Four learning-disabled students, aged 12-15, were given relaxation training exercises, after which their performance in oral reading was measured. Results indicated that, for three of the four students, the use of audiotaped relaxation exercises improved their oral reading performances. (Author/JDD)

Explores how well measures of verbal short-term memory and naming speed tasks predict children's reading achievement under various IQ control conditions. Both were effective, but when controlling for verbal IQ, memory measures are less reliable, whereas digit-naming speed remains a significant predictor of reading achievement. (MM)

Indicates a reasonable range of individual differences in the dark interval threshold (DIT). Reveals a significant interaction between DIT and illumination level in their effect on reading accuracy. Finds that children with a short DIT read more accurately in high rather than low illumination and that this performance was reversed for long DIT…

Outlines the importance of principals' focusing their school's curriculum on the development of reading skills through ideas such as (a) faculty inservice and orientation programs, (b) organization of faculty reading planning teams, (c) allocation of resources, (d) supportive classroom visits, and (e) informal evaluation systems to ascertain…

To assess the relative strengths of mothers' education, parenting styles, and children's preschool experience in predicting children's verbal attainment scores, this study used data derived from a cohort of 5,362 children born in March, l946. Although preschool experience was an independent and significant predictor of verbal attainment scores,…

Describes the results of a remedial program provided to an adult subject who had incurred aphasia and alexia as a result of a series of strokes. (FL)

This study was designed to explore relations among reading skills, metareading, memory, and metamemory. Interactions among these skills were investigated as related to reading ability, operativity, and grade level. The effects of experience, operativity, and metacognition on reading and memory skills were discussed. (Author/DWH)

Presents conceptual framework for classification of poor readers based on a sample of over 5,214 children between 9 and 10.7 years. The framework is based on the notion of low achievers (those whose reading attainment is low but who attain the expected level) and underachievers (those whose reading is poor but who ought to read at a higher level).…

Indicates that students who received organizational instruction wrote better summaries than did students who received traditional instruction. (FL)

Supports predictions concerning two consequences of combining merit pay and other business practices within a reading program: (1) that school personnel would constrict their definitions of reading and reading instruction to those prescribed by district policy and that (2) teachers would consider reading instruction less fulfilling than they did…

Scores of slow learners on measures of closemindedness, critical thinking, self-esteem, and reading were found to be significantly related to their IQ scores. No relationships were found between self-esteem and reading, civil liberties and critical thinking, and self-esteem and interest in contemporary problems. (RM)

Reaffirms the relationship between classification and reading and supports the emphasis on the substrata factor theory on classification and superordination in particular. (FL)

The Chicago Heart Health Curriculum Program was implemented in a large urban school to compare the differential involvement of four race/ethnic groups in family intervention and to evaluate the program's impact on students' nutrition knowledge. Results indicate success in conducting family intervention with an educationally and racially diverse…

The article gives a step-by-step procedure for vocational teachers to follow in determining the appropriateness of the reading level of specific instructional materials to their students' reading skills. An example is given of the procedure applied to "The Stockman's Handbook." (AJ)

The present study tested the effects of assisted-repeated reading on four first-grade students--a special education student, an at-risk, student, an English as a Second Language (ESL) student, and a general education student. The students engaged in echo and assisted-repeated reading two times a week for eight weeks. Each session lasted between 10…