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Wepman, Joseph M. – 1971
In 1964, the author proposed a multisensory approach to reading, and reading was seen as a language skill related to the development of verbal symbolic behavior. A closer focus was permitted on the child's learning process, which consists of preverbal learning (perceptually automatized and subconsciously acquired) and conceptual learning (which is…
Descriptors: Child Language, Concept Formation, Conference Reports, History
Stauffer, Russell G. – 1971
By relating research on cognition, child development, and teaching, the author describes the theoretical background of the language experience approach to teaching reading. The close relationship between spoken language and reading and writing skills is discussed. The author lists and describes specific practices for teaching and learning in a…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Language Arts
Goodman, Kenneth S., Ed.; Fleming, James T., Ed. – 1969
Selected by the International Reading Association's Committee on Psycholinguistics and Reading, the papers in this volume were first presented at the 1968 IRA Preconvention Institute: (1) "Reading Is Only Incidentally Visual" (Kolers) suggests that the teaching of reading should move away from the purely visual; (2) "Some Thoughts on Spelling"…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cultural Differences, Decoding (Reading), Language Acquisition
Lucas, Jana M. – 1973
Words were used as the stimulus factors to test the two-stage reading process. The first stage is a decoding stage in which the words are perceived and translated into an acoustic code, and the second stage is a semantic matching stage in which words were categorized into three phonological factors (word length, vowel complexity, and regularity)…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Consonants, Decoding (Reading), Grade 1
Miller, Wilma H. – 1971
This book was written primarily for the inservice elementary classroom teacher to assist in correcting the reading difficulties of the moderately disabled readers in the classroom. Five major divisions make up the book: (1) the various aspects of the reading process are discussed in the first section; (2) the second division describes many of the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Development, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Instruction
Harris, Larry A.; Smith, Carl B. – 1972
The articles contained in this volume were selected to support and strengthen the concept of individualized instruction through diagnostic teaching. The book is divided into six major parts, each of which is preceded by a brief overview that emphasizes the main tenets advanced by the authors of the individual articles. The six major divisions of…
Descriptors: Developmental Reading, Individualized Reading, Reading, Reading Ability
Haskins Labs., New Haven, CT. – 1972
This report on speech research contains 21 papers describing research conducted on a variety of topics concerning speech perception, processing, and production. The initial two reports deal with brain function in speech; several others concern ear function, both in terms of perception and information processing. A number of reports describe…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Computational Linguistics, Consonants, Electronic Equipment
Davis, Frederick B. – 1972
This review of psychometric research in reading analyzes the factors which seem related to reading comprehension skills. Experimental analysis of reading comprehension by L. E. Thorndike revealed two major components: knowledge of word meanings and verbal reasoning abilities. Subsequent analysis of experimental studies of reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Tests, Literature Reviews
MCCANNE, ROY – 1966
COMPARISONS WERE MADE AMONG THREE APPROACHES TO DEVELOPING ENGLISH ARTS SKILLS, PARTICULARLY IN READING, WITH FIRST-GRADE CHILDREN FROM SPANISH-SPEAKING HOMES. PARTICIPATING CHILDREN WERE RANDOMLY GIVEN ONE OF THREE INSTRUCTIONAL TREATMENTS FOR ENGLISH-READING--(1) BASAL READING, (2) SECOND LANGUAGE READING, AND (3) LANGUAGE-EXPERIENCE READING. IT…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Bilingual Students, Comparative Analysis
Brown, Ann L.; And Others – 1977
Two experiments concerned with memory and comprehension of prose passages were conducted with children from second through seventh grade. In both experiments the major variable was the provision of appropriate frameworks for comprehending ambiguous sections of the passages. In the initial experiment, recognition of theme-congruent and…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Child Development, Comprehension, Context Clues
Lipset, Corine B. – 1976
Thirty fifth-grade children participated in a study of regressions in oral reading of narrative and expository material. A cloze test, a retelling task, and a comprehending task were administered to each student. Analysis of regressions in reading indicated nine categories of cause of regression: correction, anticipatory problems, intonation…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Expository Writing, Grade 5
Hutcheson, Pat Penn – 1972
The nature of nonstandard dialects and the ways they may contribute to reading failure in the children who speak them are the focal points around which the books and articles in this annotated bibliography were compiled. Part one, "The Linguistically Different Learner," contains abstracts of items which deal primarily with language…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition
Mitchell, Carol – 1976
Oral reading errors of 10 learning disabled children (9-11 years old) were examined in order to describe the type of errors, the use of graphic, syntactic, and semantic information, and the implementation of correction strategies. Tape recordings were made of individual oral reading sessions, and errors were classified according to substitution,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities
Russell, Sheldon Noel – 1973
Oral reading errors of functionally illiterate adults were compared with those of younger readers at the same achievement level. The sample consisted of 34 second- and third-grade pupils and 31 functionally illiterate adults; all subjects were reading between grade levels 2.5 and 4.0 for both word recognition and comprehension, as measured by the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Doctoral Dissertations, Miscue Analysis, Oral Reading
Guthrie, John T., Ed. – 1976
Papers collected in this volume were presented at the Fifth Annual Blumberg Symposium on Research in Early Childhood Education, held at Johns Hopkins University in 1974. Selections include "Alexia" (D. Frank Benson), "Young Children's Expectations for Reading" (Doris R. Entwisle), "Relations between Acquisition of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Conference Reports, Elementary Secondary Education, Expectation
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