Many introductory courses to cryptology and computer security start with or include a discussion of classical ciphers that usually contemplates some cryptanalysis techniques used to break them. Ganzua (picklock in Spanish) is an application designed to assist the cryptanalysis of ciphertext obtained with monoalphabetic or polyalphabetic ciphers.…

Two longitudinal studies were conducted to investigate the development of Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children's ability to spell words in light of Ferreiro's and Ehri's models of spelling development. Twenty children participated in the 1st study. Their spelling skills were evaluated periodically from ages 4 to 6 years. The 124 children who…

Children (n = 122) and adults (n = 200) with dyslexia completed rapid automatic naming (RAN) letters, rapid automatic switching (RAS) letters and numbers, executive function (inhibition, verbal fluency), and phonological working memory tasks. Typically developing 3rd (n = 117) and 5th (n = 103) graders completed the RAS task. Instead of analyzing…

Acquisition of orthographic knowledge and phonemic sensitivity are processes that are central to early reading development in several languages. The language-specific characteristics of the alphasyllabaries ( Bright, 1996), however, challenge the constructs of orthographic knowledge and phonemic sensitivity as discussed in the context of…

"Children's Choices," a project of a joint committee supported by the International Reading Association (IRA) and the Children's Book Council, is published annually in "The Reading Teacher." Books recommended by children are grouped by levels: Beginning Reader (ages 5-7); Young Readers (ages 8-10); and Advanced Readers (ages…

The purpose of this study was to describe literacy instruction in child care centers, examine aspects of child care center quality that may predict such instruction, and provide a limited analysis of whether literacy instruction impacts children's concurrent pre-academic functioning. Staff and children in 103 classrooms serving preschool-age…

From showing readers the longest words in common usage (22 letters--counterrevolutionaries, deinstitutionalization), to providing readers with a list of words in which all 5 vowels must appear in alphabetical order (abstemious, facetious), to discovering the name in an American phone book where the most letters of the alphabet are used without…

Discusses the positive effects that can be gained from using the initial teaching alphabet in beginning reading instruction. (RB)

Ten functionally nonreading subjects were quickly taught letter-sound associations by an object-imaging-projecting method utilizing 26 actual objects found around the home, each object having a name whose beginning sound is a letter sound, and having a form very similar to the letter form. (Author/DB)

The numerals 2-9 were randomly imbedded at one of three locations within words, pronounceable word fragments, and random sequences of letters which were presented tachistoscopically in random order to 24 Ss in a 3 x 3 repeated measures design. (Editor)

This study examines the effect of instruction to generate memorable as opposed to grammatical sentences from letter strings of varying lengths. (Editor)

Numbers 1 and 2 of the first volume of the newsletter contains an editor's page and the following articles: "Diacritics on Wordstar: South Asian Language Transliteration without Customized Software" by Tony Stewart; "The Universal Typewriter" by David K. Wyatt and Douglas S. Wyatt; "Multi-Lingual Word-Processing Systems:…

Concludes that those taught feature analysis did not excel in naming letters but did differ significantly in the kinds of errors made. (RB)