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| Guthrie, Frances M. | 1 |
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Peer reviewedCunningham, Patricia M. – Reading Teacher, 1979
Suggests teaching a compare/contrast method of word identification rather than teaching syllabication rules to decode words and describes research investigating this technique. (MKM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Reading Processes
Peer reviewedGuthrie, Frances M.; Cunningham, Patricia M. – Reading Teacher, 1982
Reports that teaching educable mentally handicapped children to compare unknown words to words they already have in their sight vocabularies seems to improve their reading abilities. (FL)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Mild Mental Retardation, Reading Difficulties
Peer reviewedCunningham, Patricia M. – Reading Teacher, 1988
Offers suggestions for helping the older child who has not learned to read, including developing a sight word bank using a memorized book, using these sight words as the basis for decoding instruction, and including the nonreader in a reading group. (ARH)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Reading Failure, Reading Instruction
