Two methods for capturing the letter naming skills of kindergarteners were compared in power to predict Gates-McGinitie vocabulary and comprehension one year later. Both methods turned out essentially the same correlation coefficients. (Author)

Comparison of reading performance of retarded and normal first graders under wordlist and context conditions showed that context significantly facilitated word recognition equally for both groups - facilitation was not greater for normals. (KW)

Problem readers were as competent as average readers in associating non-representational linear forms with words, but were less competent in synthesizing whole sentences from individual linear forms. (Author/WY)

Includes a list of novels in the order of their popularity among an assorted group of 400 students. (RD)

Explores the influence of captions on acquisition of pictorial information and two types of verbal information by hearing-impaired viewers. Findings indicated that the pictorial aspect of the material neither hindered nor enhanced learning; however, the language level of captions can affect performance of certain tasks. Twenty references are…

Describes and presents findings from an educational research study in which 100 students in primary schools were tested with regard to individual variation which could be detected when the children viewed a white disc on a dark background which momentarily disappeared. Findings regarding the smallest dark interval for which the disk was reported…

Standardized reading test scores, family socioeconomic status (SES), and teacher-assigned reading groups of pupils in 37 midelementary classrooms from four school districts were examined. Little support was found for the conjecture that pupil or teacher social class plays a major role in elementary school reading grouping. (Author/GK)

Reports that, when challenged with interesting reading materials, superior elementary school students demonstrated "reserves" of reading comprehension power--an affect not found in average readers. (FL)

Students grouped as good or poor readers on the basis of a vocabulary test were asked to read a story from a certain perspective or with instructions to read carefully to demonstrate that the orientation readers take while reading a passage influences the specific information that will be retained from that passage. (HOD)

This study was designed to explore the sensitivity of children to orthographic structure, particularly across two grade levels and between two levels of reading ability within each grade. (HOD)

Examining the reading level of two series of high school physics texts widely used between 1954 and 1976, this study indicates that the reading level of these two texts did increase during the 1960s while at the same time there was a decline in overall reading ability as reflected by SAT scores. (JC)