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Mongiardo, Kathleen – 1988
In order to see if an extended-day kindergarten program has a greater effect than a half-day kindergarten program on reading achievement in the first-grade, a study compared standardized test scores of two different groups of first-grade students. Subjects, a group of 44 students who had participated in a half-day kindergarten program and a second…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children
Smith, Lynn C.; And Others – 1982
A study was conducted to compare students' recreational reading levels to their independent, instructional, and frustrational levels determinable with an informal reading inventory. Subjects, 20 second grade and 20 fifth grade students, were administered the Basic Reading Inventory. In addition, the school's librarian recorded titles of four books…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 2, Grade 5, Independent Reading
Download full textSander, Stephen I.; Duffy, Thomas M. – 1982
The relationship was examined between the reading grade levels (RGLs) of 5797 students and their performance in 46 Navy technical training schools. All incoming students to 41 Navy Class "A" schools and 5 Basic Electricity and Electronics strands were administered the Nelson-Denny Reading Comprehension Test and a learning strategies…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Educational Research, Learning Strategies
McIntosh, Margaret E. – 1983
A variety of techniques for improving readers' analysis-by-synthesis abilities (rapid, efficient reading typical of highly skilled readers) are presented in this paper. The techniques discussed in the first part emphasize improving reading comprehension and include the following: (1) modifications of the cloze procedure (encouraging readers to use…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
Anders, Patricia L.; Cardell, Douglas – 1977
This study surveyed random samples of the junior high school, college, and adult population groups in Tucson, Arizona, for reading habits, self-perceived reading abilities, and the ability to retain information read in local newspapers. The survey data indicate that members of all three groups believe that they comprehend more than their peers,…
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Community Surveys, Junior High School Students
Otto, Beverly; Sulzby, Elizabeth – 1981
In 1981, a scale, the Emergent Reading Ability Judgments for Dictated and Handwritten Stories, was developed for use in assessing how close a child was to reading independently based upon the nature of the child's attempts to read from dictated and handwritten stories. A study was conducted to apply the scale to stories from a new sample of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Behavior Rating Scales, Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten Children
Carroll, Bonnie A.; Drum, Priscilla A. – 1981
A study examined the use of context clues in identifying unknown words embedded in three types of text (fiction, exposition, and science). Subjects were 24 eighth grade students who read three passages at the fifth grade level, each with four content words deleted from them and replaced with pseudowords. Context clues for these pseudowords were…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Context Clues, Expository Writing, Fiction
Malmquist, Eve – 1981
In practically all countries, the governing bodies seem to be conscious of the important role the ability to read well plays in all educational activities. But the tremendous demand for education has far outpaced the supply. Since World War II, many new self-governing countries have been established of which most are illiterate. Since democracy in…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Beginning Reading, Comparative Education, Developing Nations
Kolczynski, Richard G. – 1978
A comparative analysis of the oral reading miscues of 20 average and above-average readers entering sixth grade was made in relation to syntax, semantics, and patterns of comprehension and grammatical relationships. Miscues generated while reading passages in science, social studies, mathematics, and literature were analyzed, and the relationship…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Content Area Reading, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Frederiksen, John R. – 1981
A project was organized to understand and identify basic variations in reading ability by its information processing components. Focusing on three major processing levels in reading--word analysis, discourse analysis, and integration of word/discourse analysis--preliminary research identified perceptual and cognitive skill components of reading…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Componential Analysis, Longitudinal Studies, Models
Smith, Cyrus F., Jr.; Western, Richard D. – 1978
Reading comprehension tests usually contain reading passages followed by multiple choice questions about the passages; but one potential weakness of this format is that the questions may be "passage independent," answerable without necessarily reading the passage first. When examining this phenomenon by assessing a particular test, the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 10, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension
Ewoldt, Carolyn – 1978
To develop a theoretical model of the reading process of the deaf, a study was devised that tested the viability of the Goodman reading model applied to sign language and evaluated a variety of comprehension-assessing techniques to identify those that provide the most information about a deaf reader's comprehension. For the study, four deaf…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deafness, Handicapped Children
Amoroso, Henry Carmelo, Jr. – 1978
Students from Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies, participated in a study to determine their overall reading ability as measured by norm- and criterion-referenced reading tests and to discover the extent to which linguistically related reading difficulties were manifested in their oral and silent reading performance. The Gates-MacGinitie Reading…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Nonstandard Dialects
Kern, Richard P. – 1980
This report was prepared to assist the United States Army in evaluating the usefulness of readability formulas in identifying material that will be comprehended by readers at a given reading skill level. Existing readability methods and research findings were reviewed against three major criterion questions and the findings are discussed. The…
Descriptors: Adults, Functional Reading, Job Training, Military Training
SINGER, HARRY – 1965
SEVERAL DEVELOPMENTAL HYPOTHESES DRAWN FROM THE SUBSTRATA-FACTOR THEORY OF READING WERE TESTED AT THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEVEL. TO ELABORATE ON THEORETICAL ASSERTIONS THAT READING ABILITY IS AN AUDIOVISUAL PROCESSING SKILL OF SYMBOLIC REASONING, THE SUBSTRATA FACTORS ACCOMPANYING DEVELOPMENT OF SPEED AND POWER OF READING WERE DEPICTED IN…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Theories, Reading, Reading Ability
