Early Trends and Basal Programs
Sight-Word, Phonetic and New Methods
The ITA and Linguistic Approach
Individualized Reading, Language Experience and Whole Language Approaches
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In this method, students would recite the names of the letters that they did not know.
What is Letter Naming?
100
The belief that students should learn a series of "Sight Words" before phonics instruction.
What is Sight Word Method?
100
What does ITA stand for?
What is the Initial Teaching Alphabet?
100
The Individualized Reading and Language Experience approaches operated a philosophy of reading instruction that looked to limit or eliminate much of the structure and routine created with which programs?
What is Basal Programs?
200
This program had a higher emphasis on reading textbooks and workbooks that taught and reviewed reading skills.
What is/are Basal Programs?
200
The belief that students should learn letter/sound relationships.
What is the Phonetic Method?
200
The title of Bloomfield and Barnhart's book on code-breaking.
What is "Let's Read"?
200
The reason the reliance on Basal reader materials were to be avoided.
What is considered too restrictive, dull and uninspiring?
300
This method used whole sentences or stories as a starting point for reading.
What is the Sentence and Story Recitation Method?
300
Published "Why Johnny Can't Read". He believes that more phonics instruction in school is the only way to improve reading skills.
Who is Rudolf Flesch?
300
The method used by the ITA.
What is Letter-Seen-Sound-Heard?
300
Approach that broke with traditional instruction and its emphasis on integrating writing and reading instruction. The foundation for the Whole Language movement/
What is the Individualized Reading Approach?
400
This approach advocated reducing reading to a number of mechanical procedures.
What is the Synthetic Method?
400
Programmed Reader, Words in Color, Initial Teaching Alphabet
What is other methods of phonics instruction?
400
Failed because there were no guidelines for irregular word instruction provided.
What is the Linguistic Approach?
400
Whole Language can fit comfortably at every level of the curriculum except for this period.
What is the Learning to Read period?