This illustrated reader is intended for use in a bilingual education setting on the elementary level. It is a children's story in St. Lawrence Island Siberian Yupik. (AM)

Noting that a study of semantics can inform teachers' understanding of the reading process, this paper describes seven basic types of meaning, illustrates how the interrelatedness of meanings within a semantic field may be shown, and discusses children's acquisition of semantic fields. It cites research into the development of semantic fields in…

To teach language processing is to teach students how to clarify information in material they are reading or discussing so that they are able to understand, evaluate, learn, store, recall, and use it. The first section of this guide, which is based on the use of the Formula Phonics method, discusses the teaching of language processing in terms of…

In a special developmental reading program designed to improve the reading skills of personnel employed by the Michigan Employment Security Commission, 40 vocational-development specialists were given six weeks of intensive reading instruction. Half of the class time was devoted to use of the PARADIGM lessons, which include activities for the…

The 21 essays in this collection consider the conditions under which reading is most effectively taught and learned. Topics deal with the ways in which a desire to read can be "caught" by children in their early years; the case for humanistic education; the need for changes in people's attitudes toward learning and teaching; ways of…

This report provides illustrations of practical applications of behavior modification to a variety of reading skills and is intended to be directly implemented in any classroom where reading is taught. The initial chapter is a brief orientation to behavior modification. It stresses that the trainer must answer the question of what behavior is to…

This book reviews the research literature relevant to the language experience approach to the teaching of reading, in which instruction is based upon the use of reading materials created by writing down children's spoken language. The first major section provides a narrative review of the research studies, organized, for the most part,…

This investigation attempted to determine the feasibility of using selected wordless picture books and non-narrated films to facilitate reading achievement. The participating students transcribed oral language and written language about various aspects of the wordless picture books, and non-narrated films were used as the bases for reading…

The studies reported in this document reflect the interests and concerns of reading and language arts teachers. Topics of the 10 studies were: a comparison of basal and individualized reading approaches to vocabulary acquisition of fourth graders, a comparison of a formal reading program and an informal general readiness program in kindergarten,…

The first section of this annotated bibliography is a selected review of research on the effects of volunteer tutoring programs. Reviews of 34 studies note the number, level, and type of students; type of tutors; area of U.S.; length, frequency, and duration of tutoring sessions; and achievement and other results of the tutoring programs.…

The major purpose of this investigation was to determine the relative efficacy of two methods of teaching reading in a college learning-improvement project. Seventy students from undergraduate psychology classes were divided into two instructional groups and one control group. It was hypothesized that subjects receiving modified paperback scanning…

This elementary reader is one of a series produced by the Alaska Native Language Center. It contains eleven stories, written in six dialects of the Tanaina language, and is designed to be used either as reading exercises by native speakers of Tanaina who are learning to read and write their language, or as lessons in Tanaina language and culture…

An account of the sessions of the twenty-seventh annual School Vision Forum and Reading Conference is included in this issue. Contents consist of the reports of the following sessions: A School Program Focused on Learning Rather Than Teaching; What Psychologists Can Contribute to Educators and Optometrists; Perceptual Clairvoyance; Empowering the…

The survey of SUC, Fredonia graduate students who were awarded advanced degrees from December 1969 to June 1974 was designed and conducted during the first semester of 1975, with focus on the educational, economic, and social traits of the graduate degree recipients. Opinions and attitudes about the college were solicited in the 74-item…

The evaluation of a reading teacher's effectiveness can best be achieved through the analysis of the process whereby the teacher develops interest and skills in the student. In determining the development of skills, the danger for researchers lies in assuming that achievement at the appropriate grade level is commensurate with achievement to the…