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Download full textLott, Deborah; And Others – 1968
A proposal that the normal reader does not pay attention to individual letters but to sets of features which are characteristic of a word as a whole is presented and tested in this investigation. It was hypothesized that the reader learns (1) to extract distinctive feature information simultaneously from several parts of the configuration and (2)…
Descriptors: Printing, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulty, Reading Materials
Thorson, Esther L. – 1975
Six separate experiments were undertaken to test the hypothesis that poor readers in first, second, and third grade would have more difficulty with simple perceptual discriminations than would good readers in the same grades. Various tasks were used in the experiments, including discrimination of line orientations, checking letters in three-letter…
Descriptors: Failure, Perceptual Development, Primary Education, Reaction Time
Peer reviewedTimko, Henry G. – Visible Language, 1973
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Reading Ability, Reading Difficulty
McAninch, Myrene – 1969
The relationship between reading ability and recognition of four kinds of perceptual stimuli for purposes of reading disability diagnosis was investigated. The sample consisted of 84 male grade-3 pupils who were matched on intellectual ability but who differed in reading proficiency. Three groups, based on a 6-month discrepancy either above or…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Predictive Measurement, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Difficulties
Peer reviewedTremonti, Joseph B. – Florida Reading Quarterly, 1971
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Auditory Discrimination, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
Allington, Richard L.; And Others – 1975
This study presented 24 third graders drawn from suburban elementary schools with high frequency, low discriminability words in four conditions. Subjects were randomly assigned to the four tasks individually. It was hypothesized that poor and normal readers would differ in their ability to read high frequency, low discriminability words presented…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 3, Reading Difficulty, Reading Processes
Leeds, Donald S. – Journal of the Reading Specialist, 1971
Reviews research on various physical factors related to learning and reading disabilities, also providing a 58-item bibliography. (VJ)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Biological Influences, Cerebral Dominance, Language Acquisition
Smith, Helen K., Ed. – 1968
This bulletin is a compilation of papers dealing with the role of perceptual functions in reading and reading difficulties that were delivered at the 1966-67 Convention of the International Reading Association. Various sections are devoted to discussions of and reports of research on such matters as the auditory and visual modalities in reading,…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Learning Modalities, Paired Associate Learning, Perception
Oxford, Rebecca L. – 1978
Frequently a variety of visual perception difficulties correlate with reading disabilities. A study was made to investigate the relationship between visual perception and reading disability in families, and to explore the genetic aspects of the relationship. One-hundred twenty-five reading-disabled students, ages 7.5 to 12 years, were matched with…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Characteristics, Learning Disabilities
Fisher, Dennis F. – 1976
Some basic pattern-analyzing functions that occur during the reading process are described in this paper. The functions deal mainly with the analysis of typographical factors such as word shape, spacing, and orientation, but they also interact with contextual variables. The research interpreted in the paper proposes an attentional model of reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Conference Reports, Eye Movements
Vernon, Magdalen D., Comp. – 1973
The lengthy annotations in this bibliography of recent research on visual perception and its relation to reading are classified in four main groupings: (1) development of perception of complex forms and attention to significant details, (2) the ability to perceive visual form in relation to reading, (3) perception of letters and words, and (4)…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Students, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
LOMBARD, AVIMA; STERN, CAROLYN – 1967
AN INSTRUMENT FOR MEASURING VISUAL DISCRIMINATION ABILITY WITHOUT CONFOUNDING VARIABLES OF MOTOR SKILLS HAS BEEN CONSTRUCTED. TO AVOID THE EYE-HAND COORDINATION USUALLY REQUIRED ON THESE TESTS, A SELECTION, RATHER THAN A DRAWING, RESPONSE WAS DEVELOPED. THIS TEST, THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES DISCRIMINATION INVENTORY (VDI), CONSISTS…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Discrimination Learning, Dyslexia, Eye Hand Coordination
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 17 titles deal with the following topics: disadvantaged and nondisadvantaged students' detection of written fallacies in reasoning; the effects of remedial reading instruction, a camp-style reading/study program, and reading…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Auditory Training, Black Students, Compensatory Education
