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Download full textRisner, Gregory P.; And Others – 1994
A study examined the levels of comprehension generated by questions in story-related and story-retell activities in the Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) program. A sample of 500 questions from CIRC materials for grades 4, 5, and 6 were classified. Results indicated that the majority of story-related and story-retell questions…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Intermediate Grades, Language Arts, Questioning Techniques
Garing, Kelli; And Others – 1992
This resource packet presents information on youth literacy in three main sections. The first section presents statistics on literacy; facts about literacy; reading in Indiana middle, junior, and senior high schools; and family reading. The packet's second section contains a bibliography and resources, offering a reading and literacy bibliography,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Elementary Secondary Education, Literacy, Reading Attitudes
Jones, Miles R. – 1986
This paper reviews the literature on the effects of training with time compressed speech (TCS) plus text on reading speed, vocabulary, and comprehension. The first section of the paper presents an introduction and outline of the findings. The second section summarizes and critiques 15 studies on training with TCS published from 1954 to 1985. The…
Descriptors: Listening Skills, Literature Reviews, Reading Comprehension, Reading Rate
Winsor, Pamela; And Others – 1993
A study reviewed and evaluated the structural analysis instruction (the use of word parts to help determine the meaning and pronunciation of words) and practice in the teachers' manuals and student workbooks of six published basal reading programs. For the most part, suggestions for instruction and practice seemed reasonable, but there were…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Prefixes (Grammar), Reading Instruction
Sparks, Elizabeth E. – 1993
The background, challenge, opportunity, and excitement of hermeneutics can be explored in three signposts of a hermeneutic turn in a doctoral research proposal: from being gifted to gifted reading, from method to interpretation, and from metacognition to the hermeneutic circle. A change in the research site of a study of the metacognitive…
Descriptors: Gifted, Hermeneutics, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools
Department of Defense Education Activity, Arlington, VA. – 1998
A study examined the effectiveness of Reading Recovery programs at 36 Department of Defense Schools (DoDDS). Annually, approximately 500 "below grade level" students are given the opportunity to become independent readers through this program. Major findings are: (1) Reading Recovery students significantly outperformed students not in…
Descriptors: Dependents Schools, Early Intervention, Instructional Effectiveness, Primary Education
Blachman, Benita A. – 1991
As educators continue to debate the value of phonic versus meaning-based approaches to reading, a significant number of children continue to fail to learn to read. One of the fundamental tasks facing the beginning reader is to develop the realization that speech can be segmented and that these segmented units can be represented by printed forms. A…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Usen, Melissa Ivy – 1999
Reading is an important activity for all children to be able to do regardless of ability. Many children in classrooms around the country struggle with reading and need some extra support and attention. Determining student attitudes can help the teacher to provide the necessary services to those that need help to improve their reading. Students in…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Primary Education, Reading Attitudes, Reading Motivation
Johnson, Donna; Kaim, Carol; Trotter, Honor; Zbinden, Jennifer – 1998
An action research project described a program for improving reading skills and comprehension through the use of parental involvement. The targeted population consisted of primary students located at four different sites in Northern Illinois. The problem of low reading achievement was documented through data revealing a large number of students…
Descriptors: Action Research, Parent Participation, Primary Education, Reading Achievement
Ruddell, Martha Rapp-Haggard – 1990
Reading response groups are an outgrowth of theories which suggest that: (1) meaning derived from text is highly individualized and personal, and (2) reader understanding is deepened through interactions among peers. A study examined the non-participation in one reading response group composed of four high-achieving adult readers who were…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Case Studies, Group Dynamics, Higher Education
Sugzda, Diane – 1992
A study compared two groups of children attending two urban elementary schools who were unready for first grade at the conclusion of kindergarten. One group of 23 students was retained in kindergarten while the other group of 117 was promoted to the first grade. The California Test of Basic Skills was used to measure the reading ability of both…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade Repetition, Grade 1, Kindergarten
Gill, Martin – Edinburgh Working Papers in Linguistics, 1992
A notable feature of current approaches to reading (in first or second language) is a preoccupation with the internal "causes" of comprehension, regarded as a terminal state of the cognitive system. Yet by allowing only for a private encounter between reader and text, the cognitive approach lacks terms to give more than a contingent…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
Dunning, David B. – 1992
A study investigated whether classroom reading instruction that focuses students' attention on story characters' motives and feelings improves their narrative comprehension. The subjects for this study were 48 third-grade students from 3 different classrooms in the same school. Two different treatments were used: the External Events (control)…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Inferences, Instructional Effectiveness, Narration
McEneaney, John E. – 1994
A study compared a parallel distributed processing (PDP) model with a more traditional symbolic information processing model that accounts for early reading acquisition by human subjects. Two experimental paradigms were simulated. In one paradigm (a "savings" paradigm) subjects were divided into two groups and trained with two sets of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
Koals, Marie B. – 1993
A study identified a list of trade books that educators selected for use in their own classrooms and a list of factors that they considered to be the most important when selecting those books. Subjects, 486 educators who taught in grades 4, 5, or 6 in 45 public school districts and 15 private schools in southeastern Pennsylvania, identified two…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Reading Instruction, Reading Interests, Reading Material Selection
