The child's contribution to the reading experience, that is, his personal involvement, is discussed in relation to the responsibility of the reading teacher. (DB)

Research at the Chicago Institute focused on the social competence of learning disabled (LD) children, including investigation of communicative competence (e.g., adapting one's style to listeners, conversational skills), reading abilities (oral reading and comprehension), causal attributions of success and failure, and the immediate impression LD…

Sixty children, prereaders and readers aged 4-6 years, matched color, shape, and letter features in pairs of cartoons. Older children and those able to read performed better, confirming the hypothesis that the development of some visual skills is a by-product of learning to read. (Author/SJL)

Provides research findings that paint a bleak picture of the functional reading competence of aged persons. Supports previous research indicating that functional reading competence decreases with age. (JT)

A reprint of chapter 28 from the authors' book, "K-6: Best Years of Their Lives?" published in 1979 by the (Australian) Primary English Teaching Association, which presents evidence that contradicts reports of a decline in Australian reading standards. (DD)

Investigates whether children can use partial information to learn the pronunciations of Chinese characters. Children learned to pronounce more regular characters, which contain full information about pronunciation, and more tone-different and onset-different characters, which contain partial information about pronunciation, than characters with…

Compared selected methods of assessing the structure of tests with dichotomous items using real data from a 62-item test of reading ability and computer-generated data for multiple unidimensional and multidimensional cases. All methods performed reasonably well over a relatively wide range of conditions. (SLD)

Notes that performative literacy can be identified as an enabling knowledge-- knowledge that enables readers to activate and use all the other forms of knowledge that are required for the exercise of anything like a critical or disciplined literacy. Identifies seven traits as constitutive of performative literacy, each one associated with actions…

Predictions from M. C. Wittrock's model of generative teaching about the effects of reader generation of summaries and analogies on the learning of 50 paragraphs of text were studied. Fifty-seven undergraduates--assigned to three treatment groups comprised of different generative tasks--had to use learning material from a text. (SLD)

Relates anecdotes and vignettes that demonstrate the role of relationships in learning to read. Makes the point that learning to read, and learning to love reading, owe a great deal to the nature of the human relationships that occur around and through books. (SR)

This study of 65 children (ages 10-13) with dyslexia found no discrete subgroups. Variability in performance on reading tasks was quite similar for the dyslexic and reading age-control groups. A few children with dyslexia resembled phonological dyslexics and surface dyslexics, but these subjects were still part of a continuum. (Author/JDD)