Basic studies on reading. / Edited by Harry Levin and Joanna P. Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levin, Harry, 1925-

Williams, Joanna P., author.

Contributor:

Project Literacy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reading.

Physical Description:

xii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, [1970]

Contents:

Phonology and reading, by N. Chomsky.

Linguistic forms and the process of reading, by D. W. Reed.

Regularity in reading and spelling, by R. L. Venezky.

Linguistics and reading: a commentary on chapters 1 to 3, by W. N. Francis.

Utilization of spelling patterns by deaf and hearing subjects, by E. J. Gibson, A. Shurcliff, and A. Yonas.

Components of literacy: speculations and exploratory research, by J. Hochberg.

Three stages of reading, by P. A. Kolers.

Grammatical structure and reading, by H. Levin and E. L. Kaplan.

Reading by eye, by T. G. R. Bower.

First-graders' use of grammatical context in reading, by R.-M. Weber.

Psychology and reading: commentary on chapters 5 to 10, by R. Brown.

A motivational content analysis of children's primers, by G. E. Blom, R. R. Waite, and S. G. Zimet.

The reading of the -ed suffix, by W. Labov.

Story retelling: a study of sequential speech in young children, by V. P. John, V. M. Horner, and T. D. Berney.

From basic research on reading to educational practice, by J. P. Williams.

Notes:

"Many ... of the studies were instigated ... by Project Literacy.".

Includes bibliographies.

ISBN:

0465005780

OCLC:

103359