The effects of the use of traditional series readiness workbooks and subsequent delay in beginning reading instruction on reading achievement at the middle and end of first grade were investigated. Fifty-seven percent of the children in a suburban school district used traditional readiness workbooks and of the remaining 43%, some used non-series…

There are physical, social, emotional, mental, and language factors influencing the development of readiness for independence in word recognition. It is important to let the chld gain a variety of experiences prior to school entrance, such as the parents reading aloud to the child and allowing him to follow the lines with his eyes while listening.…

This manual contains supervisor's materials and a tutor's guide to accompany CS 000 427. There are samples of materials that can be duplicated for tutor training and student instruction. Included in this manual are: (1) suggestions for subdivision of pages and adaptation of comprehension questions; (2) lesson sheets and review sheets; (3) record…

This study discusses methods for integrating aural-oral instruction in grammar and usage within the total program of junior and senior high school English. The fundamental purpose of this method is to teach students speaking nonstandard English dialects the why, how, and when of using a second dialect. The study discusses (1) a definition of…

This book is a collection of 571 activities to reinforce reading skills. The rationale for each skill is presented as an introduction to each skill area. The rationales explain (1) why the skill needs to be reinforced, (2) how to understand the skill, and (3) what the child should be able to do after completing the activities. Chapter 1 discusses…

This book is intended for students in colleges of education and classroom teachers. The book consists of three parts. Part one discusses the historical, linguistic, and psychological background to the learning and teaching of reading. Areas given primary consideration are language and reading, skills and abilities involved in the reading process,…

The purpose of this book is to give classroom teachers some guidelines for making learning to read a more meaningful experience for each child. The art of pacing and challenging a child through inductive teaching is detailed and techniques for guiding the child in self-selection and planning his time are described. Unit teaching in a…

The purpose of this study was to determine the relative effectiveness of a programed linguistically-based reading approach with an eclectic approach when used with disadvantaged children in grades one and two in a rural county of northern Florida. The children, 137 first and second grade students, were stratified according to sex and race and…

This study investigated whether the number of oral reading miscues differs for reflective and impulsive children, whether the proportion of miscues that are semantically appropriate, syntactically appropriate, or graphically similar differ for the two groups, and whether the two groups differ in their self-correction behavior as it relates to…

This study investigated differences in reading skills, scope of reading, and quality of reading between ninth and tenth grade students in a developmental English program and ninth and tenth grade students in a regular program. No differences in reading skill were found among either ninth or tenth grade students tested. There was little difference…

This student activity book is intended for junior high or high school students. Originally written to be used in a summer television course, the material can be adapted to a regular class situation. The wide variety of materials are relevant to courses in reading, literature, composition, speech, psychology, and social studies. The book includes…

In this assessment of the reading rate and literal comprehension skills of 9, 13, and 17 year olds, and of young adults between the ages of 26 and 35, individuals were asked to read two passages, one more difficult than the other according to readability formulas. Then each subject was asked to answer five multiple choice comprehension questions…

This teacher's handbook for computer assisted instruction (CAI) in reading describes a CAI program and presents sample lessons. The reading program for grades 3-6 consists of reading practice items designed to develop the student's skills in five areas: word analysis, vocabulary extension, comprehension of sentence structure, interpretation of…

Forty sub-literate adults were given reading and comprehension skill training. Twenty of the subjects were taught using a multimedia, multimodal and multilevel communication skill system (Experimental Group). The other twenty were taught in a traditional manner using standard reading texts (Control Group). Both Groups received an average of 265…

Equally divided by sex, grade level, and socioeconomic status, 360 subjects were used in two major experiments. Experiment 1 (Sentence Recall) attempted to answer three questions: (1) What are some of the developmental differences between standard and nonstandard speech? (2) To what extent are these differences sex and social class bound? (3) To…