Coaching is the central activity in the "game" of teaching, and it is an activity that can have a lifetime effect on language learners. This book presents a "coaching approach" to instruction in written language--an approach that is eclectic, pragmatic, synthetic. The approach in the book centers on finding balance--ways of…

This textbook is a first reader that focuses on moving children from spoken to written vocabulary and recognizing by sight words already familiar by sound. The combination of construction with interpretation, of writing with reading leads directly to intelligent understanding and expression of thoughts on the written or printed page. It is…

This textbook is a fourth reader that uses supplementary reading, memory exercises, exercises in oral and written expression, vocal training, and phonic analysis. Poetry, prose, and biographies are included.

The editor of Elementary English'' discusses editing procedures now that an important new aspect of editing has been added, the avoidance of sexist use of language in all National Council of Teachers of English publications. (RB)

Results indicate that increasing sentence length decreased recall and that objects were recalled more easily than verbs. (RB)

This study gives factual information on the current usage of 29 items by American writers, based on the Brown University Corpus of American English, a selection of samples of prose, coded on magnetic tape in a format accessible to computerized inquiries. (Author)

Provides teachers with an understanding of how sighted children develop concepts about print and how blind children develop concepts about braille. Prereading activities designed to extend young children's concepts about print are adapted for blind children. (HTH)

Titular colonicity (presence of colon in title) is shown to index the progress of scholarship over a century. Analysis of 1,150 titles in education, psychology, and literary criticism reveals use of the colon in the majority of contemporary titles across disciplines, thereby demonstrating the progressive complexity of scholarship. (Author/MLW)

Concludes, from a study of 60 sixth, eighth, and tenth graders, that a closer correspondence between orthography and phonology seems to develop with age and exposure to written language. (DD)

Drawing on a corpus of spoken and written German obtained from the "Institut fuer Grunddeutsch," it is shown that the dative ending -e which occurs in strong masculine and neuter nouns is disappearing, especially in spoken German. (IFS/WGA)

Examines the rendering of personal, commercial, and geographic foreign names in Chinese, in order to make some observations about Chinese script. (AM)

Lists a number of ways in which writing differs from speech, and encourages writing teachers not to uncritically adapt oral rhetorical techniques to writing. (DD)

Discusses problems arising in academic writing when name changes occur, making it difficult to keep up with a person's work over time and to know that the same person was involved in two publications with names that look different. Argues that these naming practices and others must be considered in preparing students from cultures with different…

Noting that the naming of Chinese characters involves lexical access not present in alphabetic orthographies, this study sought to locate the frequency effects in lexical decisions and naming of Chinese characters. Results indicated that a clear frequency/regularity interaction exists in regular and lexical naming, but this interaction is…

Compares the predictive value of rime spellings in English to other types of regularities beyond the level of the single letter. Computer-analyzes a list of 24,000 written words, each paired with its corresponding pronunciation. Reveals that only a small number of rime spellings are highly regular in pronunciations. Suggests English spelling is…