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Peer reviewedDowning, John – Language Arts, 1976
Describes the difficulties children face in learning the special language used to talk about reading and its relation to speech. (DD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach, Reading Development, Reading Processes
Peer reviewedGlass, Arnold L.; Perna, Joan – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1986
Fourth graders who were good readers (N=95) and poor readers (N=27) were given tests of syntactic competence, vocabulary, and auditory and reading comprehension. Scores on the auditory and reading comprehension tests were significantly correlated. Poor readers performed significantly poorer on the syntactic test, but results did not support the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Reading Processes
Peer reviewedBowers, Patricia G. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1995
Examines (longitudinally) contributions of naming speed measured on serial-list and various discrete-trial formats to several reading subskills to determine their impact independent of other reading-related skills on reading disabilities. Tests 38 poor and average readers in grades 2, 3, and 4. Finds that phonological awareness, vocabulary, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Longitudinal Studies, Reading Difficulties, Reading Processes
Caldwell, JoAnne – Journal of the Wisconsin State Reading Association, 1991
Suggests changes in the Guided Reading format based on recent research on the nature of reading and reading instruction. Emphasizes the dynamic process of constructing meaning from text. (MG)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Processes, Reading Research
Cheek, Earl Herman, Jr. – 1972
The problems stated for this investigation were: (1) to determine the order of introduction of the common phoneme-grapheme correspondences needed for use in decoding of written words introduced in the elementary grades, and (2) to ascertain at what specific readability level a particular graphemic option occurred most frequently. A master word…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Readability, Reading
Peer reviewedGipe, Joan – Reading Research Quarterly, 1978
Describes a study which examined the effectiveness of four methods for teaching word meanings. The context method was found to be more effective than the use of category labels and dictionary practice. Associating new words with familiar synonyms was also supported. (MKM)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Elementary Education, Reading Processes, Reading Research
Miller, Wilma H. – 1971
This book was written primarily for the inservice elementary classroom teacher to assist in correcting the reading difficulties of the moderately disabled readers in the classroom. Five major divisions make up the book: (1) the various aspects of the reading process are discussed in the first section; (2) the second division describes many of the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Development, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedReutzel, D. Ray; Hollingsworth, Paul M. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1988
Investigates the effect of vocabulary-based and generative-reciprocal inference procedure (GRIP) training on third grade readers' comprehension. Reports that the GRIP group outperformed control and basal inference groups on various inferential transfer tasks, indicating that strategies which help students attend to text clues aid in making…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Comparative Analysis, Context Clues, Critical Reading
