This bibliography cites periodicals, books, sections of books, and articles having to do with the initial teaching alphabet. Entries include American and European publications, most published since 1965. (CLK)

A great deal of disagreement exists as to whether the writing systems of the Brahmi family of scripts from Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent and the Hangul script of Korea should be classified as alphabets or syllabaries. Both have in common a mixture of syllabic and alphabetic characteristics that has spawned vigorous disagreement among…

Eighty sighted male Ss participated in a study to determine the effect of the size of the braille cell on the rate of learning the names for braille symbols of letters of the alphabet (A-J and K-T). Study size (standard or large braille), test size (standard or large braille) and item set (A-J or K-T) were manipulated in a study-test procedure…

Approximately 7,500 entries are included in this Nengone-English dictionary. (Its counterpart, the English-Nengone dictionary, is to be published separately in the same series.) Each entry appears with its index number, part of speech, definition, and an example of its usage. The orthography used throughout is that of the London Mission Society…

This 25-page description of Choctaw morphology or word structure is based on the spelling of words provided by "A Choctaw Orthography," written by the same author for the Choctaw Bilingual Education Program of Southeastern State College, Durant, Oklahoma. (See AL 002 770 for the companion volume.) In this work, the author defines some frequently…

Presents the results of a questionnaire survey sent in Spring 1974 to 321 libraries with substantial holdings of works in dissimilar scripts. (Author/PF)

Outlines three criteria that alphabet books should follow to effectively aid childrens' learning. Shows that Caldecott-winner "Alphabatics" (Suse MacDonald) violates these standards. (ARH)

Three studies were conducted to investigate changes in global procedures (memory for a whole word), component procedures (memory for a letter in a word), and serial procedures (memory for a letter sequence in a word) as a function of learning to read. (PCB)

The U.S. Navy and other services use the same 26-letter alphabet that people use every day, but they substitute a word for each letter. You might pronounce the letter "a" when spelling the word a-n-t. A sailor uses words in place of each letter, making a-n-t into "alpha-november-tango." This system prevents mix-ups between…

The current spelling of words in English is so lacking in consistency that the time is ripe for the adoption of an alphabet that embodies some semblance of phonetics. This paper proposes a new alphabet for English that uses the English (Roman) letters as elements so that current type and typewriters can still be used. Furthermore, allowance is…

A new era for multilingual, multiscript computing is beginning, due to the development of the Unicode Standard and International Standard ISO/IEC 10646. The character content in these publications is kept carefully synchronized. With the addition of Ethiopic, Mongolian, and Sinhala, all of the world's major scripts are covered. Catalogers may…

Suggested procedures for art teachers which can get results quickly and painlessly in the teaching of lettering for posters and other projects. (CB)

This study evaluated the ability of the kindergarten and first grade Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS), measures of early literacy development, to discriminate among low average, average, and above average students considered at risk emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) on the Total Reading cluster of the Woodcock…

Problem behaviors early in the preschool year have been negatively linked to a variety of school readiness outcomes, including language, literacy and mathematics, both at the end of preschool and later on as children transition to elementary school. In order to inform preschool intervention efforts, the current study extends this research by…