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Amber Lawson – Reading Teacher, 2024
When young children of Color from minoritized communities read decodable readers mandated by their school districts, children approach reading the texts with the expectation that the texts will make sense. While decodable readers allow children to apply their knowledge of phonics skills in context to support their word recognition, they tend to…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Reading Instruction, Decoding (Reading), Reading Comprehension
Hiebert, Elfrieda H. – Reading Teacher, 2022
According to interpretations of results from the latest oral reading fluency (ORF) study conducted by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (White et al., 2020), fourth-grade students who score below the basic standard require interventions that focus on word recognition, phonological decoding, and fluency. Before such mandates for…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Reading Tests, Oral Reading, Reading Fluency
Staudt, Deborah Hill – Reading Teacher, 2009
Two struggling fourth-grade readers with learning disabilities who have severe deficits in word recognition, comprehension, and reading fluency improve their reading skills using a method that combines intensive word study with the timed repeated reading of poetry. The direct instruction included semantics, morphology, orthography, and…
Descriptors: Spelling, Reading Fluency, Semantics, Learning Disabilities
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Montgomery, Diane – Reading Teacher, 1977
This study, using the Visual Pattern Recognition Test for Prereading Skills, found that beginning readers improve in word recognition if they are given training in identifying essential components of letters. (HOD)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Pattern Recognition, Perception, Preschool Education
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Duffelmeyer, Frederick A.; Black, Jeffrey L. – Reading Teacher, 1996
Reports on a study testing the validity of the Names Test, an individually administered phonics assessment. Provides support for the Names Test's validity by showing it to be significantly correlated with established tests of word recognition and decoding ability. (SR)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education, Phonics, Reading Research
Ehri, Linnea C. – Reading Teacher, 2022
A hallmark of skilled reading is recognizing written words automatically from memory by sight. How beginning readers attain this skill is explained. They must acquire foundational knowledge, including phonemic segmentation, grapheme-phoneme knowledge, decoding, and spelling skills. When these skills are applied, spellings of words become bonded to…
Descriptors: Phonics, Phonemic Awareness, Spelling, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
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Frenzel, Norman J. – Reading Teacher, 1978
Gives specific ideas for encouraging students to be flexible in their approach to decoding words. (MKM)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Phonics
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Wulz, S. Vanost; Hollis, John H. – Reading Teacher, 1979
Explains six tasks which require comprehension of words and which can be used to teach beginning readers. (MKM)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Comprehension, Decoding (Reading)
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Samuels, S. Jay – Reading Teacher, 1988
Suggests that automaticity in decoding, a prerequisite for skilled reading, results from direct instruction in decoding skills and extended practice in comfortable reading materials. (ARH)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Oral Reading, Reading Comprehension
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Groff, Patrick – Reading Teacher, 1974
Surveys how children develop their powers of word identification, and questions common assumptions about the utility of sight words. (TO)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Reading Instruction, Reading Research
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Cunningham, 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
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White, Thomas G.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1989
Examines some problems and techniques for teaching prefixes and suffixes at the middle elementary level. States that fewer affixes should be taught, while emphasizing the application of affix knowledge to unfamiliar words. Lists the most common prefixes and suffixes in printed school English for grades three to nine. (MM)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Intermediate Grades, Reading Instruction
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Guthrie, 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
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Richardson, Kim – Reading Teacher, 1987
Examines the Decoding Skills Test (DST), a criterion referenced, diagnostic instrument designed to identify deficiencies in word decoding. (JC)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Criterion Referenced Tests, Decoding (Reading), Diagnostic Tests
Voorhees, Susan – Reading Teacher, 2011
Homework is an instructional staple for most classroom teachers; however, considerable debate over the effectiveness of homework has been at the center of discussions among researchers, administrators, educators, parents, and students. Rather than continuing the battle as to whether or not homework enriches learning, it appears the more…
Descriptors: Homework, Reading Strategies, Reading Ability, Teaching Methods
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