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Reading Teacher, 1980
Includes short reports from four elementary school teachers about vocabulary development, stimulation of student writing, and the effects of parents' reading to their first-grade children. (RL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Parent Child Relationship, Reading Instruction, Reading Research
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Balajthy, Ernest – Reading Teacher, 1987
Notes two trends in the development of basal-related software and describes the Scott, Foresman Reading Courseware and the Ginn Reading Software. (JC)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Reading Comprehension
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Maclean, Rod – Reading Teacher, 1988
Claims that even though teaching phonics is an effective method of reading instruction, the skills taught by phonics have little to do with the process of reading acquisition. Offers two methods of resolving the paradoxes generated by this situation. (NH)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
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Fredericks, Anthony D. – Reading Teacher, 1986
Argues that teaching students to use pictures in their minds improves their thinking skills. Offers a four step procedure for helping students formulate their own techniques for creating mind pictures. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Metacognition
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Jiganti, Mary Ann; Tindall, Mary Anne – Reading Teacher, 1986
Compares the effectiveness of two types of classroom vocabulary instruction with a noninstruction type homework assignment. (FL)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Learning Activities
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Rugel, Robert P. – Reading Teacher, 1971
Descriptors: Anxiety, Difficulty Level, Elementary School Students, Performance Factors
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Walker, Jerry L. – Reading Teacher, 1971
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Evaluation Methods, National Surveys, Punctuation
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Wolpert, Edward M. – Reading Teacher, 1971
Points out that oral reading involves visual, auditory, and kinesthetic perception and that it is impossible to divide reading methods into auditory and visual categories. Discusses the need to discover whether a child's perceptual abilities are directly related to his learning propensities and lists several other areas of needed research.…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Kinesthetic Perception
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Wixson, Karen K. – Reading Teacher, 1984
Concludes that there are numerous problems with the test studied. Argues that the abilities it assesses and their relationship to reading and reading instruction are not sufficiently understood to warrant the test's use. (FL)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Elementary Education, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Instruction
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Frazier, Robert I.; Zaslav, Susan S. – Reading Teacher, 1970
Compares the Edison Responsive Environment (ERE) type of programmed instruction and a non-automated, multimedia instructional system. (RW)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Computer Assisted Instruction, Intellectual Development, Multimedia Instruction
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Thorn, Elizabeth A. – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition, Language Experience Approach
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Lopez, Sarah Hudelson – Reading Teacher, 1977
This study confirmed that young Spanish-speaking readers use contextual clues when they read in Spanish. (HOD)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Error Patterns, Grade 2, Grade 3
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Duffelmeyer, Fredrick A.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1989
Examines the utility of informal reading inventories (IRI) and acknowledges four limitations of the research. Indicates that no validity-enhancing measures were implemented in conjunction with the three IRIs analyzed. Suggests that IRI vocabulary questions do not appear to be useful. (MG)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Elementary Education, Informal Assessment
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Blachowicz, Camille L. Z. – Reading Teacher, 1987
Reports on a study of six fourth grade reading groups that were observed to see if vocabulary instruction was a priority, what kinds of vocabulary instruction occurred, and what shaped teaching decisions. (JC)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Elementary Education, Grade 4, Instructional Design
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Wong-Kam, Jo Ann; Au, Kathryn H. – Reading Teacher, 1988
Presents three principles for working with poor readers in the upper elementary grades: (1) bring the class together as a literate community; (2) integrate reading and writing instruction; and (3) provide instruction on specific skills. Describes how one teacher, through application of these principles, helped a student overcome his reading…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Peer Influence, Reading Difficulties
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