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| Reading World | 202 |
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| Journal Articles | 117 |
| Reports - Research | 84 |
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| Opinion Papers | 11 |
| Guides - Classroom - Teacher | 5 |
| Reports - Evaluative | 4 |
| Guides - Non-Classroom | 2 |
| Reference Materials -… | 1 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
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| Practitioners | 6 |
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Peer reviewedJohns, Jerry L.; Wheat, Thomas E. – Reading World, 1978
Recounts a study that shows that political stories have a higher readability level than sports stories, the average wire-service story has a higher readability level than the average non-wire service story, and newspapers may be harder to read than is commonly assumed. (TJ)
Descriptors: Newspapers, Readability, Reading Materials, Reading Research
Peer reviewedGilstad, June R. – Reading World, 1981
Discusses how knowledge of past reading instruction can enable educators to have a better understanding of contemporary practices and the advantages to the researcher of dual training as historian and reading educator. Offers specific methodological criteria for engaging in or evaluating historical research in reading instruction. (Author/FL)
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Research Methodology
Peer reviewedBullock, Terry – Reading World, 1979
Suggests using yearbooks of the National Society for the Study of Education (NSSE) to get an historical perspective on the discipline. Includes a classification scheme of the yearbooks according to subjects and authors. (TJ)
Descriptors: Annual Reports, History, Reading Research, Reference Materials
Peer reviewedJohns, Jerry L.; Ellis, DiAnn Waskul – Reading World, 1976
Demonstrates that children in grades one through eight have greatly disparate views of the reading process. (Author/RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading, Reading Processes, Reading Research
Peer reviewedRisko, Victoria Joyce – Reading World, 1973
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Beginning Reading, Phonics, Reading Achievement
Peer reviewedBowman, Margie – Reading World, 1981
Examines the background of schema theory and discusses the contention that content schemata is more important to the reader than textual schemata. Concludes that the more useful schemata is determined by the context rather than one schemata type always being more important than the other. (FL)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Memory, Reading Processes, Reading Research
Peer reviewedDuffelmeyer, Frederick A. – Reading World, 1979
Reports a study showing that reading comprehension of college students who were poor readers increased when passages were rewritten editing out abstract nouns and verb-nominalizations and replacing them with either concrete nouns or full verbs, but that comprehension of average and good readers did not change with the revisions. (TJ)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Readability, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulty
Peer reviewedBerk, Barbara; Mazurkiewicz, Albert J. – Reading World, 1976
Concludes that despite instructional emphasis on one correct spelling, a large segment of the sample populations in this study spell differently from that usually thought correct and that a number of students, teachers, and parents recognize the existence of equally correct alternatives. (RB)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Skills, Language Usage, Reading Research
Peer reviewedT. T. Hawley; And Others – Reading World, 1974
Presents a technique for analyzing eye movements in reading using a computer. (RB)
Descriptors: Eye Fixations, Eye Movements, Higher Education, Reading Rate
Peer reviewedCall, Patricia E. – Reading World, 1977
Describes a survey which sought to determine and analyze the status, current practices, and philosophies of existing college reading improvement programs in West Virginia. (JM)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reading Improvement, Reading Programs, Reading Research
Peer reviewedKaufman, Maurice – Reading World, 1977
Responds to criticisms by Kasdon of an article by the author concerning a study of the measurement of oral reading accuracy. (JM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Measurement Techniques, Oral Reading, Reading Research
Peer reviewedZirkel, Perry A.; Greene, John F. – Reading World, 1976
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Literature Reviews, Measurement, Reading
Peer reviewedBlanton, William E.; Tuinman, J. Jaap – Reading World, 1973
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Literature Reviews, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
Peer reviewedGroff, Patrick – Reading World, 1972
Descriptors: Linguistics, Phonemics, Phonetic Analysis, Phonics
Peer reviewedRibovich, Jerilyn K. – Reading World, 1979
Describes a study in which it was found that informational background has some effect on reading speed and comprehension. (TJ)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Knowledge Level, Reading Comprehension, Reading Rate
