This study indicates that diagnosic teaching made no more difference than the instructor's simple knowledge of reading level to the reading achievement of college students. (MKM)

Explores research studies and effective reading programs that are based on the concept of first identifying effective reading teachers in terms of students' reading achievement and then considering instructional strategies that could account for the students' achievement. (JM)

A review of recent research suggests that evidence is lacking to support the conclusion that black dialect interference is a major contributor to black children's reading problems. (MKM)

Reviews the research that has led to a new formulation of the reading process and emphasizes the remarkable similarities that have been found inprocesses underlying reading and other cognitive capacities. Using the example of developments in woodcut book illustrations, he examines the relations between the process of reading and the history of…

Discusses a study in which analyses of a set of data relating to the reading achievement of 202 second-grade children showed that both IQ and the amount of reading activity had significant influence on reading ability (as measured by a standardized test). (JM)

Describes a study of the effect of deletion-produced sentence structures on reading comprehension, the occurrence of deletion-produced sentence structures in a selected grade seven social studies text, and the effect of syntactic information in sentence structures in relation to contentive information on reading comprehension. (JM)

Discusses a survey of college reading programs and offers suggestions for future planning concerning such reading programs. (JM)

Analyzes oral reading errors made by 20 children during their second year of formal reading instruction. (JM)

Describes a technique for measuring reliability (the consistency of decision making across repeated test administrations) and validity (the accuracy of decision making between administration of a reading test and administration of a criterion measure) and gives an example of its use. (JM)

Describes a study to determine the effects of visual perception training on beginning first-grade reading achievement with children diagnosed as being deficient in visual perceptual skills and potential reading problems. (JM)

Discusses questionnaire sent to superintendents of 1,000 school districts in the United States and includes a list showing the percentage of implementation of forty current practices in reading. (MB)

Examines research measuring 350 teacher's reading skills and points out that their reading skills may be deficient enough to warrant concern. (MB)

The article discusses current research and theory regarding neurological correlates of reading and various subtypes of reading disability, contrasts remedial efforts versus compensatory instruction, describes a diagnostic and instructional procedure, and provides a description of some instructional strategies for each subtype of reading…

Describes a study of the relationship between creative dramatics and reading comprehension in which those students who had performed a dramatic presentation of a story answered more inferential questions correctly than did those who had not engaged in the reenactment. (HTH)

Argues that the phoneme is a meaning-bearing unit--not a sound--and must be used in conjunction with semantic and syntactic information. (AEW)