To determine the effectiveness of one method of rate training in grades two, four, six, and eight, four classes of pupils in each of the four grades studied were assigned randomly to experimental or control treatments: two classes were given 20 lessons each of rate training, one control class was given instruction emphasizing comprehension, and…

This study was concerned with whether or not supplementary work in the subskill areas of comprehension would increase the overall comprehension level of pupils more than supplementary work with vocabulary development exercise. Sixth-six fourth grade pupils in a middle-class suburban community in central New Jersey were selected as subjects. A…

To determine the effect on simultaneous aural-visual training on the silent reading ability of 72 educationally disadvantaged black college freshmen, three different means of training were investigated. One experimental group (aural-visual) had a simultaneous reading-listening type of training via individual listening headsets with the visual…

The references listed in this annotated bibliography are organized into three major categories: (1) The Process of Critical Reading, (2) Research on Critical Reading, and (3) The Teaching of Critical Reading. The first category includes standard texts, theory-oriented volumes, a few books directed at the popular market, periodical articles, and…

The Right to Read program was begun as a result of three elements which came together in July 1971: (1) concern with Mamaroneck's total reading program induced by studies of group test results; (2) a mandate which gave an additional 110 minutes weekly to be devoted by every teacher to the reading program; and (3) an administrative workshop which…

To assess the effect of pattern practice (a method commonly associated with foreign language teaching) on reading achievement, attitudes toward reading, and oral language responses, fifth graders from a Philadelphia elementary school were divided into two groups, one of which received pattern practice through a series of forty lessons. It was…

This reader is designed to accompany the fifth text in the Orientation in American English series. It is intended to provide advanced practice in reading comprehension as well as concentrated practice in composition techniques and writing. At the same time it supports and reinforces concepts and structures introduced in the text. The reader may be…

General guidelines for teaching reading in content area classrooms and specific suggestions for a number of content areas are included. The general guidelines are intended to familiarize personnel with critical areas in which they can help in developing reading skills. They suggest that teachers be masters of content subject matter, be aware of…

Three hypotheses gave direction to this study conducted with a stratified random sample of fourth grade students. The chief purpose was exploration of the relationship between a subject's understanding of conjunctions and his reading comprehension. Another purpose was to explore the difference in the difficulty of various conjunctions. The third…

The importance of word analysis skills to reading ability is discussed, and methodologies for teaching such skills are examined. It is stated that a child cannot become proficient in reading if he does not master the skill of associating printed letter symbols with the sounds they represent. Instructional procedures which augment the alphabet with…

An outline is presented for a secondary level course in reading designed for the Dade County, Florida, public schools. The course is primarily designed to teach students how to select reading materials at their reading levels, determine their reading rates, and adapt reading pace to various kinds of materials depending on the kind of information…

This paper discusses the relationship between cloze demands and reading comprehension and describes a cloze program used in a third-grade classroom. A series of exercises, including word attack, sentence completion, and vocabulary-development tasks, were given regularly by teachers to the students in their third-grade classrooms. Included in the…

This report describes the evaluation plan for the 1973-74 small-scale field test of the Comprehension element of the Wisconsin Design for Reading Skill Development and presents results for the eight field test objectives investigated. These objectives, the first three grouped under the rubric product usability and the next five grouped under…

Interrelationships between productive oral proficiency in black dialect and in standard English and reading comprehension of passages differing in dialect and content were investigated in a sample of 98 sixth-grade black students. Results indicated that students were better readers as their oral patterns of speech were more representative of…

The effects of interest level on comprehension and word-recognition instructional levels were investigated in samples of fifth- and sixth-grade pupils. The effects of sex, ability, interest, and type of skill on performance on informal reading inventories were tested using a four-factor analysis of variance; each grade level was examined…