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Clay, Marie M. – 1979
The difficulties children face as they are learning to read is the focus of this book, which is a collection of children's work (drawings and handwriting), with statements exploring their implications. The introduction discusses the relationship between early writing and early reading, individual differences, the question of age norms, questions…
Descriptors: Abbreviations, Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Beginning Writing
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Evans, Mary Ann; Bell, Michelle; Shaw, Deborah; Moretti, Shelley; Page, Jodi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2006
In this study 149 kindergarten children were assessed for knowledge of letter names and letter sounds, phonological awareness, and cognitive abilities. Through this it examined child and letter characteristics influencing the acquisition of alphabetic knowledge in a naturalistic context, the relationship between letter-sound knowledge and…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Kindergarten, Young Children, Alphabets
Birch, Barbara M. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2007
This book remains a comprehensive, myth-debunking examination of how L1 features (orthographic system, phonology, morphology) can influence English L2 reading at the "bottom" of the reading process. It provides a thorough but very accessible linguistic/psycholinguistic examination of the lowest levels of the reading process. It is both theoretical…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Instruction
Biscaye, Elizabeth; Pepper, Mary – 1989
The 1986 report by the Canadian Task Force on Aboriginal Languages, which recommended that the writing systems used for the northern Dene languages be standardized within 10 years, resulted in the 1987 Dene Standardization Project. The mandate for the project was to make recommendations on orthography standardization as the first step in the…
Descriptors: Alphabets, American Indian Languages, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations
Gregory, Christine M. – 1993
A case study involved the adaptation of Reading Recovery technique in an attempt to improve the alphabet knowledge of a kindergarten student. Over a 2-week period, recovery techniques were employed in one-on-one sessions, the goal of which was to increase the student's ability to recognize and produce five letters of the alphabet. Assessments…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Early Intervention, Instructional Effectiveness, Kindergarten
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1983
THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT (Except for the Evaluation Summary Table): VERSION: 3.3. PRODUCER: Hartley Courseware, Inc., Box 431, Dimondale, Michigan 48821. EVALUATION COMPLETED: January 1983 at the North Clackamas School District, Milwaukie, Oregon, and at Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, Portland, Oregon. COST:…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Programs, Drills (Practice)
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1982
THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT (Except for the Evaluation Summary Table): PRODUCER: Random House, Inc., School Division, 1970 Brandywine Rd., Atlanta, Georgia 30341. EVALUATION COMPLETED: June 1982 by staff of the Portland Public Schools, Oregon. COST: Cassette: $24 Disk: $34.50. ABILITY LEVEL: K-1. SUBJECT: Reading: location of…
Descriptors: Alphabetizing Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs, Drills (Practice)
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Engel, G. R. – Canadian Journal of Psychology, 1974
The object of this investigation was to demonstrate whether or not the predictabilities of the individual letters of words influence recognition of a word. The results indicate that letter predictability influences both accurate word recognition and letter recognition. (DE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Research, Letters (Alphabet), Psychological Studies
Catach, Nina – Francais dans le monde, 1974
(Text is in French.)
Descriptors: French, Generative Grammar, Graphemes, Initial Teaching Alphabet
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Lane, Alaine – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1974
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Exceptional Child Research, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Intermediate Grades
Meadow, Anthony, Ed. – Newsletter for Asian and Middle Eastern Languages on Computer, 1986
Volume 1, numbers 3 and 4, of the newsletter on the use of non-Western languages with computers contains the following articles: "Reversing the Screen under MS/PC-DOS" (Dan Brink); "Comments on Diacritics Using Wordstar, etc. and CP/M Software for Non-Western Languages" (Michael Broschat); "Carving Tibetan in Silicon: A…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software, Diacritical Marking
Klumb, Kelly; Coe, Tony – 1989
Selecting from a wide variety of sources, this report presents instructional techniques for the remediation of letter reversal errors in young students' writing. The techniques in the report have been applied in classrooms and found to be successful with a great majority of students. Sections of the report include: (1) an introduction; (2)…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Handwriting, Instructional Materials, Letters (Alphabet)
1979
This workbook provides practice, for children at the first grade level, in spelling 52 basic sight words and high-interest words which are found in primers and preprimers and relate to the child's immediate world. Throughout the workbook letter practice pages precede word practice pages. Special sentence pages that offer the child opportunities to…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Learning Activities, Letters (Alphabet), Primary Education
Chastain, Garvin; And Others – 1981
It has been hypothesized that letters in orthographic strings (those that follow the rules of English) are more accurately identified than letters in nonorthographic strings because confusions about the positions of letters are more likely in nonorthographic strings. This hypothesis was tested by giving 16 college students a set of targets, one of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Higher Education, Letters (Alphabet)
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MacWhinney, Brian; Marengo, Kathy – Transcript Analysis, 1986
Two articles propose two systems for American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) translations of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA): Multibet 1.0 and Unibet 1.0. Multibet 1.0 consists of a set of names and a set of ASCII translations for the letters and diacritics of the 1979 version of the "Principles of the…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Classification, Computer Oriented Programs, Diacritical Marking
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