Children's pronunciations of vowel clusters in synthetic words were analyzed in relation to common English words containing the same vowel clusters. Subjects were 436 elementary students of both high and low reading levels from a suburban, an urban, and a rural community. Conclusions of the study, reported in Part 2, were (1) pronunciations more…

Children's pronunciations of vowel clusters in synthetic words were analyzed in relation to common English words containing the same vowel clusters. Subjects were 436 elementary students of both high and low reading levels from a suburban, an urban, and a rural community. Discussion of the problem and procedures of the study are found in Part 1,…

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The idea that some definite designation of a child's reading ability can be gained from a grade level or percentile score on a standardized test is rejected in favor of the idea that such a score is only an estimate of ability. Informal tests in which children read from passages varying in difficulty can give much helpful information to teachers.…

The variables used in most readability formulas consist of counts of language elements which highly relate to comprehension scores on passages of a wide range of difficulty. The variables most often used are some measure of word difficulty and yield an index score representing the style difficulty of the passages to which they are applied…

Investigated was the functional relationship between specific academic survival skills (Attending, Volunteering, Work, and the negative behavior, Looking Around) and academic achievement (reading achievement). Ss were students in three regular first grade classrooms, one of which served as a control classroom. Following a teacher training program,…

Teacher mobility in San Diego schools was analyzed, using a two-stage least-squares approach. It was hypothesized that the average reading ability of students at a specific school depends on the degree of teacher movement from the school. More experienced teachers are able to move to the more attractive schools which educate the high achievers.…

Investigations reported during the past century have generally shown girls to be better readers than boys in the United States. Some researchers have attributed these differences to biological-maturational factors; others have suggested cultural-societal causes. The present study sought to examine this dichotomy by testing the reading ability of…

After establishing reliability for an associative verbal encoding (a/v/e) test, the relationship between children's a/v/e and their reading achievement was investigated. Two hypotheses were examined: (1) a/v/e will improve with training, and (2) associated with improved a/v/e will be concomitant improvement in reading achievement. The subjects…

Children with perceptual handicaps are often taught reading in the same manner as children in regular school placements. To present a description of the oral reading of such children, five were selected using the I.T.P.A., the Frostig, and the comments of a neurologist. They each read a story orally, and retold the story, following the reading. A…

Early and late first-grade children, third-grade poor and good readers, and adults named pictures under several interference conditions: with embedded intracategory or extracategory words, pronounceable or nonpronounceable letter strings, and visual noise. (Author/JMB)

Teacher characteristics and student variables go together to constitute a reading instructional program. (Author/MLF)

Discusses a study which compared the reading scores of first and fifth-grade subjects classified as reflective or impulsive. Reflective first-grade girls scored higher on all tests than impulsive girls, reflective first-grade boys scored higher than impulsive boys on the critical reading measure, and no differences were found for fifth-grade…

Reading specialists can and should take action that will help determine the nature of public policies affecting reading. (MKM)