Data on 17 first grade teachers and 305 students in 45 reading groups were used to examine the relationships between teacher behaviors, their classification of their students, and student reading achievement. The teachers were asked to rank their students on six characteristics: confidence, obedience, extroversion, good seatwork habits, teacher…

The intent of this evaluation report is to provide information obtained from a study of the Success in Reading and Writing Program pilot project initiated in the Washington, D. C. public schools in 1978-79. The first chapter of the report describes the Success in Reading and Writing Program, its goals and objectives, and the pilot project; states…

Selections from the last three basal reading series produced by the Houghton Mifflin Company were examined to determine what improvements were made. One of the fundamental changes occurring in the 1971 revision ("Readers") was the replacement of grade designations with numerical levels that provided a better match between student and…

A study was undertaken to create and validate a diagnostic, task-based Informal Reading Readiness Inventory (IRRI). IRRI subtests were created to reflect four areas found to be important in reading readiness: awareness of self and media, language experience, reasoning, and phonics. Prereading curriculum components formed the basis for test item…

TO UNCOVER BASIC PERCEPTUAL AND PERSONALITY DIFFERENCES POSSIBLY RESPONSIBLE FOR DIFFERENCES IN READING ACHIEVEMENT, TWO STRATIFIED SAMPLES OF 60 ABOVE- AND BELOW-AVERAGE READERS WERE SELECTED FROM THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF 5,612 CHILDREN COMPLETING FIRST GRADE IN EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA. THE GROUPS WERE MATCHED ACCORDING TO SEX, SCHOOL, GROUP…

A STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE FREQUENCY OF READING DISABILITY CASES COULD BE MARKEDLY DECREASED (A) BY A CAREFUL DIAGNOSIS OF THE CHILD'S READING READINESS AND GENERAL SCHOOL READINESS AND (B) BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN APPROPRIATE TEACHING SITUATION FOR THOSE CHILDREN WHOSE DIAGNOSIS INDICATED POTENTIAL READING AND WRITING…

AN INVESTIGATION OF THE ACHIEVEMENT IN BASAL READING SKILLS BY MENTALLY HANDICAPPED, INTELLECTUALLY NORMAL, AND SUPERIOR PUPILS TAUGHT WITH THE SCOTT, FORESMAN NEW BASIC READERS PROGRAM AT READING INSTRUCTIONAL LEVELS 2, 3, 4, AND 5 IS REPORTED. SPECIFIC RESEARCH OBJECTIVES WERE--(1) TO IDENTIFY SEQUENCES AMONG BASAL READING SKILLS IN FIVE…

A STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VISUAL AND AUDITORY SINGULAR MODAL RESPONSES AND MODAL SHIFTING BEHAVIOR TO READING ACHIEVEMENT WITH CONTROL FOR SUCH VARIABLES AS INTELLIGENCE, AGE, SEX, AND SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS. SUBJECTS WERE 120 SECOND, FOURTH, AND SIXTH GRADERS FROM PEORIA, ILLINOIS, PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.…

TWO STUDIES WERE CONDUCTED TO EXPLORE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE AUDITORY SKILLS OF SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS AND READING ACHIEVEMENT. THE EFFECT OF A DEVELOPMENTAL AUDITORY TRAINING PROGRAM ON READING ACHIEVEMENT AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF DIFFERENT EVALUATIVE PROCEDURES FOR AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL SKILLS WERE ALSO TESTED. SIXTY-FOUR…

FOUR HYPOTHESES WERE INVESTIGATED IN A STUDY DESIGNED TO DISCOVER WHETHER READING PATTERNS AND SUCCESS DURING CHILDREN'S PRIMARY YEARS COULD BE ANTICIPATED FROM EMOTIONAL CLASSIFICATIONS DETERMINED DURING THEIR PRESCHOOL YEARS. IT WAS HYPOTHESIZED THAT CHILDREN WITH EMOTIONAL DIFFICULTIES DURING PRESCHOOL YEARS WOULD HAVE MORE DIFFICULTY LEARNING…

DATA SECURED FROM SECOND GRADERS INVOLVED IN A COMPARISON OF THE USE OF THE INITIAL TEACHING ALPHABET (ITA) AND OF TRADITIONAL ORTHOGRAPHY WHILE IN THE FIRST GRADE ARE REPORTED. IN THE SECOND GRADE, 132 EXPERIMENTAL PUPILS TAUGHT BY ITA AND 123 CONTROL PUPILS TAUGHT WITH TRADITIONAL ORTHOGRAPHY WERE AVAILABLE FOR STUDY. A COMPARISON WAS MADE BY…

THE CLOZE PROCEDURE WAS USED TO INVESTIGATE THE PREDICTABILITY OF LANGUAGE MATERIALS AND TO EXAMINE THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE WRITTEN PRODUCTION OF LANGUAGE AND READING TO STRUCTURAL AND LEXICAL CONSTRUCTS. FIFTY-SIX SOPHOMORES RANDOMLY SELECTED FROM 152 STUDENTS ENROLLED IN INTRODUCTORY PSYCHOLOGY COURSES AT CAMPBELL COLLEGE WERE RANDOMLY ASSIGNED…

IN AN EFFORT TO CLARIFY THE QUESTION OF THE VALUE OF ABILITY GROUPING, THE POSSIBLE INFLUENCE OF LEVEL OF READING GROUP PLACEMENT ON PRIMARY STUDENTS ENJOYMENT OF READING AND SELF-PERCEPTION AS READERS WAS STUDIED IN THREE RANDOMLY-SELECTED FIRST-, SECOND-, AND THIRD-GRADE CLASSROOMS IN A CORVALLIS, OREGON, SCHOOL LOCATED IN A LOWER-MIDDLE TO…

THE EFFECTS WHICH CERTAIN CORRESPONDENCES BETWEEN SPELLING AND SOUND HAVE ON READING WERE ASSESSED. THE 54 SUBJECTS WERE DRAWN IN EQUAL NUMBERS FROM GRADES 2, 3, AND 4. TO COMPARE THE RESPONSE LATENCIES AND THE ERRORS MADE WHEN READING THREE INTERMIXED LISTS OF 12 WORDS EACH, THE CHILDREN WERE ASKED TO READ ALOUD EACH WORD AS IT WAS PRESENTED ON…

THIS STUDY INVESTIGATED THE EFFECTIVENESS OF BEGINNING THE TEACHING OF READING IN KINDERGARTEN. THE LONGITUDINAL EFFECTS AS WELL AS THE INITIAL RESULTS WERE EXAMINED. THE PROGRESS OF THE CHILDREN IN THE STUDY WAS FOLLOWED FROM THE KINDERGARTEN THROUGH THE FIFTH GRADE. THE SAMPLE CONSISTED OF 4,000 KINDERGARTEN PUPILS RANDOMLY ASSIGNED BY THE…