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Peer reviewedNewby, Robert F.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1989
The study provided 7 dysphonetic and dyseidetic dyslexic children (aged 8 to 10) with instruction in reading comprehension using a story grammar strategy and instructional approaches matching each dyslexia subtype. Statistically and clinically significant improvements were found in the proportion of qualitatively important story elements recalled…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Modalities
La Sorte, Diane M. – 1980
A study was conducted to investigate the ability of children to determine meanings of derived words that have undergone a pronunciation shift while retaining a close orthographic relationship to their base words. A researcher-designed test was constructed using derived words that had their base word included in a "core list" of words at or below…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Language Patterns, Learning Modalities
Peer reviewedMarlowe, Wendy; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1979
In a study 12 normal children and 12 reading disabled (word recognition difficulties) children (mean age 9.2 years) were compared for reading and listening comprehension to test whether disabled readers, given an auditory presentation, would show comprehension of material comparable to that of normal readers given visual presentation. (PHR)
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities
Download full textPitts, Murray C.; Thompson, Bruce – 1982
A study of 103 second, third, and fourth grade students investigated relationships among cognitive styles and reading comprehension. Each subject was individually tested using four different instruments to assess four cognitive styles: (1) field-independence/dependence (ability to locate a simple figure--concept--hidden in a complex field), (2)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Conceptual Tempo, Elementary Education, Learning Modalities
Bryant, Lynda Carol – 1976
To observe the relationship of auditory and visual receptive skills to achievement in reading, 80 eight-year-old children were given a diagnostic test battery which examined three receptive skills--attention to stimuli, discrimination, and memory--within three sensory modalities--auditory, visual, and auditory-visual. The control group consisted…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Auditory Perception, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education
Groff, Patrick – 1985
Intended to help dispel several unsupported "myths" about reading instruction, this book analyzes a selected group of teaching practices that have been supported by reading experts but not by research findings. The "myths" discussed in the first 12 chapters of the book are as follows: (1) phonics hinders comprehension; (2) unpredictable spelling…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Dictionaries, Educational Theories, Elementary Education
