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Download full textManitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. – 1967
READING PROGRAMS IN THE ELEMENTARY GRADES IN MANITOBA, CANADA, WERE STUDIED OVER A 4-YEAR PERIOD TO DETERMINE WHAT TYPES OF PROGRAMS WERE IN EFFECT AND TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO IMPROVE THE TEACHING OF READING. INCLUDED IN THE REPORT ARE (1) A SURVEY OF READING IN MANITOBA FROM 1946-1966, (2) A DESCRIPTION OF THE CONTENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Guides, Elementary Education
Liston, Mary C. – 1980
Describing the early reader as one who has learned to read informally at home before formal schooling has begun, this paper reviews the literature on two aspects of early reading. The first aspect considered is the home environment of the early reader and the interactions with his or her parents. The second aspect considered is the process by…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Family Environment, Learning Processes, Parent Child Relationship
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1980
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 31 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) teaching strategies for reading comprehension; (2) strategies for assigning meaning to unfamiliar words in context; (3) differential processing of explicit and…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Secondary Education
Baumann, James F. – 1981
There is some confusion in discriminating basic educational research (which explores the why's and how's of learning) from applied research (which seeks to test the implications of basic research results) because some investigations are conceived without a clear purpose. Thus, it is not uncommon for researchers to suggest implications that…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Byers, Joe L.; Evans, Thomas E. – 1980
A total of 29 teachers and 227 elementary school students participated in a study that examined teachers' judgments of their students' reading preferences as indicated by book selections. Children were asked to choose books they would like to read from a list of book descriptions. Teachers were then asked to predict their selections. Results…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Childhood Interests, Congruence (Psychology), Decision Making
Blass, Rosanne J.; And Others – 1979
Noting that the idea of reading as a natural language communication process has been well established by research, this paper identifies learning strategies and suggests teaching methods for developing the young child's awareness of the communication nature of reading. The paper concludes that learning strategies based on imitation, drawing, and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Communication Skills, Concept Formation
Steffensen, Margaret S.; Guthrie, Larry F. – 1980
A study varied a formal testing situation to encourage verbalization in black, inner-city nursery school children. The children were asked to identify items from the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test in either a test situation (looking at the stimulus jointly with an adult) or a "need to know" situation (looking at the stimulus alone). It…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Disadvantaged Youth, Evaluation Methods, Inner City
Keene, Mary Emma – 1980
A study was conducted to determine what beliefs secondary school students held about reading and to compare those beliefs with a set of elementary school teachers' beliefs identified by G. Duffy and W. Metheny. Three hundred high school students from freshman, junior, and senior social studies classes completed a revised version of the 45-item…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, High School Students
PDF pending restorationShepardson, Marie E.; And Others – 1977
Using the search strategies described in preliminary project reports, research synthesis and/or analysis materials were selected for inclusion in the three annotated bibliographies in this final report. Topics are: (1) Basic Skills: Mathematics, (2) Basic Skills: Reading, and (3) Competency Based Education. Preceding the bibliographies are…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Basic Reading, Competency Based Education, Educational Policy
Malmquist, Eve – 1978
A variety of factors related to beginning reading in Sweden are considered in this paper. Among the topics discussed are the following: age of school entrance and beginning reading, factors related to school maturity and reading readiness, the importance of appropriate teaching techniques in the critical beginning stages of reading instruction,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Education, Early Childhood Education, Early Reading
Day, Kaaren C.; Day, H. D. – 1978
A study originally involving 56 children from four schools was undertaken to observe the development of children's oral language and concepts of print during the kindergarten year using the Record of Oral Language (ROL) and the Concepts about Print (Sand) tests. In addition, the Sand test was administered early in the first grade to the available…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Concept Formation, Kindergarten Children, Language Acquisition
Sawyer, Diane J., Ed. – 1980
Focusing on helping teachers to understand and help children who have reading disabilities, the 13 papers in this volume were prepared by practitioners at various levels from public school, community, and university settings. The papers included in part one offer insights into the concomitant aspects of reading difficulties. Specific topics…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Inservice Education, Learning Disabilities
Rossmiller, Richard; Otto, Wayne – 1979
This annotated bibliography of publications by the Wisconsin Research and Development Center for Individualized Schooling provides teachers and administrators with information sources that could improve individualized instruction and learning in elementary and secondary schools. Seventy-one technical reports, theoretical papers, and working papers…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Development, Computer Managed Instruction, Educational Change
King, Kenneth, Ed. – 1978
The nine papers in this document represent the final report of a workshop on research on literacy in developing countries. It is noted in the introduction by Kenneth King that research in literacy tends to be performed by persons who are also literacy activists and that the problem of motivation seems to be central to most literacy research. It is…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Educational Research
Bradtmueller, Weldon G. – 1978
Compressed speech (speed listening), in which audiotapes are speeded up, is examined in this paper along with its relationship to the reading process. Among the topics discussed first are the close relationship between reading and listening, the rationale behind compressed speech, and the use of compressed speech in business communication, special…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Intelligence
