A Three-Year Experimental Study of Two Methods of Teaching Reading in the Elementary School

The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of a phonetic reading approach, namely that published by the Economy Company, with a traditional basal reading approach upon reading achievement in the primary grades of the Peter G. Schmidt Elementary School, in Tumwater, Washington. A secondary purpose of the study was to compare the effects of the two approaches on spelling achievement in the second and third grades in the Peter G. ·Schmidt Elementary School.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Education (MEd)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Year

1968

Author dc:creator

• Davis, Merle Eugene

Contributors dc:contributor

• John E. Davis
• Alan R. Bergstrom
• Darwin J. Goodey

• Education
• Reading (Elementary)
• Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
• Educational Methods
• Elementary Education and Teaching

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/831

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.cwu.edu:etd-1858