"Alpha-Pets" are the focal point of an integrated, multidisciplinary curriculum. Each pet is featured for a week in a vocabulary-rich story and introduces related activities beginning with the featured letter, such as the four food groups during Freddie Fish's week or universe during Ulysses Unicorn's week. (MT)

Outlines the structure of a printer driven program that converts Romanized texts, composed with the aid of standard word-processing software, into codes that enable a dot matrix printer to produce high-quality printouts in various non-Roman scripts. (Author/SED)

In a whole-language kindergarten, children learn language skills in a social context. Suggestions on how to develop activities that focus on a different letter of the alphabet each week are offered. These activities tie together all areas of the curriculum. (DF)

Compares two studies (41 middle-class preschool and kindergarten children ages three to six in Argentina versus a similar group in Tucson) which show how children in two parts of the world, speaking different languages, used the same kind of hypothesis testing to make sense of print. (CT)

Reports a study in which the letters F, G, and K were presented in normal and backward versions, in varying angular orientations, in left and right visual fields. (Author/NH)

Two experiments are an attempt to provide a description of three commonly observed phenomena of recognition behavior for alphabet characters in terms of the mathematics of correlation. (Author/KM)

Purpose of this study was to ascertain the efficiency of the first letter mnemonic as a memorization strategy. (Authors)

Discusses the rules for correct alphabetization for languages and in automated alphabetization the rules for what must be done as well as what must not be done. (Author)

Compares the effects of ITA and TO instruction; based on Auguste's master's thesis, Queens College, New York, n. d. (RD)

Advocated is an experiment for testing a new initial alphabet which maximizes the pattern differences between characters without the use of new symbols. (KW)

A description and analysis of one of the world's first illustrated textbooks for teaching young children. (RA)

An assessment is made of the initial teaching alphabet method of teaching reading 10 years after its introduction. (DB)