Number 8 (1970)

Originally published as:   Notes on Literacy. Number 8 (1970). Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics. © 1970 Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc.

Complete Table of Contents

An experiment in testing the reading of Trique without indication of tone, by Robert E. Longacre

Tone diacritics in Loma, by Margaret D. Miller

The use of stories as motivation for reading ^*, by Riena W. Kondo and Margaret M. Wendell

1. The problem defined

2. Use of stories as a solution

2.1. Useful types of stories

2.2. Types of stories to avoid

3. Eliciting material from an informant

4. Elements that make a story interesting

4.1. Realistic pictures

4.2. Use of idiomatic expressions, completely familiar words

5. Dual purpose

6. Format

The preparation of transitional reading materials, by William Atherton

0. Introduction

1. The resource library

1.1. Its purpose

1.2. Its sources

2. The literacy laboratory

Back Matter

Appendix

The good fight

Here is some news for you

The scratching man

Let us just tell stories

Florentino and his golden cassava

Short notes: Notes on Guajajara, by Margaret Bendor-Samuel

Letter shapes

Rainbow syllables

Teaching dictation

Teaching multimorphemic words

Couplets in Manobo, by Jean Shand

Review: Teaching reading in the elementary school ^*, by Sarah C. Gudschinsky

Review: Current issues in reading, by Sarah C. Gudschinsky