Describes a case study that explored the responses of four elementary school students actively involved in a literature-based reading program and how the teacher handled each child. (FL)

Reports on a study during which intermediate level students were exposed to three auditory backgrounds while reading (no music, classical music, and rock music), and their subsequent comprehension performance was measured. Concludes that the auditory background during reading may affect comprehension and that, for most students, rock music should…

Indicates that sentence combining and kernel identification training enabled sixth-grade students to comprehend longer, syntactically more complex sentences than control group students and to retain this ability over a six-week period. (HOD)

Examines the behavior of young children using barcode readers on reading texts that have a subtext of barcodes that activate a text-related voice program. (CRH)

Fifteen college students read passages from a cathode-ray tube as their eye movements were monitored in a study that investigated the size of the visual region within which they used visual information to distinguish among letters as they read. (HOD)

Summarizes some of the conclusions of certain chapters in the recently published "Handbook of Reading Research" in which research on instructional practice was synthesized and critiqued. (HOD)

Reports on a study that found an alternative cloze test format both valid and practical when compared to the conventional cloze format. (HOD)

Reports the results of a national survey that assessed the extent of minimum competency testing in reading in 1984 and the nature and extent of remedial programs based upon minimum competency testing in reading. (HOD)

Concludes that there are about 88,500 words in printed school English and that even systematic direct vocabulary instruction could not account for a significant proportion of all the words children actually learn, nor cover more than a modest proportion of the words they will encounter in school reading materials. (FL)

Reports that poor readers receiving language training obtained higher composite psycholinguistic scores on the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities than did a control group but that the pattern of psycholinguistic deficits was modified only in a group receiving specific training. (FL)

Presents an annotated bibliography of the 20 books found to be most popular in an annual survey of high school students' reading choices. (MM)

Proposes a model of rationalization, reification, and alienation to explain teachers' reliance on commercial materials during their reading instruction. (AEA)

Offers three explanations for why students lack the strategies for independent learning and follows that with five practical recommendations for improving study strategies. (HOD)

Reports on a study that examined the relationship between age and depth of response to poetry. (HOD)

Updates research findings concerning the way older adults are portrayed in several basal reading series. (FL)