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Perry, Patricia Bryan – 1975
The purpose of this study was to identify, from the literature, those factors--prescribed to be important in determining readiness to begin a formal reading program--which were perceived to be affected by working with the child in a teaching situation. A questionnaire listing the factors was submitted to the 162 participants who were asked to rank…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs, Reading Readiness
Hoffman, Sybil M. – 1978
A study was conducted to determine the effect of a program of listening skills on the reading comprehension of fourth grade students. After a pretest, an experimental group of 12 boys and 12 girls was selected randomly from four classrooms and a control group was selected with matched pretest scores. The experimental group was taught using…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Listening Comprehension, Listening Skills
Ross, Melvie Lynn – 1974
The status of reading readiness practices in kindergarten and first grade was investigated in this study. A questionnaire based on reading readiness research was mailed to kindergarten and first grade teachers in randomly selected school buildings. Frequency of reading readiness practices utilized were tabulated and percentages determined. A…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 1, Kindergarten, Primary Education
Lackner, Gale Peaceman – 1979
A study was conducted to determine whether primary school children who were taught reading with an experimental modality prescriptive-diagnostic reading program achieved higher reading comprehension scores in the intermediate grades than did children who were taught reading with a traditional reading approach. The experimental group was composed…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Education, Masters Theses, Reading Achievement
Joy, Charles Paul, Sr. – 1975
The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of an automated programed instructional unit under varying conditions. Students' sex and socioeconomic status as an influence on achievement when interacting with the intervention was investigated along with other facts. The selected literature included a review of representative samples…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Predictor Variables, Primary Education, Program Effectiveness
McHargue, Robert Michael – 1975
This study was designed to develop and evaluate new methods of helping college students increase their academic reading efficiency. Three new one-unit courses--identical in reading content, tasks, and skills development, but differing in format, amount of structure, and delivery mode--were developed. The teaching methods in these courses were…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations, Higher Education
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Allain, Althea Saizan – 1977
Five hundred second-grade pupils participated in a study of the effect of the Allain Color Pack reading system on reading achievement. Subjects were divided into equal treatment and control groups; each group was stratified according to low, average, and high reading ability determined on the basis of pretests of vocabulary and comprehension. The…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 2, Primary Education, Reading Achievement
Howard, Virginia Pearl Hymes – 1975
The purpose of this study was to examine the organization, program format and duration of college reading improvement instructional programs (CRIPs) in selected four-year American colleges and universities from 1950-1974, and to gather information which is vital to effective curricula and planning for higher education in the area of reading…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Higher Education, Program Evaluation, Reading Improvement
Gillespie, Barbara – 1975
The emphases of the reading center proposed in this study are on the assessment of reading strengths, the isolation of reading deficiencies, and--in an instructor-learner environment--diagnosis and the prescription of action which will enable students to master the reading skills necessary for independent reading in their high school careers. This…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Masters Theses, Program Descriptions, Reading Centers
Weber, Elaine Marie – 1975
This study examined the effects of two programs which differed in the methods they employed to develop reading readiness. The two methods represented were a language experience approach and a phonics approach. The subjects were children from kindergarten classes in two elementary schools in Flint, Michigan. All subjects were randomly assigned…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Language Experience Approach, Phonics
Harwood, Thomas Joseph – 1975
The purpose of this study was to develop a reading program using dramatic literature, informal dramatization, and a series of related written exercises to increase reading comprehension skills. It was also the purpose of this study to determine if such a program would produce a more favorable attitude toward reading on the part of the students in…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Drama, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Gloger, Maxwell T. – 1975
This dissertation discusses specific aspects of reading programs in thirteen selected countries: England, The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Israel, Iran, India, Nepal, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. Chapters examine such topics as present educational policies, teacher training, native language, reading methods, research in…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
McKnab, Kay Wedel – 1975
This study investigated developmental trends of certain oral-reading skills for first-, second-, and third-grade children instructed under the Distar Reading Program and the Holt Basic Reading System. The oral-reading skills studied were the overall speed and the accuracy of reading words spelled regularly and irregularly. Ten subjects comprised…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Oral Reading
Sexton, Stephen – 1976
Twenty-six elementary school principals were selected from ten Wyoming school districts to participate in this study, which was designed to identify common procedures and policies concerning the identification of individual pupil's reading levels, the selection of specific reading materials, and the development of a reading program. Responses to a…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Evaluation, Doctoral Dissertations
Patberg, Judythe A. Pearson – 1974
In this paper, the development and the first three months of a reading program in which university students tutor junior high school students with reading skill deficiencies are described. In section 1, an introduction, the literacy problem that exists in the United States and the basic rationale for the tutoring approach as a solution to this…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Junior High School Students, Literacy, Program Descriptions
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