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Download full textAllen, JoBeth – 1983
First, second, and third grade students were asked to draw inferences after reading stories written by themselves, by peers, and by adults. The 70 subjects were divided into groups of slow-inaccurate, slow-accurate, and fast-accurate readers. After reading each type of story, they responded to six questions requiring text-based inferences.…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Cognitive Processes, Decoding (Reading), Language Experience Approach
Rankin, Earl F.; Overholser, Betsy M. – J Reading Behav, 1969
Descriptors: Context Clues, Intermediate Grades, Language Experience Approach, Phrase Structure
Merryman, Milisande Louise – 1973
This study investigated the effect on the reading comprehension of preschool children of matching syntactic patterns in written materials to patterns in their level of language acquisition. It also examined whether a language experience method or a prescribed vocabulary method had different effects on the results. Eighty randomly selected subjects…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Acquisition, Language Experience Approach, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedFerguson, Anne M.; Fairburn, Jo – Reading Teacher, 1985
Reports findings of a study demonstrating that language experience techniques can help students comprehend math story problems and successfully apply the mathematical concepts necessary for their solution. (FL)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedGrabe, Mark; Grabe, Cindy – Reading Teacher, 1985
Reports findings of a study demonstrating that language experience techniques can help students comprehend math story problems and successfully apply the mathematical concepts necessary for their solution. (FL)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedCagney, Margaret A. – Reading Teacher, 1977
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Grade 1, Kindergarten, Language Experience Approach
Collins, Linda – 1987
A study investigated what effect, if any, a planned program of writing activities had on reading comprehension. A group of second grade students from Linden Elementary School, West Virginia, were the subjects. Subjects were divided into a control (12 students) and an experimental (13 students) group. Both groups were given a pretest and a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Instructional Effectiveness, Language Experience Approach
Sensi, Karen Elgrim – 1982
A study was conducted to determine whether students comprehend student-authored material more easily than the material of published authors. The Fry Readability Graph was used to estimate the readability of 8 published passages of 200-270 words, which varied from grade 5 through grade 10. The topic of each passage was listed and used in a 2-day…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Grade 10
Norman, Douglas; Balyeat, Ralph – 1974
This study grew out of an objective of the Upper Cumberland Reading Project, funded under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and serving 13 Appalachian counties of Tennessee. The objectives called for development of a diagnostic test especially suited to the needs of rural mountain children to be used by teachers as an aid to…
Descriptors: Classification, Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach
Peer reviewedAllen, Jobeth – Reading Research Quarterly, 1985
Children in first, second, and third grades were subjects in a study that investigated how well they drew inferences after reading their own dictated stories, peer-dictated stories, and adult-written stories. Results showed they inferred better if they dictated the story themselves or if they were accurate decoders. (HOD)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary School Students, Inferences, Language Experience Approach
Jenkins, Joseph R.; Pany, Darlene – 1978
This report describes several prominent reading comprehension programs for use in grades three through eight and discusses some research studies on these programs effectiveness in terms of student achievement. Three basal reading series are compared and descriptions are given of the DISTAR reading and language programs, objective-based reading…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach
Dank, Marion Edelson – 1976
Second-grade pupils using the Ginn "Reading 360" or the McGraw-Hill "Programmed Reading" were compared in their reading and retelling of the story "King Alfred and the Cakes." Analysis, using the Reading Miscue Inventory, of the performance of 20 selected pupils indicated that those taught with "Programmed…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 2, Language Experience Approach
Resnick, Lauren B. – 1977
This report, the summary of a series of conferences on reading research, identifies two main theories about the nature of reading: (1) reading as translation, wherein printed symbols are translated into an approximation of oral language, so that the capabilities for understanding speech can be applied to written language, and (2) reading as an…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach
Sampson, Michael R.; And Others – 1982
Publishers of basal reading series claim that beginning reading materials must contain primarily high frequency words and that new words must be introduced gradually. Inherent in their argument is the position that reading is based on the student's ability to recognize words and that short, phonetically regular words are easier to read. To examine…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Comparative Analysis, Grade 1, Language Experience Approach
Lumpkin, Donavon, Ed.; And Others – 1987
Articles in this yearbook contribute to a broad perspective of changing concepts of reading, each focusing attention on an area of major factors exercising current impact on reading and on the education of reading teachers. The articles and their authors are as follows: "Learning from Text" (T. Estes); "Untying the Gordian Knot" (W. Blanton and G.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Language Experience Approach
