Since 2018, there has been an increase in the use of the term "Science of Reading" (SoR), which is a method of teaching reading that is connected to an understanding of reading and reading development that aligns with scientific research (Shanahan, 2020). Teachers who are new to the classroom may be unfamiliar with SoR and teaching…

AN EXPERIMENTAL GROUP OF 461 CHILDREN WAS TAUGHT TO READ WITH THE INITIAL TEACHING ALPHABET (I/T/A) BEGINNING IN KINDERGARTEN AND WAS READING TRADITIONAL ORTHOGRAPHY (T/O) MATERIALS BY THE END OF THE SECOND GRADE. THE CONTROL GROUP INCLUDED 462 CHILDREN WHO WERE TAUGHT TRADITIONAL ORTHOGRAPHY IN A PROGRAM CENTERED AROUND CONVENTIONAL BASAL READING…

EVIDENCE SUGGESTS READING ABILITY IS RELATED TO OTHER COMMUNICATION SKILLS SUCH AS LISTENING AND SPEAKING. DISTRUPTION IN THE PROCESS OF RECEIVING, ANALYZING, AND UTILIZING AUDITORY STIMULI MAY HAVE DELETERIOUS EFFECTS UPON A CHILD'S DEVELOPMENT OF READING SKILLS, ESPECIALLY IF THIS DISRUPTION OCCURS IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN. THOSE GROWING UP IN…

VERBAL REACTION TIMES TO WORD FORMS THAT DIFFER IN THEIR PRONOUNCEABILITY WERE ASSESSED FOR SIGNFICANCE OF CORRELATION. SINGLE PSEUDOWORDS OF VARYING PRONOUNCEABILITY WERE SHOWN TO 36 THIRD AND FOURTH GRADERS, AND THEIR REACTION TIMES FOR ORAL RESPONSES WERE MEASURED. THE RESPONSES WERE TAPE RECORDED, AND THE PERIOD OF TIME FROM THE EXPOSURE OF…

Reports findings for the relationship of the amount of instructional time in reading received by elementary school students in four New York state school districts to their gains in scores on the California Achievement Test and the "Criterion Referenced Test" prepared by the New York State Department of Education. (AA)

"Waterford Early Reading Level One"[TM] is an emergent literacy curriculum that uses computer-based technology to prepare children for reading. It begins with a tutorial to familiarize the child with the computer and mouse and a reading placement evaluation to assess and determine whether a child should work on "Level One"…

A THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF THE READING PROCESS, BOTH PSYCHOLOGICAL AND LINGUISTIC, AND THE STUDIES DEVELOPING FROM THE ANALYSIS FORMED THE BASIS FOR THIS RESEARCH PROGRAM ON READING. A RESEARCH GROUP WAS ORGANIZED AS A LOOSE FEDERATION WITH EACH OF THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS PURSUING HIS OWN IDEAS AND TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEM. THE COMPLETED…

NEW MATERIALS, METHODS, AND RESEARCHERS WERE ASSEMBLED TO PROVIDE A RESEARCH-BASED MODEL FOR A NEW CURRICULUM IN THE TEACHING OF READING. PROCEDURAL METHODS, THE INTERRELATED FUNCTIONS, AND BASES OF READING-LEARNING WERE DISCUSSED IN A SERIES OF FOUR RESEARCH PLANNING CONFERENCES. ANALYSES AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF ALL THE STUDIES INITIATED HAVE NOT…

THIS INVESTIGATION STUDIED THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN READING ACHIEVEMENT AND MORAL REALISM IN 7- TO 12-YEAR-OLD BOYS. INTRAGROUP TRENDS AND INTERGROUP DIFFERENCES IN MORAL REALISM AMONG RETARDED AND SUCCESSFUL READERS WERE COMPARED AND EVALUATED. A HORIZONTAL ANALYSIS AND A VERTICAL ANALYSIS WERE PERFORMED IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THE PRESENCE OF A…

THIS STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO TEST THE VALIDITY OF RESPONSE LATENCY AS A BEHAVIORAL INDEX TO READING. CHILDREN IN GRADES 2, 3, AND 4 WERE SHOWN A RANDOMIZED LIST OF 16 WORDS CONSISTING OF EIGHT REAL WORDS AND EIGHT PSEUDOWORDS. THE TIME THEY TOOK TO GIVE A VERBAL RESPONSE TO THE WORD AFTER ITS EXPOSURE WAS MEASURED. THE RESULTS SHOWED THAT CHILDREN…

Two studies addressed the effects of failure in reading test performance. In experiment 1, 36 students in 3 intact reading and study skills courses at an upstate New York community college completed a questionnaire, were administered an "unsolvable" reading test, were either given no feedback or "failure feedback," an…

THE EFFECTS WHICH CERTAIN CORRESPONDENCES BETWEEN SPELLING AND SOUND HAVE ON READING WERE ASSESSED. THE 54 SUBJECTS WERE DRAWN IN EQUAL NUMBERS FROM GRADES 2, 3, AND 4. TO COMPARE THE RESPONSE LATENCIES AND THE ERRORS MADE WHEN READING THREE INTERMIXED LISTS OF 12 WORDS EACH, THE CHILDREN WERE ASKED TO READ ALOUD EACH WORD AS IT WAS PRESENTED ON…

A study investigated the use of graphic organizers in classrooms--specifically examined was the use of graphic organizers as visual and organizational tools to facilitate student comprehension of expository text. Subjects consisted of 107 kindergarten through eighth-grade teachers (both regular and special educators) teaching in rural and urban…

"Phonological Awareness Training plus Letter Knowledge Training" is a general practice aimed at enhancing young children's phonological awareness, print awareness, and early reading abilities. Phonological awareness, the ability to detect or manipulate the sounds in words independent of meaning, is a precursor to reading. Phonological…