- Guy Bond
Guy Bond was an educational psychologist who made significant contributions to research in reading and literacy.fact|date=April 2008 Bond's work with
Robert Dykstra on "The First Grade Studies" is perhaps the most famous of his contributions.cite book|last = International Reading Association
title = Preparing Reading Professionals: A Collection from the International Reading Association
publisher = International Reading Association
date = 2004
pages = pp. 58
isbn = 0872075648 ] His areas of study were reading, elementary education, and curriculum education psychology.Born on May 4, 1904 in Coupeville Washington, Bond was educated at Western Washington State College and the Universities of
Alabama and Columbia. Bond was a professor at State College, Fedonia,New York from 1936-37. He was a professor in the Faculty of Education at theUniversity of Minnesota from 1942 to 1971, where an endowed faculty chair was established in his name.Publications
* "Reading Difficulties: Their Diagnosis and Correction" (Bond & Tinker, 1951)
* "The Cooperative Resesarch Program in First-Grade Reading Instruction" (Bond & Dykstra, 1967)
* "Reading Difficulties: Their Diagnosis and Correction"(Bond, Tinker & Wasson, 1957)External links
* [http://ed-web3.educ.msu.edu/literacy/papers/first.htm The First Grade Studies]
* [http://education.umn.edu/Pubs/100/LitLegacy.html Literacy’s legacy] , "College of Education and Human Development Centennial Magazine", Winter 2006References
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