Many authors report data showing a high relationship between visual perception and early reading. This study dealt with the prediction of later reading from early Frostig test scores and the determination of existing relationships between Frostig treatment and reading skills two years later. Two hundred and seventy-four beginning first graders in…

The purposes of this study were to determine and describe the effects of using the work-attack element of the Wisconsin Design for Reading Skills Development (WDRSD) as an instructional management system for improving the reading skills achievements of pupils in K-3. The subjects for the study were 1,759 pupils in grades K-3. The dependent…

This study was based on the hypothesis that familiarity was an unrecognized factor producing gains scored on previous studies to determine whether a relationship between achievement in beginning reading and cognitive synthesis could be demonstrated. Subjects were 56 randomly selected kindergartners given Farnham-Diggory's synthesis tasks as a…

This study investigated the hypothesis that an effective program in developmental reading is generally a significant factor in the academic achievement of college students at the University of Akron. The data collected came from various sources, i.e., reports of investigations on the effectiveness of 18 well-established reading and study skills…

This manual describes the Arizona Right to Read Needs Assessment Package, which is designed to assist individual schools in evaluating their current reading program, personnel, and achievement. The package contains an introduction followed by a summary of techniques of assessing student performance, a description of current reading programs and…

This study investigated the effects of three different word-decoding instructional procedures: a single-letter (SL) approach, a letter-combination (LC) approach, and a procedure in which children receive several weeks' instruction in the SL method and then switch to the LC approach. Grade 1 pupils were assigned at random to the three treatment…

A longitudinal study was undertaken to determine whether measures that are readily available in most school districts, administered in kindergarten by classroom teachers, could predict reading achievement as measured by standardized tests in grades 1 through 4. The subjects were 553 children in the kindergarten class of 1964-65 in Ithaca, New…

This study was designed (1) to determine if the Wepman Auditory Discrimination Test and a group modification of the test would produce the same measure of auditory discrimination ability, (2) to determine if either the individual or group version of the test can be used to predict reading achievement, and (3) to obtain information relating…

This study evaluated the effectiveness of four selected indicators for measuring interest-in-reading--the San Diego County Inventory of Reading Attitude, standardized verbal achievement test scores, peer ratings, and teacher ratings. The design of the study involved creating low, average, and high interest-in-reading groups, by sex, at each of…

This report, an expansion on "The Interim Report: Research of the New Nursery School," is presented in three sections. The first section examines the test results of 29 children enrolled in the New Nursery School (NNS, for academically handicapped, low income Mexican-Americans) and the REN school (similar to the NNS but for children whose parents…

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of individual adult-child conferences in increasing the independent reading of elementary school children. Following an 8-week baseline period, second, fourth, and sixth graders of both high and low reading achievement were randomly assigned to no-conference, teacher-conference, or…

The Communication Skills Center Project (CSC) in Detroit, Michigan, a Title I project, provided remedial reading services to 2,845 educationally disadvantaged children (80 to 85 percent Negro) in grades 2 through 12 during 1966-67. The facilities included six communication skills centers, three serving elementary and junior high school students…

To explore the effects of listening instruction on first graders' achievement and, specifically, to assess improvement in listening comprehension and determine the effect of listening instruction on achievement in reading comprehension are the purposes of this study. Six first grade classes were randomly assigned to three groups. A program of…

Results of an investigation of the effects of perceptual training upon selected measures of reading achievement are reported. Subjects were 87 second-grade children of average intelligence who had evidenced reading difficulties as well as perceptual deficits. They were chosen from the Glen Cove, New York, school district on the basis of their…

Teaching beginning reading using the Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.) was experimented with in a project which had the dual purpose of (1) providing educators with the opportunity to observe the use of i.t.a., and (2) determining the effectiveness of i.t.a. with Mexican American bilingual children. Twenty i.t.a. demonstration classes…