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Moving Into Literacy: Then And Now, Maryanne Hall
Moving Into Literacy: Then And Now, Maryanne Hall
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
How children learn to read has intrigued parents, teachers, and psychologists as well as reading authorities and researchers for many years. The question of when children should learn to read has been debated extensively since the 1930s. The attention to this question may have resulted in a lack of acknowledgement that learning to be literate begins long before the formal introduction to reading in a school setting. In this article prereading and beginning reading are examined from both a historical and a current perspective with emphasis on implications of recent findings on children's literacy learning for instruction.
Using Student Predictions To Teach Content Area Vocabulary, Charles E. Martin, John Mateja
Using Student Predictions To Teach Content Area Vocabulary, Charles E. Martin, John Mateja
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
The following strategies encourage the predictive behaviors of students attempting to acquire new vocabulary. The strategies involve the kinds of thinking associated with anticipating meaning, using context, and relating text to a purpose. They stimulate learners to make connections between old and new information.
Developing An Understanding Of Literacy Through Production Of Pop-Up Books, Patrick Shannon, Barbara G. Samuels
Developing An Understanding Of Literacy Through Production Of Pop-Up Books, Patrick Shannon, Barbara G. Samuels
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
This article presents a series of activities with pop-up and other movable books which allow children to produce meaning and should further their understanding of literacy.
Illustrative Aids Improve Reading, Thomas E. Skruggs, Margo A. Mastropieri
Illustrative Aids Improve Reading, Thomas E. Skruggs, Margo A. Mastropieri
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
We present typical examples of what students (or teachers) might do to enhance comprehension while reading.
Let's Discuss Chicano Adolescent Literature, Juan M. Flores
Let's Discuss Chicano Adolescent Literature, Juan M. Flores
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Ethnic literature has had an increasingly important role in our public schools as the number of minority children enrolled has grown dramatically. Teachers are realizing the importance of helping children to appreciate the richness of cultural difference and to develop some feelings of empathy for all people (Washburn, 1978, p 3).
Alternative Uses Of Networking, Kay Camperell, Lawrence L. Smith
Alternative Uses Of Networking, Kay Camperell, Lawrence L. Smith
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
In secondary schools, many remedial reading teachers are beginning to work with texts students use in their content area classes. Reading teachers are doing this because they feel that students do not transfer skills they learn in reading classes to help themselves understand and study content area texts. Many reading teachers, however, are not always familiar with information in content area texts, especially if they use books from vocational technical areas. On eway reading teachers can begin to familiarize themselves with these texts its to create netwrok diagrams or maps of the information (Dansereau, 1978; Anderson & Armbruster, 1980). We …
Reading About 'Reading', Nigel Hall
Reading About 'Reading', Nigel Hall
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
The centrality of an abundance of books to the task of learning to read is undisputed. No-one writes a book about reading without stressing the importance of experiences with books.
Listening To Students About Reading, Beverly B. Swanson
Listening To Students About Reading, Beverly B. Swanson
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
The intent of this exploratory study is to examine perceptions of reading in terms of both developmental characteristics and implications for reading instruction.
A Program To Help Prepare Pre-Schoolers For Reading, Rona F. Flippo, Helen Branch
A Program To Help Prepare Pre-Schoolers For Reading, Rona F. Flippo, Helen Branch
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Parents of young children are very often concerned with their child's pre-reading and beginning reading development. They want to know what they can do to help their child have a good start in this critically important skill. All too frequently parents do not have the information available to them to help their children. this article describes a local project designed to provide parents with ideas and information that should contribute to their children's maximum opportunity for success when formal school instruction begins. Although each parent-child relationship should be treated individually, there are some pre-reading experiences whicch are applicable to most …
Reading Horizons Vol. 25, No. 2
Reading Horizons Vol. 25, No. 2
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 25, issue 2.
Instructional Cloze: Confronting Some Common Concerns, Nancy Lee Cecil
Instructional Cloze: Confronting Some Common Concerns, Nancy Lee Cecil
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
In the last ten years, the cloze procedure has increased in popularity as a respected and useful teaching tool. Current research indicates that this growing acclaim is warranted.
Questions To Assist In Designing Supplementary Materials, Joanne L. Vacca
Questions To Assist In Designing Supplementary Materials, Joanne L. Vacca
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Have you ever walked into an elementary classroom and thought you were in the Christmas display window of F.A.O. Schwartz toy store? The teacher is, putting it mildly, creative and talented at making materials. Many of us are not this gifted, yet want to generate supplementary materials of the teacher-made variety for our own students. This is a good reason for becoming involved in designing and producing materials. A secon and even more practical reason is to help solve a real problem: the classroom is deficient in materials and there is little or no financial support available. What would you …
Changing Perspectives On Context, Argiro L. Morgan
Changing Perspectives On Context, Argiro L. Morgan
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
The purpose of this article is to show how older, largely context-free models of reading and its instruction became changed into a multidimensional, context-dependent orientation toward written language and the reading process. This change was influenced by an identical trend in linguistics, which also shifted from an over-reliance upon isolated pieces of language to a stufy of naturalistic, connective texts (Kintsch, 1974). The article concludes with suggestions for using a variety of contextual strategies to increase reading comprehension.
Models Of The Reading Process Held By Abe And Ged Instructors, Valerie Meyer, Donald Keefe
Models Of The Reading Process Held By Abe And Ged Instructors, Valerie Meyer, Donald Keefe
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
This research study explores the theoretical construct of reading held by instructors of adult disabled readers.
Informal Children's Literature Inventory: Test Yourself, Karla Hawkins Wendelin
Informal Children's Literature Inventory: Test Yourself, Karla Hawkins Wendelin
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Educators are frequently advised to familiarize themselves with children's literature. Knowledge of books at a wide range of interest and ability levels will assist teachers in providing books for recreational reading in the classroom, recommending books to students, setting up individualized reading programs, and reading aloud to students. based on Huck's (1966) Inventory of Children's Literary Background, which evaluated children's knowledge of well-liked literature, the following instrument was developed for teachers to assess their knowledge of children's books.
A Functional Approach To In-Service For Secondary Content-Area Teachers, W. John Harker
A Functional Approach To In-Service For Secondary Content-Area Teachers, W. John Harker
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
This report describes the development and implementation of an in-service program in reading instruction for practising secondary teachers.
The Verbal Language Of Public Television, Kathleen C. Stevens
The Verbal Language Of Public Television, Kathleen C. Stevens
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Television is a phenomenon that touches the life of almost every American child. Indeed, the average eighteen year old in the United States has watched 18,000 hours of television (Liberman, 1983). The effects of such a concentrated block of time on the child's development have to be considerable. These effects influence many areas of the child's life-psychological, sociological, perhaps even physiological. It is the area of television's language modeling that is of interest in this article.
Comparing Achievement, Ability, With Visual Memory And Visual Association, James Battle, George Labercane
Comparing Achievement, Ability, With Visual Memory And Visual Association, James Battle, George Labercane
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of achievement in reading, spelling and arithmetic with a variety of other measures, particularly tests of visual memory and visual-motor association. Eighty-seven boys and girls two through six in a large urban school system participated in the study. All subjects were individually administered the following tests: Schonell's Graded Word Reading and Word Spelling Test, Form A; the Monroe-Sherman Arithmetic Computation Test, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised; the Basic Visual-Motor Association Test; and the visual-memory subtest of Visual perception Skills.