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Download full textBalajthy, Ernest P., Jr. – 1978
Sixty tenth graders participated in this study of relationships between eye/voice span, phrase and clause boundaries, reading ability, and sentence structure. Results indicated that sentences apparently are "chunked" into surface constituents during processing. Better tenth grade readers had longer eye/voice spans than did poorer readers and…
Descriptors: Eye Voice Span, Grade 10, Masters Theses, Reading Ability
Kuntz, Mildred H. – 1975
This study was designed to investigate the relationship between reading achievement and syntactic attainment. Two measures were used to provide the data: the Gates MacGinitie Reading Test, Survey E, and the Sentence Construction Test, Level E. The measures of reading and syntax were administered to 96 seventh-grade students in two suburban junior…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Junior High Schools, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction
Takahashi, Barbara L. – 1975
The purpose of this study was to compare the performance of ninth-grade slow readers with ninth-grade good readers and with sixth grade readers on a test of syntactic comprehension. The significant difference between the ninth-grade good readers' and the ninth-grade slow readers' performance on A Test of Sentence Meaning (ATSM), developed by…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Reading, Reading Comprehension
