TO DETERMINE WHETHER ONE PROGRAMED VISUAL PRESENTATION MODE FACILITATES LEARNING BY CLARIFYING ASSUMED AMBIGUITIES IN VERBAL PRESENTATIONS AND WHETHER LEARNING TIME AFFECTS ACHIEVEMENT, FIVE CRITERIA WERE SPECIFIED--DRAWING, IDENTIFICATION (TRANSFER), TERMINOLOGY, COMPREHENSION, AND A COMPOSITE OF THESE. ALTHOUGH KNOWLEDGE PRE-TEST SCORES WERE…

THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF STUDIES DESIGNED TO INVESTIGATE THE SUITABILITY OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS WITH REGARD TO LEVELS OF DIFFICULTY IS REPORTED. THE STUDY ATTEMPTED TO DETERMINE WHETHER SOME RANGE OF DIFFICULTY MAXIMIZED THE AMOUNT OF INFORMATION STUDENTS GAIN AS A CONSEQUENCE OF READING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS. IN ORDER TO FORM 129 PAIRS…

The development, design, and purposes of these advanced proficiency tests are discussed, along with brief descriptions of their seven component parts--listening comprehension, speaking, reading, writing, applied linguistics, civilization and culture, and professional preparation. Some of the research inspired by the tests is identified. (AF)

The first volume of an elementary curriculum guide prepared by the Summer Workshop Reading Committee of the Rochester Public Schools in Rochester, Minnesota, applies to kindergarten through grade 4. It is divided into the prereading level, the beginning reading level, and the independence level. Grade designations under each level suggest the…

Participants in this conference represented France, Canada, the United States, Denmark, Japan, the United Kingdom, Austria, Norway, Germany, Sweden, Australia, Egypt, India, Israel, Ireland, and Brazil. Each of the 33 articles is printed in the language in which it was delivered (English except for two articles), and each is preceded by short…

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…

Radio commercials, used as supplementary materials in the English as a second language class, have the following advantages: (1) they correspond closely to everyday spoken English; (2) they are clear; (3) they are short enough to sustain student interest; (4) the many redundancies in the message enable even the slower student to understand; (5)…

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 book is based on the following assumptions: there are recognized skills of decoding that are essential to the reading act; these skills can be identified by the knowledgeable reading teacher; there is a level of reading at which every child can best be taught; and reading comprehension is comprehension of the lexical and syntactical elements…

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…