to adult…

The literature dealing with the identification process in beginning reading is surveyed. The first major section presents a review of the basal, Language Experience Approach, Phonic Word Method, linguistic, and i/t/a programs. Questions are raised about the empirical investigation of the subject matter and the instructional procedures used in…

The Cooperative Language Development Project studied the efficacy of the Initial Teaching Alphabet (ITA) in teaching beginning reading and the efficacy of the Peabody Language Development Kits in stimulating verbal intelligence, creative thinking, school achievement, and language development. In this monograph, a post-test and follow-up evaluation…

This work presents a linguistic study of the proverbs indigenous to Cairo (Egypt) culture. These forms recur in the everyday speech of both learned and unlearned Cairene Arabic speakers. The 900 proverbs, which are presented in phonemic transcription, are analyzed according to their phonological and stylistic characteristics, and then their…

The relationships between prereading measures of auditory discrimination, letter knowledge, and intelligence and reading ability were investigated for pupils who completed grades 1 and 2 in four different types of instructional programs--conventional basal reading programs, i/t/a programs, language-experience approaches, and code-emphasis…