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| Reading Teacher | 42 |
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| Journal Articles | 32 |
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| Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
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What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewedBukovec, Joseph A. – Reading Teacher, 1973
Reviews the literature on phonic generalizations and presents a formula measuring the usefulness of word recognition, concluding that further research is needed. (RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Literature Reviews, Phonics, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedRosso, Barbara Rak; Emans, Robert – Reading Teacher, 1981
Finds evidence for a relationship between children's ability to use word recognition generalizations and their reading achievement, although they may not need to be able to verbalize those generalizations. (Author/FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Phonics, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedMcCoy, Kathleen M.; Pany, Darlene – Reading Teacher, 1986
Analyzes research reports that describe specific corrective feedback techniques. Notes effects for comprehension and for accuracy of word recognition among remedial and average readers and discusses instructional implications of the findings. (FL)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elementary Education, Feedback, Learning Strategies
Peer reviewedJoseph, Laurice M. – Reading Teacher, 1999
Describes Marie Clay's word boxes that help children attend to phonological and orthographic features of words, developing phonemic awareness and improving word recognition and spelling. Describes a study showing that the use of word boxes with several elementary school students with learning disabilities was effective for improving and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Peer reviewedWorthing, Bernadette; Laster, Barbara – Reading Teacher, 2002
Describes Strategy Access Rods (SARs), balsa-wood, prism-like or rectangular rods on which a one-sentence reading strategy phrase in the first person is printed. Notes SARs serve as a visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile reminder of the strategies available to developing readers. Discusses use of SARs for word recognition and comprehension.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Group Instruction, Instructional Innovation, Learning Strategies
Peer reviewedReading Teacher, 1980
Contains suggestions from six contributors, including the use of parents as an audience for beginning readers; outdoor activities to motivate readers; word order recognition exercise; a books-by-mail library service for rural students; using remedial students to read to younger children; and a language arts/social studies project. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Language Usage
Peer reviewedCohen, Alice Sheff; Schwartz, Elaine – Reading Teacher, 1975
Suggests that perceptual problems may account for the difficulty young children experience in recognizing words. (RB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Perceptual Development, Reading Difficulty
Peer reviewedMoon, Louise; Scorpio, Carolyn M. – Reading Teacher, 1984
Offers strategies to use when students are not able to achieve a high level of accuracy in story reading. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Strategies, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Difficulties
Peer reviewedFrenzel, 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
Peer reviewedFroese, Victor – Reading Teacher, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Testing, Elementary Education, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedSamuels, 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
Peer reviewedWolff, Diana E.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1985
Discusses the use of analogy strategies, which involve comparing word parts to other known words, to teach reading. Reports on a study that showed positive effects from teaching analogy strategies to second-grade students and to learning disabled fifth-grade students. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies, Reading Difficulties
Peer reviewedDeSerres, Barbara – Reading Teacher, 1990
Describes a method of increasing vocabulary recognition of Chapter 1 elementary students by using mastery words from basal programs, sight word cards, and modified cloze stories. (MG)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Vocabulary, Context Clues, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedHolmes, Betty C.; Roser, Nancy L. – Reading Teacher, 1987
Discusses five ways to determine the amount and quality of prior knowledge children bring to a topic: (1) free recall tasks, (2) word association tasks, (3) structured questions, (4) recognition tasks, and (5) unstructured discussion. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedOliver, Marvin E. – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Activities, Elementary Education, Enrichment, Imagination
