THE CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED CHILD, ALTHOUGH VERY VERBAL IN HIS LOCAL ENVIRONMENT, IS USUALLY VERBALLY DEFICIENT WITH RESPECT TO SOCIETY AS A WHOLE. PART OF THE ANSWER TO PROVIDING A MORE EFFECTIVE LANGUAGE EDUCATION TO THE CULTURALLY DEPRIVED YOUTH IS ENRICHMENT OR COMPENSATORY PROGRAMS LIKE HEAD START. TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECT OF THE AUSTIN…

THE POSSIBILITY OF A CORRELATION BETWEEN HAND-EYE COORDINATION AND READING DISABILITY WAS INVESTIGATED. CHILDREN FROM GRADES 2 TO 12 WERE TESTED TO DETERMINE THEIR HAND-EYE COORDINATION USING A PORTABLE TESTING DEVICE FOR QUANTATIVE MEASURE RECENTLY DEVELOPED. THE SUBJECTS INCLUDED APPROXIMATELY 1,700 NORMAL PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS AND 290 STUDENTS…

One of the most important assumptions of modern theories about self-image is that the maintenance and enhancement of the perceived self is the motive behind all behavior. Sense of self may be based on the views of others, it may be the result of interactions with others who provide meaning of self through their responses, it may come from…

A free response cloze test was administered to 31 third graders to test the hypothesis that qualitative as well as quantitative differences in syntactic abilities or skills exist between good and poor readers. The subjects were divided into two reading level groups (good readers and poor readers) according to their scores on the SRA Assessment…

This report summarizes information regarding populations, methods, evaluation and instructional materials, analyses, and results from three doctoral dissertations that used the Word Attack component of the Wisconsin Design for Reading Skill Development as an instructional and assessment instrument. The first study investigated the assumption that…

This publication of Title I in Ohio is stated to provide a summary of activities for fiscal 1973-74 school year and the summer that followed. Each year since 1966, most school districts in Ohio have conducted Title I programs for eligible students, who, for various reasons, have fallen behind their classmates in reading or mathematics. In some…

This study investigated storage and retrieval strategies as evidenced by systematic errors of first grade beginning readers on a noun-noun paired-associate learning task. The subjects were 80 black children and 80 white children, in three racially integrated Cincinnati public schools, attending the first grade for the first time. These 160…

This study was conducted to determine the relationship between listening comprehension and rate of presentation using meaningful prose materials. A total of 103 students from a suburban sixth-grade class in a central New Jersey school district participated in the study. To determine reading comprehension levels, the students were administered the…

This doctoral dissertation examines students' perceptions of their teachers' feelings toward them and possible relationships that exist between perceptions and reading achievement. In addition, the study sought to determine if differences in positive feelings exist among Caucasian, Negro, and Indian students; between Title I and non-Title I…

This report is divided into two parts in order to make the practical outcomes of a content referenced interpretive system for standardized reading tests available for immediate use by teachers and others, while presenting the technical aspects of the studies in a form appropriate for study by researchers in the fields of reading and educational…

A reading conference in the Chicago area provided a setting in which to systematically explore the views of 24 professionals regarding a number of statements about Informal Reading Inventories (IRIs). The results obtained from a 24-item questionnaire indicated that professionals perceive IRIs as instruments which generate more questions than…

The purpose of this study was to determine if two testing methods, multiple choice and cloze technique, differentially affected students' scores on reading comprehension tests. The tests were compared in their emphasis on cognition and production related abilities as defined by Guilford. Ninety-three Durham County sixth graders were given a…

Social dialect is demonstrated as an important factor in the low performance of Black children on language based academic achievement tests. The dialect measure accounted for a substantial percentage of the variance in reading and spelling while the IQ measure and social attitude accounted for a negligible amount of variance in these areas. The…

This study attempted to assess the relationship between misreading of high-frequency words and utilization of semantic and syntactic cue systems. A 250-word passage from a second-grade basal reader was altered in two ways: in one condition, the sentences were randomly ordered, and, in the other, the words were randomly ordered. Twenty-four fourth…

This four-part study, which focused on the relationship between the incidence of Black English and the child's perception that Black English is not preferred speech, identified the phonological characteristics in the dialect speech of black second grade children of low socioeconomic background in New York City public schools. Specifically, the…