An overview of significant research studies, bibliographies, historical reviews, definitions, and commentaries on speed reading during the past 60 years is presented in this paper. The first part of the paper considers the concept and definitions of speed reading, and summarizes research from the l940s and 1950s--including discussion of eye…

To test how phonemic awareness influences reading, two experiments were conducted in the northwestern part of England in which twenty pairs of children possessing phonemic awareness (pa+) and lacking phonemic awareness (pa-) and matched for reading and chronological age were compared. In the first experiment, the subjects' ability to detect…

Discusses four methods of teaching reading to beginning readers and suggests where research can provide improvements in reading instruction. (RB)

Explores the ability to decode phrases and clauses, using children at three developmental levels to determine the effects of syntactic structure on the eye-voice span. (RB)

Presents and discusses findings from exploratory research on the effect of grouping and pace on reading acquisition. (RB)

Presents information regarding item construction and validation procedures for a content-referenced test intended to measure functional literacy. (RB)

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of matching modality aptitudes to classroom-based reading instruction. (RB)

Reports on the effects of an individualized reading program untilizing social studies content. (RB)

Presents the results of research indicating that it is possible to prescreen for predicting the optimum reading instructional approach for each child. (RB)

Concludes that the Associated Press and United Press International, the two major wire services for newspapers, are writing over the reading levels of junior high school students, and in doing so are destroying the effectiveness of the newspaper as a learning tool. (RB)

Dyslexia appears to be a meaningless label attached to children with reading problems; the label only leads to confusion rather than clarity. (JH)

Presents a list of task competencies that identifies the critical areas in which a reading specialist performs and provides a basis for judgments affecting the revision and initiation of graduate reading programs. (RB)

After reviewing the literature on college reading study-skills programs, concludes that the effectiveness of such programs is not established and many of them are not serving the designed purpose. (RB)

Investigated the use of an intermediate level of orthographic representation based upon the theoretical framework of transformational-generative grammar. (RB)

This paper provides a general description of schema-theoretic models of language comprehension and examines some extensions of such models to the study of reading. The goal of schema theory is to specify the interface between the reader and the text: to specify how the reader's knowledge interacts with and shapes the information on the page and to…