The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of strategically teaching metacognitive skills to high-, medium-, and low-achieving fourth grade students, and how it influenced their ability to comprehend grade level texts. Nine children participated in the experimental group, and nine were selected for the control group. A pre/post miscue…

A study examined the hypothesis that illustrations found in first-grade basal texts do not always relate to context. Six texts were analyzed to determine the percentage of illustration miscues appearing in each story. The basal readers used were: "Story Clouds," Scott Foresman Reading: An American Tradition (1987); "Red Rock,"…

The progress and problems of five Spanish-speaking fourth graders who have learned to read only in English are traced. An attempt is made to ascertain the relationship between oral fluency in Spanish and English and reading ability in English, the effects of dialect-based miscues on reading comprehension, and the types of reading strategies these…

A psycholinguistic analysis of oral reading miscue substitutions and of silent reading cloze substitutions was used to compare five dimensions of the oral and silent reading processes: grammatical function, syntactic acceptability, semantic acceptability, meaning loss, and correction. Subjects were third and sixth grade students with high,…