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Download full textGRAHAM, ROBERT J. – 1968
MUCH OF LANGUAGE ARTS TEACHING IS BASED ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT WORDS ARE NATURAL UNITS OF LANGUAGE AND THAT PRINTED WORDS HAVE ONE-TO-ONE CORRESPONDENCES WITH WORDS IN SPEECH. THE OUTCOME OF THIS ASSUMPTION IS TO EMPHASIZE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHILD'S SIGHT VOCABULARY AND WORD PERCEPTION, ESPECIALLY IN RELATION TO THE TEACHING OF READING.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Graphemes, Intonation, Language Patterns
Cooper, Minna; And Others – 1964
This guide is designed to provide seventh-grade social studies teachers with materials needed to present instruction in reading skills and to teach those facts, concepts, and attitudes which are the aim of social studies education. Entries on the subject of New York State government and local government are arranged by topic, and material within…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Content Area Reading, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Guides
McGuire, Marion L. – 1968
A statewide assessment study of reading programs in Rhode Island is described. Data concerning the history of the primary reading program of the 1965-66 fourth-grade class were gathered; a status study of the reading programs throughout the elementary grades for that year was conducted. Principals' and teachers' opinions on the requirements for a…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Environmental Influences, Phonics, Reading Comprehension
Johnson, Joseph Carlton; Jacobson, Milton D. – 1968
The general reading attainment realized by 44 college-bound senior high school students in a 12-week program was studied. The effects of intelligence, sex, race, high school attended, college board scores, age, college choice, and socioeconomic status on the criterion variables of reading rate, vocabulary, and comprehension were also studied. The…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Bound Students, Intelligence Differences, Racial Differences
Johnson, Marjorie Seddon, Ed.; Kress, Roy A., Ed. – 1968
The 12 papers in this volume examine issues of import in the field of reading by first identifying and defining the crucial issues and then by providing for their illumination. Some issues discussed are comprehension, evaluation, research, and vocabulary. Also discussed are beginning reading, remedial reading, reading materials, word recognition,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Organization, Comprehension, Content Area Reading
Slater, Barbara Ruth
Effects of school noise conditions on student written task performance were studied. Three noise levels were examined--(1) irregular interval noise, 75-90 decibels, (2) average or normal noise, and (3) quiet condition, 45-55 decibels. An attempt was made to reproduce noise conditions typical of the school environment. A second controlled…
Descriptors: Acoustical Environment, Anxiety, Attitude Measures, Auditory Perception
Powell, William R. – 1968
The widely accepted 95 percent word recognition criterion used for designating the instructional reading level is re-evaluated. A survey of the original study of Betts and Killgallon indicated (1) that the 95 percent word recognition criterion was based on a 41-case sample at the fourth-grade level, (2) that repetition errors occurred most…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Elementary School Students, Informal Reading Inventories, Language Learning Levels
Cooper, Minna; And Others – 1964
This guide is designed to provide seventh-grade social studies teachers with materials needed to present instruction in reading skills and to teach those facts, concepts, and attitudes which are the aim of social studies education. Entries on the subject of early New York history are arranged by topic, and material within each topic is arranged…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Content Area Reading, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Guides
Bulcock, Jeffrey Wilson; And Others – 1977
This report provides an overview of a series of studies testing the thesis that basic reading skill is a powerful mediating mechanism in social psychological explanations of pupil performances in a range of subject-matter outcomes of schooling. Basing analyses on the data base of the International Association outcomes of schooling. Basing analyses…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Content Area Reading, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Beck, Isabel L. – 1977
This paper proposes that phonics and meaning instruction in beginning reading programs can be designed to be mutually supportive. The first section outlines attempts to modify a commercially available reading program in order to provide useful phonics instruction strategies. Students showed strong gains on achievement tests after implementation of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Phonics, Primary Education
Collins, Allan M.; And Others – 1977
This report describes the rationale and procedures for a series of studies related to reading tasks and reading texts. Children's reading tasks are examined in five strands of investigation: ability to read for meaning, ability to read for doing, ability to read for remembering, comprehension difficulties in skilled readers, and classroom…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Literature Reviews, Readability
Mahoney, Joseph E. – 1977
Some practical ways to improve reading skills in social studies classes without sacrificing content objectives and goals are presented. It is emphasized that social studies teachers are best suited to teach reading skills in their own subject field. Social studies teachers need to focus on three reading skills: vocabulary development and word…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Measurement
Prentice, Walter C.; Peterson Joe – 1977
Standardized reading tests exert a great influence on curriculum materials, teaching methods, and student perceptions of the nature of reading; these tests must reflect the best recent research findings. Passage dependency research has attempted to increase the accuracy of reading tests, and has focused on the following four areas: (1) reading…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Literature Reviews, Miscue Analysis, Psycholinguistics
Hunt, Earl – 1978
It is difficult to account for the real and easily measured differences in verbal competence. Differential psychologists investigate basic traits from which observed behavior is thought to be generated, but if thinking is viewed as a problem in information handling, research will more profitably focus on the relationship between behavior in…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Ability, Intelligence Differences, Learning Processes
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of General Education Curriculum Development. – 1976
Instructors can use this inventory to prepare high school equivalency students for the reading skills test of the new form of the Test of General Educational Development (GED). It replaces the instrument previously recommended for that purpose, the Iowa Tests of Educational Development (ITED). Fifty multiple choice questions test the ability to…
Descriptors: Classification, Critical Reading, Diagnostic Tests, Equivalency Tests
