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Spurlin, Joni E.; And Others – 1980
The effectiveness of different frequencies of summarization during studying and processing prose passages was compared. The 48 college students in the study were equally divided into a control group (normal study techniques), a frequent summarization group that created four noncumulative summaries at equally spaced intervals throughout the passage…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading
Scofield, Sandra J. – 1980
Drawing from research and from classroom experiences, this paper suggests five strategies for use by reading teachers in helping low-achieving students write responses to comprehension questions. The strategies call for the teacher to: (1) analyze questions carefully and sequence them according to difficulty; (2) give students steps to follow in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Low Achievement, Questioning Techniques, Reading Comprehension
Rauch, Margaret – 1980
The effectiveness of previewing versus discourse analysis as methods of reading instruction was tested. Previewing (supported by schema theory) was based on the premise that helping students relate their knowledge to the content of a reading selection would facilitate comprehension. Discourse analysis (based on research on text structures)…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education
Valentino, Beth Anne M. – 1978
A study was undertaken (1) to determine if a relationship existed between preadolescents' levels of reading comprehension as defined by T. C. Barrett's Taxonomy of Reading Comprehension and their levels of moral development according to Lawrence Kohlberg's stage sequence and (2) to discover if females demonstrated higher levels of reading…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages, Moral Development
Alderson, Charles; And Others – 1977
Mexican university students enrolled in a general English course were administered a battery of tests including a reading comprehension test based on a Spanish text, one based on an English text, and the TEAL test battery of English language proficiency for adult students. Half the students were given an easy English text and a difficult Spanish…
Descriptors: College Students, Correlation, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
Sallee, Jack – 1979
This resource unit, appropriate for advanced students of French as a second language or for native speakers of French in a bilingual context, has two main topics: (1) the city of New Orleans, and (2) formation and use of the present participle. The grammatical explanations, readings, and exercises are completely in French. The readings give the…
Descriptors: Cultural Activities, French, Grammar, Learning Modules
Forsyth, Robert – 1976
The readability level of passages from three subtests of the Iowa Tests of Educational Development (ITED), Forms X-6 and Y-6, were compared with the readability level of passages selected from the Des Moines Resister, Reader's Digest, Time, Newsweek, Saturday Review, and 18 high school textbooks from the fields of social studies, science, and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Content Area Reading, Literature, Natural Sciences
Bell, Michael S.; Gagne, Ellen D. – 1979
The effects of verbal analogies and quantitative and verbal aptitudes on comprehension and memory of a technical text were studied. In a cued recall test, the presence of an analogy decreased the performance of high quantitative aptitude university students and tended to increase the performance of low quantitative aptitude students. In a…
Descriptors: Analogy, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cognitive Style, Concept Formation
Trabasso, Tom – 1980
This report contains brief descriptions of 37 published and unpublished works and ongoing studies produced by a project designed to investigate the ways in which both children and adults comprehend and remember connected discourse. Among the topics of the published works, which include articles, book chapters, and a book, are the following: story…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
COATES, ROBERT H., ED. – 1967
STEPS IN TEACHING EACH LESSON IN OPERATION ALPHABET 2, A SERIES OF WORKBOOKS FOR ADULTS LEARNING TO READ AND WRITE, ARE OUTLINE--STIMULATING INTEREST, NEW WORDS, SILENT READING, QUESTIONING FOR COMPREHENSION, REEXAMINATION OF NEW WORDS, READING EXERCISES, WRITING PRACTICE, AND PARAGRAPH WRITING. LESSON PLANS FOR BOTH VOLUMES ARE INCLUDED. THIS…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Instructional Materials, Paragraph Composition, Reading Comprehension
HANSON, JOSEPH T. – 1967
SEX DIFFERENCES IN READING ACHIEVEMENT AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PHONOVISUAL METHOD OF READING INSTRUCTION IN GRADES 1 TO 3 WHEN USED AS A SUPPLEMENT TO THE STATE-ADOPTED CO-BASAL READING SERIES WERE STUDIED IN TWO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN PASADENA, CALIFORNIA. SUBJECTS IN THE EXPERIMENTAL SCHOOL (60 IN GRADE 1, 68 IN GRADE 2, 54 IN GRADE 3) WERE…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Instructional Materials, Primary Education, Reading Achievement
BICKLEY, A. C.; WEAVER, WENDELL W. – 1967
SOURCES OF INFORMATION FOR RESPONSES TO MULTIPLE-CHOICE ITEMS ON READING COMPREHENSION TESTS AND THE EFFECTS OF CONTENT WORDS AND FUNCTION WORDS IN SUPPLYING INFORMATION FOR THE CORRECT COMPLETION OF MULTIPLE-CHOICE ITEMS WERE STUDIED IN AN EXPERIMENT AT CAMPBELL COLLEGE. PARAGRAPHS WITH ACCOMPANYING MULTIPLE-CHOICE ITEMS SAMPLED FROM READING…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Language Patterns, Language Research
RUDDELL, ROBERT B. – 1965
THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY WAS TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECT UPON WORD RECOGNITION AND READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS OF FOUR READING PROGRAMS. THESE PROGRAMS VARIED IN (1) THE DEGREE OF REGULARITY OF GRAPHEME-PHONEME CORRESPONDENCES PROGRAMED INTO THE VOCABULARY PRESENTED AND (2) THE EMPHASIS ON LANGUAGE STRUCTURE AS RELATED TO MEANING. FOUR…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Graphemes, Language Patterns, Linguistics
GARDNER, CHARLES – 1965
THE PROBLEM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE READING LEVEL OF A CHILD WHO HAS A SEVERE READING PROBLEM CAN BE RAISED BY USING AN INSTRUCTIONAL SYSTEM CALLED "READING HABILITATION." THIS IS A SYSTEM OF UNISON READING IN WHICH THE STUDENT AND INSTRUCTOR READ ALOUD SIMULTANEOUSLY AT A RAPID RATE. THE METHOD IS AIMED AT…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Phonics, Reading, Reading Ability
Blanchard, Jay S.; And Others – 1980
The existence of a transfer effect between single-word decoding skill and contextual literal and inferential comprehension performance was investigated using sixth grade students classified as poor and very poor readers. Two training groups and a control group, each composed of 15 poor and 15 very poor readers, were used in the study. One group…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension
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