This textbook, the first in a series of six, is designed to give the beginning student practice in reading Spanish as adapted to Mexican linguistics. It makes use of comic strips with few words and paragraphs describing pictures. Subjects included in the 37 sections include the park, the zoo, a birthday celebration, dreams, and school. (Author/SK)

This textbook, the second in a series of six, is designed to give the beginning student practice in reading Spanish. It contains some 30 sections with passages of increasing degrees of difficulty. Colored illustrations are included. Subjects include animals, children's games, a pirate's flag, and astronauts. (SK)

This textbook, the third in a series of six, is designed to give the intermediate elementary school student continued practice in reading Spanish. It contains some 30 sections with passages of increasing degrees of difficulty. Colored illustrations are included. The book introduces simple literary excerpts, short poems, and narratives from…

This textbook, the fourth in a series of six, is designed to give the intermediate elementary school student continued practice in reading Spanish. It contains some 30 sections with passages of increasing degrees of difficulty. Colored illustrations are included. In this volume, Quetzalcoatl, god of the winds, conducts a group of children to…

This textbook, the sixth in a series of six, is designed to give the advanced elementary school student continued practice in reading Spanish. It contains some 30 sections with passages of increasing degrees of difficulty. Illustrations are included. The text includes selections from authors such as Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Melville, Santos…

A study was conducted to investigate whether: (1) children's preferences for activities vary as a function of the cultural stereotypes to which they are exposed; (2) children's perception of appropriate activities for females and males vary as a function of the cultural stereotypes to which they are exposed; and (3) the degree of differences…

This study developed procedures for teachers to use in ranking the reading difficulty level of student-authored materials in the primary grades. Two procedures were developed: the word procedure for assessment of reading difficulty levels of vocabulary, and the two-four procedure for assessing reading difficulty level of sentence structure.…

Discusses the use of predictable literature as a method of helping beginning or slower readers become more proficient readers. Offers a list of predictable literature and ideas for classroom activities to accompany each story and ways to record children's behavior as they read. (JC)

Determines some reasons that children may ignore detected inconsistencies in judging story adequacy. Results indicate that factors specific to a story and the construction of its internal representation, contribute to the judging and monitoring performance of children. (RJC)

Discusses how beginning readers respond to familiar and unfamiliar stories. States that children begin as inventive readers, using different strategies--such as naming, counting, or structuring--to "read" the text. (MM)

Describes the production of fiction (writing and recording) for children who are blind, visually impaired, or otherwise physically unable to read printed material. Character development, vocabulary selection, and volunteer readers are noted. Sample titles of children's literature suitable for adaptation to the talking book format are included.…

Parents engaged in a book reading task with their preschool child. The extent to which parents' teaching of children becomes less directive as a function of children's age and communicative status and the relationship between parents' interaction styles and children's verbal intelligence quotient was studied. (DWH)

Suggests that self-reported story climax imagery is related to deeper levels of processing on reading comprehension measures that do not rely disproportionately on verbal reasoning processes. (AEA)

This study examined the effectiveness of elements by the thematic-fantasy play training paradigm in facilitating story recall of 192 disadvantaged kindergartners and first graders. Results include: adult tuition did not facilitate story recall; and fantasy enactment affected immediate but not maintained story recall. (BS)

Six mentally retarded children were read to individually by an adult reader over a period of six weeks. Verbal interaction between the adult and each child was examined under two story presentation procedures. (MS)