One hundred twenty kindergarten, second, third and combined fifth and sixth grade children were asked to cross out the letter "e" while silently reading appropriate prose passages. The children's ability was dependent upon grade level and whether the "e" was silent, pronounced, or in the word "the". (BD)

Examines patterns (and their internalization) of regularity underlying English orthography, graphic representations of specific phonemes in different environments, reactions of literate native speakers to correctness of different correspondences in these situations, and reactions of these informants to recognition tests involving alternative…

Reviews an archaic system of notation using tokens that is the direct progenitor of Sumerian writing. (HOD)

Describes Dr. John Henry Martin's theory of how children can learn to write phonetically before learning to read and how this theory developed into a computer-based teaching system called "Writing to Read." A program evaluation by Martin and IBM is discussed, and a source is given for further information. (MBR)

Skilled and less skilled beginning readers (n=54) were taught to read and define 10 printed pseudowords. Post-tests revealed that experimentals retaining spellings in memory as orthographic images remembered spellings better than controls who received comparable training without the memory component. (PN)

A familiarity effect in these experiments is defined as a subject's ability to respond more rapidly to a familiar stimulus than to an unfamiliar stimulus. Evidence indicates that familiarity does not affect an initial encoding process, but it can affect a comparison process. (Editor/RK)

Indicates that the teaching of rhyming words is the most efficient initial presentation of consonant-vowel-consonant words for beginning readers. (RB)

An explanation is given for the development of the Roman numeral system in terms of the smallest number of marks required to enumerate items. (RM)

This research compared the outcomes of teaching middle school students two different methods of classification and phylogeny. Two classes were randomly selected and taught using traditional methods of instruction. Three classes were taught using the "Pseudozoid" approach, where students learned to classify, develop and read dichotomous keys, and…

The Ss were required to retain a short list of items for an entire experiment while processing successive different short lists of items in the Sternberg paradigm. (Editor)

It is proposed that in the process of letter perception a preliminary nonverbal code is available in the right hemisphere until superceded by a verbal code in the left hemisphere. (Editor)

Article discussed two experiments in which the subjects recalled a trigram stimulus after copying a string of random consonants, using either the preferred or non-preferred hand and, as well, measured the latency of solving a simple mental arithmetic task under each of the two writing conditions. (Author/RK)

A brief glance at traditional orthographies and the initial teaching alphabet points up the need for spelling reform. (RB)

Discusses scientific research on the orthography factor in literacy acquisition. First, an i. t. a. experiment was carried out in Britain, and the second study was a comparision of literacy acquisition in 14 different countries. (Author/RK)