Author calls for well-controlled, longitudinal studies of several issues needing further investigation in beginning reading. (MB)

Purpose of the study was to explore the relationship between a subject's understanding of conjunctions and his reading comprehension; the difference in the difficulty of various conjunctions, and the relationship between understanding conjunctions and the demographic variables of socio-economic level, sex and intelligence. (RB)

Results show that peer tutoring (versus adult tutoring) and tokens for reading (versus tokens for attendance) did substantially and significantly improve the rate at which the children learned to read. (Authors)

A research strategy for educational engineering is outlined which includes the transformation of scientific knowledge into tables of useful measures. The applications of such a process are fully discussed. (PR)

Examines some historical facts surrounding Thorndike's 1917 article, Reading as Reasoning: A Study of Mistakes in Paragraph Reading," (republished in Reading Research Quarterly, 1971, 6, 425-48), in an attempt to put the article in its proper perspective both as a research study and as a contribution to the psychology of reading. (VJ)

Assesses the effects of different learning conditions on perceptual span development. Notes the superiority of the contingency-plus-attention group in the training situation but the better transfer of the attention-only group to a standard reading situation. Graphs and bibliography. (RW)

None of the studies on reading seem to have considered the possibility that all children should not be expected to read well. Reading should be taught as are other specific skills, other available resources being used to ensure that children are not excluded from education. (DM)