This workbook for vocational high school students with reading difficulties contains instructional materials on twenty different vocational areas. The introductory note indicates that it was written with as low a readibility level as was practical to enable the students to read as much as possible without interruption. The content is in twenty…

The effect of using multiple-choice questions as review aids was investigated in four groups of college students. One group generated multiple-choice questions and used them as review aids, while the second group (the "yoked" group) used the questions generated by the first group. The third group used the experimenter's questions, and…

Motivational devices are useful in content-area reading because the content load of most content textbooks is so extensive that few if any students can be expected to understand all that an author intends to communicate. Many students who are inexperienced with the subject matter are unable to read the assignments independently. The recognition of…

This report describes several prominent reading comprehension programs for use in grades three through eight and discusses some research studies on these programs effectiveness in terms of student achievement. Three basal reading series are compared and descriptions are given of the DISTAR reading and language programs, objective-based reading…

Designed for use in a self-contained or open space classroom with students from pre-school through age 8, this book contains: reading readiness games for developing visual motor skills, visual discrimination, and perception, and for promoting mental development; basic reading skills games that teach word perception, phonetic analysis, structural…

An evaluation of the English Language Skills Acceleration Project, a program used in ninth-grade reading instruction in two high schools in the Marshall Islands, is provided in this report. Included are a description of the program and its activities, a discussion and comparison of test results, an evaluation of the behavioral objectives with…

This guide describes where specific skills are emphasized in the three reading texts (published by Economy, Ginn, and Holt) used in the primary grades in the Stoneham (Massachusetts) Public School System. The four major sections of the book are color-coded and include phonetic and structural analysis, vocabulary development, study skills, and…

The purposes of this study were to analyze the effects of instructional objectives as advance organizers prior to a reading assignment, determine if an advance organizer was more effectively presented with two learning modalities than with one; predict whether vocabulary or readability variables influenced comprehension; and determine whether…

This study devised guidelines and activities which parents can use to help their secondary school children improve their reading skills. The skill areas covered vocabulary development, word recognition, comprehension, and rate. Household teaching materials such as newspapers, magazines, telephone directories, junk mail, recipes, maps, catalogs,…

Twelve sixth grade classes were randomly assigned to two experimental groups and a control group. Experimental group one contained three classes which received 27 cloze lessons containing a systematic deletion count of every tenth word. Experimental group two contained three classes which received 27 cloze lessons with an every tenth word deletion…

In this study concerning individualized instruction, forth fifth graders who had been taught language arts by an individualized instructional system since first grade were the experimental group. The control groups were of the same socioeconomic status and racial composition but had been taught by traditional methods of instruction. To assess…

Second-grade pupils using the Ginn "Reading 360" or the McGraw-Hill "Programmed Reading" were compared in their reading and retelling of the story "King Alfred and the Cakes." Analysis, using the Reading Miscue Inventory, of the performance of 20 selected pupils indicated that those taught with "Programmed…

This investigation describes a field test of the materials entitled "Reading: An Educational Approach to Disability" (READ), which were developed to aid disabled readers in the beginning stages of learning to decode English print. The subjects were 15 Title I reading teachers working in small groups with 183 second-grade children. The…

Three groups of twenty-five children in fourth-grade reading classes were selected for this study. The subjects in class one received plastic tokens for desirable reading responses. The tokens were exchanged for release time from the classroom while reading instruction was in progress. The subjects in class two also received tokens for desirable…

The primary purpose of this study was to determine the value of familiarizing third grade teachers with specific reading skills and to describe the effects of their using the word-attack element of the Wisconsin Design for Reading Skills Development (WDRSD) as an instructional management system for improving the achievements in reading…