The ability to read is vital. It paves the way to success in school, which can build self-confidence. It is power, key to personal growth. Through reading, we generate learning power that helps us know ourselves better and others as well. It also helps us understand past, present and future more clearly. So it is necessary for the teachers to find…

This step-by-step manual can be used to guide primary-grade students through retellings. The following will be discovered: (1) Developmental retelling strategies that match the reading level of each student; (2) How to build the foundation for quality retellings with activities that help students understand a story's events, sequence, and…

Research has shown that reading ability is positively correlated with the extent to which students read recreationally. Educators are increasingly encouraging their students to read and write on their own, outside of school. Changes in the frequency with which students (in grades 4, 8, and 11 in studies conducted from 1984 through 1994) read and…

This study compared the ability of college students with deafness and typical college students to transfer and apply their math computation and problem-solving skills to similar problems presented under different conditions. Thirty-seven students with deafness and 12 hearing students were given 30 math problems to solve that were presented under…

This document discusses the measurement of reading ability and the readability of books by application of the Lexile framework. It begins by stating the importance of uniform measures. It then discusses the history of reading ability testing, based on the assumption that no researcher has been able to measure more than one kind of reading ability.…

The major purpose of this investigation was to ascertain how many four year colleges and universities throughout the United States required undergraduates who were enrolled in elementary, secondary or junior high school teacher education curricula to complete at least one course in the teaching of reading. (Author/RK)

Discusses several factors of reading ability and their interrelationships at elementary, secondary, and college levels. (TO)

No longer will New York City elementary school children be promoted to the next grade, even though they are known to be over two years behind grade level in reading. (Author)

The present experiments attempt to study some effects of internal schemata is the orientation of letters. (Author)

This study examines the effects of sex, race, socioeconomic status, and intelligence upon the reading achievement test scores of sixth-grade pupils in one school district. Differential effects were found. (Author)

Results suggested that the ability to manipulate the phonetic components of the spoken language has an important bearing on the development of reading skill. (Authors)

Research supported by the U.S. Office of Education, under provisions of the Cooperative Research Program. (DD)

Purpose of this study was to determine whether a specific cell, Memory of Figural Units--Visual Mode (MFU-V), of the Structure of Intellect (SOI) can be significantly affected by training kindergarten and first-grade children, and whether improvement in MFU-V has a significant effect on reading achievement of first grade children. (Author)

It can be helpful in learning science if the teacher places some emphasis on reading and comprehending language correctly. Described are few points of language which children find difficulty in understanding. (PS)