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Alonzo, Julie; Tindal, Gerald – Behavioral Research and Teaching, 2007
In this technical report, the authors describe the development alternate forms of three types of early literacy measures as part of a comprehensive progress monitoring literacy assessment system developed in 2006 for use with students in Kindergarten through fourth grade. They begin with a brief overview of the two conceptual frameworks underlying…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Measures (Individuals), Naming, Alphabets
Frantz, Donald G.; Russell, Norma Jean – 1995
The dictionary of stems, roots, and affixes for the Blackfoot language provides, for each entry, information on the item's morphological type (e.g., noun stem, verb stem, root), subclassification if relevant, English index, and certain diagnostic inflectional forms (full words or sentences), each with an English translation. In addition, entries…
Descriptors: Alphabets, American Indian Languages, Canada Natives, Dictionaries
Jacobson, Anna W.; Jacobson, Steven A., Ed. – 1996
This guide to conversational language in Yup'ik Eskimo is designed to accompany audiotape recordings (not included here). It contains the phrases and sentences used in 30 lessons. A brief introduction comments on the format of the text. Lessons are on these topics: Yup'ik phonology and common brief expressions; exclamations; greetings and…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Alphabets, Conversational Language Courses, Daily Living Skills
Merkoski, Kay – 1988
Three activity booklets are presented for implementing Project EAGLE, an enrichment program for gifted and talented kindergarten children. The first activity booklet contains a poem by J. D. Evans titled "In Search of the Xanthus," which describes the search for an imaginary beast that leaves an "X" on the spot where it used to be. The second…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Enrichment Activities, Gifted, Kindergarten
Howards, Melvin – 1985
A teacher educator describes his teaching experience in China and his finding that the Western behaviorist, alphabetic, linear mode of thinking has been widely adopted in education in that traditionally ideographic culture. The contrasting relationships of language, thought and behavior in the American and Chinese cultures is examined, and it is…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Behaviorism, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
Massaro, Dominic W.; And Others – 1980
A study assessed the role of orthographic structure in college students' perceptual recognition and judgment of letter strings. Lexical status, word frequency, bigram frequency, log bigram frequency, and regularity of letter sequencing were orthogonally varied across a series of experiments. Six-letter words and their anagrams were used as test…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English, Higher Education, Letters (Alphabet)
Francis, Timothy P.; Hanchey, Stephen – 1979
An instructional guide to written Mauritanian Arabic contains 20 lessons, each presenting one or more letters of the Arabic alphabet and script. Graded exercises are included. The course is intended to be taught as the first stage in the Mauritanian Arabic training program for Peace Corps volunteers. The manual is entirely in Arabic. (MSE)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Arabic, Basic Skills, Class Activities
Brannstrom, Lauritz – 1980
Visual acuity as a function of target position and density was measured in a letter recognition task. A homogeneous pattern of equally-spaced elements was tachistoscopically exposed, where the target was never located at the boundaries of the pattern. The target was marked with a spatial cue to control attentional processes. With such a spatial…
Descriptors: Cues, Dimensional Preference, Letters (Alphabet), Patterned Responses
Ardino, Jo Tagliente – 1983
Efficient handwriting plays an important role in strengthening virtually all other school skills. One method of teaching handwriting involves personifying the letters in order to make writing more interesting, meaningful, and fun. The first lesson shows students the correct sitting position and the proper way to hold a pen. The next lesson has the…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Language Arts, Letters (Alphabet), Primary Education
Fehring, Heather; Thomas, Valerie – 1984
Recognizing that learning to spell is a complex, active process of discovery, this book presents some suggestions for the teaching of spelling that may be incorporated into different types of language programs and adapted to suit the needs of children with a range of spelling abilities. Following the introduction, a section on beginning spelling…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Language Acquisition
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Katre, Dinesh S. – Journal of Educational Technology, 2005
Transactional Analysis (TA) of teaching and learning process reveals actions and reactions triggered from the ego-states of teacher and learner. The teacher has to switch between these ego-states to achieve effective communication and learning results. Ego-states of teacher and learners are worth studying in the context of e-learning, as the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychotherapy, Electronic Learning, Teacher Behavior
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Hayes, Robert B.; Wuest, Richard C. – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Inservice Teacher Education
Flagg, Barbara N.; And Others – 1976
Formative research on the eye movements of children in the older age range of "Sesame Street's" target audience was conducted and results were used to answer a range of formative questions concerning television programing goals and their implementation. Forty-six low-income, black and caucasian children, ranging in age from 4.9 to 6.9…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Classification, Comprehension, Eye Movements
Chastain, Garvin; And Others – 1981
The hypothesis that word context reduces visual rather than acoustic confusion between possible targets was tested in a series of experiments. All involved tachistoscopic presentation of letter strings followed by a pattern mask. Data from eight college students showed that target letters that are confusable only visually and acoustically…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Decoding (Reading)
Kari, James, Comp.; And Others – 1978
This dictionary contains lists of nouns in the Holikachuk Athabaskan language as spoken by about twenty people, most of whom live in the village of Grayling, Alaska. The Holikachuk alphabet and sound system are presented. The nouns with English equivalents are listed according to the following categories: animals, fish, insects, birds, plants,…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Alphabets, American Indian Languages, Athapascan Languages
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