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Grant, Patricia L. – 1978
Instruction that promotes the awareness and use of contextual aids in reading may be achieved by use of the cloze procedure in the classroom; training with the cloze procedure helps to focus the attention of the student on the conceptual aspect of reading rather than on the perceptual, and may be used from the primary grades through college. This…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Materials
Cortez, Emilio G. – RELC Journal, 1975
The article stresses that more attention should be given to listening and reading skills in second-language learning, and outlines a technique known as snap reading. The advantages of the technique include practice in listening and reading skills, evaluation of oral performance, and reducing frustration of language learning. (CLK)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Listening Skills, Oral Reading
Garner, Ruth – 1982
Explanations for differences in reading proficiency should be constructed around an atlas of reading-related individual differences in cognition. Such an atlas should include well-documented "bottom-up", text-driven reading strategies and less thoroughly investigated "top-down", schema-driven reading strategies. Research…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Individual Differences, Language Processing
Umansky, Warren; And Others – 1980
The guide offers a means for evaluating specific learning characteristics of visually impaired children at three levels: prereadiness (prekindergarten), readiness (kindergarten), and academic (primary grades). Items are designed to be administered by informal observation and structured testing. Score sheets contain space for reporting two testing…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Daily Living Skills, Educational Diagnosis, Evaluation Methods
Georgia Univ., Athens. Div. for Exceptional Children. – 1980
The document contains work sheets and score sheets for a curriculum designed for visually impaired students at the prereadiness (prekindergarten), readiness (kindergarten), and academic (primary grades) levels. Work sheets include pictures, word lists, sentence exercises, mathematics problems, and diagrams. Score sheets, which correspond to the…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Communication Skills, Daily Living Skills, Early Childhood Education
Holmes, Betty C. – 1981
A study was conducted to gain insight into the question answering abilities of good and poor readers by comparing how well they answered questions when their prior knowledge was at two different levels (high, low) and in four different states. These states of prior knowledge consisted of the ways in which answers to the questions were stored in…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Grade 5, High Achievement, Intermediate Grades
Garbarino, Maureen – 1980
Before an effective program can be developed to help the remedial writing student, instructors must dispel the myth that college students can read college level materials. Related to this assumption is the belief that those who cannot read in college cannot do so because of a lack of intelligence. Clearly what is important in understanding the…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Learning Problems, Reading Ability
Download full textFowler, Carol A. – 1978
The phonological information provided by written words may be used by the reader as a convenient temporary storage medium and as a way of gaining access to the lexicon. Beginning readers should be able to exploit the sound-based patterning of the orthography in reading single words and to bypass it on occasion. Some words do not conform to English…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Learning Theories
West, Ellen M.; Lagotic, Diana L. – 1978
In an effort to minimize initial testing of adult students, a ten-item "Adult Reading Survey" was developed to measure self-perception as related to reading ability. Survey responses of 184 adult education students ranging in age from 15 to 68 were correlated to reading test results to determine levels of accuracy. Portions of two tests, the "Test…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adults, High School Equivalency Programs, Measurement Instruments
Page, William D. – 1979
The comprehending score is a theoretically derived measure of language processing that identifies those miscues that indicate that the reader is making sense of the printed language he or she is attempting to read. A study was undertaken to explore the relationships between post oral reading cloze test scores and seven theoretically constructed…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education, Language Processing, Miscue Analysis
ROTH, LOIS H.; AND OTHERS – 1966
THE RESULTS OF A READING WORK CONFERENCE HELD IN DENVER, COLORADO, IN FEBRUARY 1966, TO DEVELOP GUIDELINES FOR PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING DIAGNOSTIC READING PROGRAMS, ARE PRESENTED. TOPICS DISCUSSED INCLUDE A DEFINITION OF READING, THE PROCESSES OF READING, THE ROLES OF THE TEACHER, READING CONSULTANT, AND PRINCIPAL, THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Curriculum Guides, Reading Ability, Reading Consultants
CARTER, HOMER L. J.; MCGINNIS, DOROTHY J. – 1966
FACTORS CONSIDERED CRUCIAL IN CONDUCTING A COLLEGE-ADULT READING PROGRAM BY THE WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY READING STAFF ARE PRESENTED AS A GUIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW READING PROGRAMS ON THIS LEVEL. EIGHT PRINCIPLES DERIVED FROM EXPERIENCE WITH THE 22-YEAR-OLD WESTERN MICHIGAN READING PROGRAM CONCERNING TEACHER ROLE, A STUDENT'S…
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Students, Developmental Reading, Educational Objectives
DEUTSCH, MARTIN; KATZ, PHYLLIS A. – 1963
THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN AUDITORY AND VISUAL FUNCTIONING AND READING ACHIEVEMENT WERE EXPLORED. AN ADDITIONAL OBJECTIVE WAS TO INVESTIGATE THE INFLUENCE OF DEVELOPMENTAL FACTORS ON THESE VARIABLES. A WIDE RANGE OF AUDITORY AND VISUAL SKILLS WAS SAMPLED IN POOR AND NORMAL READERS AT THREE DIFFERENT GRADE LEVELS (FIRST, THIRD, AND FIFTH). DATA…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Child Development, Concept Formation
MANNING, JOHN C. – 1966
THIS RESEARCH STUDY EVALUATED THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THREE METHODS OF FIRST-GRADE READING INSTRUCTION EMPLOYING SIMILAR BASAL READER STORY CONTENT. THE THREE METHODS WERE--(A) THE INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES OUTLINED IN THE TEACHERS MANUAL ACCOMPANYING THE GINN BASIC READING SERIES, (B) A LEVELS-DESIGNED PROGRAM STRESSING EARLY INTENSIVE LETTER…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 1, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement
Cohen, Elizabeth G. – 1980
The Multi-Ability classroom signifies changes for desegregated classrooms in both task and evaluation structure, so as to prevent consistent dominance by high status students. In an exploratory study, the effects of a changed task structure were examined in fifth and sixth grade racially mixed classrooms. These classrooms received a small group…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Desegregation, Classroom Techniques, Desegregation Methods
