This fifth grade text provides music and rhythmic activities for the development of both musical skills and appreciation. The learning of music symbols, notes, chords, rhythm, harmony, and specific songs is stressed. While most of the songs were composed in the contiguous 48 United States, music from Hawaii and from other countries is included.…

This document describes an experimental program which is designed to help students from grade 5 to grade 7 who are working at or slightly below grade level maintain mathematics skills. Students receive nine home-study packets containing two to four lessons each. Parents must make a commitment to supervise the home-study. The 25 lessons presented…

Children's reading comprehension of explicit, implicit, and metaphorical information was investigated to determine the effects of grade level and recall task type. After reading prose selections containing the three types of information, 40 second and 40 fifth grade students were assessed on either cued or free recall tasks. Their comprehension…

The SCOPE Mathematics Achievement Test booklet for grade 5 presents 11 mathematical concepts with instructions for students to take the test with little or no teacher direction. Testing items include: writing number words; reading and writing numerals in sequence from 0.001 to 100,000; adding and subtracting whole numbers; multiplying up to four…

A study investigated the role of visual imagery in the comprehension and retention of prose. Subjects were 48 fifth grade students who orally read a story and then completed three comprehension tasks directly related to the story: a retelling, an oral reading cloze test, and a multiple choice question test comprised of items demonstrated to be…

Since 1979, New York State has been working on an instrument to evaluate elementary school students' writing ability. Several thousand writing samples were obtained and were analyzed, by a test development committee consisting of elementary school teachers, qualitatively within each grade as high, average, and low, and in terms of organization and…

This report evaluated a cooperative teaching program designed to provide supplementary diagnostic and prescriptive reading instructional services to New York City elementary school students who were more than one grade level behind in reading. Three hundred students in grades three through six received reading instruction in reading laboratories.…

This study examined the effects of socio-economic status (SES) and categories of learning when holding ethnicity constant. Seventy-two subjects were randomly selected from two socioeconomic levels; 36 each from middle and low socioeconomic status. Fourth and fifth grade children were used. Three hypotheses were tested: (1) positive correlations…

Contained in this publication are activity units for grades five and six on the following topics: the individual and his environments, world of work, self, economics, education and training, employability and work adjustment, and vocational decision making. Each unit gives developmental objectives, related behavioral objectives, suggested…

Listening lessons, working in pairs, content area reinforcement, and study skills are helpful elements of a successful reading program. (JH)

Strength of four-person protocols as contrasted with the clinical interview and two-person protocols are described in the following areas: identification of odd and idiosyncratic heuristics revealed through reflexive talk; generalizable results that emerge from prolonged discussion; and opportunities to study learning in small groups. The study…

There are many children, termed "perseverative," whose reading comprehension problems stem from the fact that they form hypotheses about the meaning of a text at the onset of reading, then fail to evaluate or modify those hypotheses on the basis of subsequent text findings. A study was undertaken to identify such readers and to explore…

A study was conducted to gain insight into the question answering abilities of good and poor readers by comparing how well they answered questions when their prior knowledge was at two different levels (high, low) and in four different states. These states of prior knowledge consisted of the ways in which answers to the questions were stored in…

A study was conducted to determine the stability of the effect of sex-typed reading material on the reading interests and comprehension of fifth grade boys and girls. It involved a direct replication of a 1967 study so that a comparison of data from the 312 subjects of that study could be made with the data from 374 subjects of 1979. Reading…