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Download full textJoag-dev, Chitra; Steffensen, Margaret S. – 1980
The research studies reviewed in this report show that bicultural readers comprehend and remember materials that deal with their own culture better than materials that deal with an unfamiliar culture. Studies indicating that culturally specific story structures affect reading comprehension are also described. A number of reasons given for not…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Influences, Culture Conflict
Adams, Marilyn; Bruce, Bertram – 1980
Some of the aspects of the author/reader relationship that make communication possible are discussed in this paper. The paper begins by describing the most important components of that relationship. Next, through an analysis of two readings of one of Aesop's fables, it illustrates the way the author and the reader must depend on these components.…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education, Language Processing, Language Skills
Whaley, Jill Fitzgerald – 1979
A group of 50 third garde, 51 sixth grade, and 52 eleventh grade students participated in a study to examine the extent to which good readers at three grade levels expected structures in stories, the nature of their expectations, and developmental similarities and differences in their structural expectations. Materials for the study were prepared…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages, Discourse Analysis
Heffernan, Barbara K. – 1980
Results of the examination of teacher's manuals, grades one through four, that accompany a number of basal reading series used in schools in Staten Island, New York, indicated that although teacher's manuals included many phonic rules, none of the examined texts gave any utility or frequency data or cited any research studies to support the…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Higher Education, Phonics
Reynolds, Ralph E.; Ortony, Andrew – 1980
A total of 411 elementary school children seven to twelve years old read short prose passages and selected the most appropriate continuation sentence from four alternatives. The completion sentences were constructed so that the correct (target) response involved either an explicit (simile) or an implicit (metaphor) metaphorical comparison. It was…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education, Figurative Language
Flor, Romaine A. – 1980
Twenty-one studies of the effectiveness of various grouping plans for elementary reading instruction are reviewed in this paper. Following the review, the studies are summarized according to the grade level with which they dealt, and conclusions are drawn regarding the most effective grouping plans. Among the conclusions reported are: (1) no one…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Heterogeneous Grouping, Homogeneous Grouping
Dutka, Julia To – 1979
The relationship between anaphoric nominal substitution and reading comprehension was studied. The Diagnostic Reading Test and the Substitution Test were administered to 80 college juniors, seniors, and graduate students in teacher certification courses, and to 92 college freshmen seeking assistance in improving their reading skills. Positive and…
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Higher Education, Language Patterns
Dunn, Bruce R. – 1980
Two studies were conducted to find correlates of personality or cognitive style that were exemplified in differences in recall of semantic information from text. In both studies the texts were analyzed for the pattern of subordination, or hierarchy, of the semantic information that was contained in the passages using a method described by Meyer.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Electroencephalography, Higher Education, Personality Traits
Duffy, Gerald G.; McIntyre, Lonnie D. – 1980
Observational data on six first and second grade teachers were analyzed qualitatively to determine whether any of these teachers provided "assisted learning" during reading instruction. Assisted learning was defined as the teacher's intentional efforts to structure the students' learning experiences so that they could learn more easily.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Research, Observation, Primary Education
Wescott, Alice Legenza; Knafle, June D. – 1979
The errors on cloze tests completed by 22 German adults who spoke English and 40 American college students were analyzed to determine whether predictable error patterns occurred. The results indicated predictable error patterns at the independent, instructional, and frustration reading levels for all the adults. The error profiles of the two…
Descriptors: Adults, Cloze Procedure, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
GRANT, EUGENE B.; HALL, MARCIA – 1967
A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE RELEVANT TO THE PROBLEM OF PURPOSEFUL READING AND COMPREHENSION REVEALS THE NEED TO HELP CHILDREN ESTABLISH A MENTAL SET OR PURPOSEFUL ATTITUDE PRIOR TO READING. TO EVALUATE A THOUGHT-DIRECTING QUESTION AS A PURPOSE PRIOR TO READING AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF DIFFICULTY, 279 SIXTH GRADERS FROM THREE SCHOOLS IN HAMMOND,…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Motivation, Reading Centers, Reading Comprehension
LAFFEY, JAMES L. – 1967
DESCRIPTIVE ABSTRACTS OF ESPECIALLY USEFUL DOCUMENTS RELATED TO READING RESEARCH AND PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1957 AND 1966 ARE PRESENTED. ARTICLES WHICH REVIEWED RESEARCH, ANALYZED TOPICS IN READING, OR PROVIDED FAIRLY EXTENSIVE LISTS OF REFERENCES ARE INCLUDED. THE PUBLICATION PRESENTS 259 ENTRIES ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY BY YEAR AND CONTAINS AN AUTHOR…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Annotated Bibliographies, College Students, Elementary Education
STAUFFER, RUSSELL G. – 1966
WORD COUNTS WERE MADE TO COMPARE THE VOCABULARIES IN READING, HEALTH, SCIENCE, AND ARITHMETIC TEXTBOOKS FOR GRADES ONE TO THREE. COUNTS WERE MADE IN SEVEN DIFFERENT BASIC READING SERIES AND IN THREE DIFFERENT SERIES IN EACH OF THE THREE CONTENT AREAS. THE LIMITATIONS OF THE WORD COUNTS ARE SPECIFIED. FREQUENCY OF OCCURRENCE WAS USED TO ANALYZE THE…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Books, Health Materials, Primary Education
BIEMILLER, ANDREW – 1966
METHODS TO BE USED FOR EVALUATING A NEW FIRST-GRADE CURRICULUM IN READING AND WRITING WERE PRESENTED. THE CURRICULUM WAS DEVELOPED AS PART OF "PROJECT LITERACY," A COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM IN AREAS OF EDUCATION RELEVANT TO THE ACQUISITION OF LITERACY SKILLS. INTERRELATED TOPICS OF THE CURRICULUM INCLUDED READING (BOOKS, MAGAZINES,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Grade 1, Literacy
BOND, GUY L.; DYKSTRA, ROBERT – 1964
A 1964 SUMMER CONFERENCE WAS HELD TO INFORM PROJECT DIRECTORS OF INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH CENTERS ABOUT INDEPENDENT RESEARCH PROJECTS IN FIRST-GRADE READING INSTRUCTION. IT WAS DESIGNED TO PRODUCE AWARENESS OF THE PROJECTS, TO GAIN AGREEMENT AND UNIFORMITY IN RESEARCH EFFORTS, TO APPRAISE RESEARCH DESIGNS, AND TO EXPLORE FURTHER PARTICIPATION IN…
Descriptors: Conferences, Cooperative Programs, Grade 1, Reading Instruction
