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Egeland, Byron; Winer, Ken – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1974
Shows that an errorless discrimination training (EDT) group made significantly fewer errors during instruction in learning the letters of the alphabet than did a reinforcement-extinction group. (RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Letters (Alphabet), Reading Instruction, Reading Research

Nelson, Rosemery O. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1974
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Kindergarten Children, Reading Achievement, Reading Research

Martin, James G.; Meltzer, Richard H. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1976
Proposes a method for presenting language materials visually as a way of facilitating the teaching of reading and presents preliminary data suggesting that the method is a plausible one. (Author/RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Materials, Language, Reading Instruction

Dollinger, Roberta A.; Walker, David N. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1978
This study explores the effectiveness of different methods of presenting words to children of both lower and upper-middle socioeconomic backgrounds. (HOD)
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Primary Education, Reading Research, Socioeconomic Influences

Rystrom, Richard – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1970
Refutes the questions raised by Tuinman and Blanton in this issue concerning his reading comprehension model and its validation. Restates his purpose for examining this area of reading. Tables and bibliography. (RW)
Descriptors: Definitions, Factor Analysis, Models, Reading Comprehension

Gipe, Joan P.; Arnold, Richard D. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1979
Describes a study in which investigators attempted to provide an example for approaching vocabulary development from a theoretical basis and tried to provide empirical support for some techniques presently used in teaching word meanings. (Author/HOD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Teaching Methods

Jones, Margaret B. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1976
Investigation of the effect of establishing purposes for reading upon reading comprehension showed that neither specific nor general reading directions appeared to affect performance and that purpose-setting directions served to discriminate between intentional and incidental information only for above-grade-level readers.
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension

Vandever, Thomas R.; Neville, Donald D. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1974
The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of matching modality aptitudes to classroom-based reading instruction. (RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 2, Learning Modalities, Reading Instruction
The Effect of Three-Dimensional Stimuli Versus Two-Dimensional Stimuli on Visual Form Discrimination

Towner, John C.; Evans, Howard M. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1974
Confirmed the hypothesis that those in the three-dimensional instructional group would make fewer confusion errors that those in the two-dimensional instructional group on a transfer task in reading. (RB)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Reading Skills

Fisher, Dennis F.; Frankfurter, Anthony – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1977
Discusses research which compared the performance of children with reading disabilities to the performance of normal readers, matched for age and reading level, in a backward-masking letter-identification and localization task. (JM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Reading Difficulty, Reading Research

Watts, Susan M. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1995
Finds that teachers used more than one activity to teach new words but typically did not use activities identified in the research literature as effective; teachers' stated purposes for vocabulary instruction were congruent with the requirements of the basal reading series used; and teachers defined the importance of vocabulary knowledge in terms…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Intermediate Grades, Reading Research, Teacher Attitudes

Crist, Robert L.; Petrone, Joseph M. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1977
Studied the effects of two methods of instruction in teaching the conceptual meaning of 15 unfamiliar words. (HOD)
Descriptors: College Students, Context Clues, Higher Education, Reading Research

Knafle, June D. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1976
Indicates that the teaching of rhyming words is the most efficient initial presentation of consonant-vowel-consonant words for beginning readers. (RB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Contrast, Language Acquisition

Carver, Ronald P. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1975
Descriptors: Attention Span, Higher Education, Programed Instruction, Reading Comprehension

Edwards, Peter – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1974
Presents the results of a study designed to determine whether idioms cause difficulty for students in the reading and understanding of prose, concluding that methods of teaching idioms should be explored. (RB)
Descriptors: Idioms, Language Skills, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research