Twenty-eight abstracts of theses research studies in the area of reading conducted between 1957 and 1967 at Cardinal Stritch College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, are presented. The studies include research at both the elementary and secondary levels involving methods, materials, reading skills, attitudes, and total programs. Research studies on…

Four researchers discussed their studies of oral reading miscues within a round-table format. After each participant's description of the specific concerns and procedures of his study, the following topics were discussed: description and analysis of the miscue, correction strategy, relationship of the child's language to the language of the…

A review of research on factors involved in general reading ability and reading in the content areas is presented. In the primary grades, reading comprehension appears to be a specific factor dependent on instructional conditions. During the intermediate grades, common factors emerge and tend to integrate at a more central response level and…

The relationship between visual and auditory performance and reading achievement came under scrutiny in this study. It was thought that both poor and average readers would perform better on auditory tasks than on visual ones but that this discrepancy would be considerably greater for the poor or retarded reader. Seventy-two children from grades 1,…

A high versus low rationale approach in teaching reading to grade-7 students was tested. The high rationale included using a traditional basal series approach that emphasized the ability to identify "the reasons why of how to read" through rules or formulas. The low rationale approach deemphasized rules and formulas except as the need…

An investigation was conducted to determine whether differing schedules of reading practice had a significant effect on the reading achievement of male college students enrolled in a developmental reading course. Subjects were 80 male students at Central State College, Edmond, Oklahoma. Pretest and post-test results were compared. The Nelson-Denny…

A study of the effects on responses to a word association task of varying the modality of the input of the stimulus word was used as a means of doing step-wise analysis of word association data. Subjects were 70 males and 70 females randomly selected from adult basic education classes in the Atlanta, Georgia, area and assigned to one of the…

A brief description is given of the training program at a delinquent youth residential center for boys in Philadelphia. The main objective of the center's program was to improve the boys' basic skills in reading. Emphasis was on individualized learning through constant diagnostic instruction. The second part of this report explains in detail some…

All of the studies reported in A. Sterl Artley's Trends and Practices in Secondary School Reading: A Report on Recent Research are cited and abstracted in this companion bibliography to that monograph. The entries are classified into the same categories used in the monograph: (1) Status of Reading Achievement, (2) Factors Related to Continued…

This book presents the highlights of the twenty-second annual reading conference at Lehigh University which covered a multitude of topics related to practices of classroom reading instruction. The contents include "Creativity in Teaching Reading,""A Consumers' Report on Learning to Read,""Open Education: What Is It?""Primary Reading--What Is…

The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a significant difference in the readability of three collections of reading textbooks adopted for use in California for four student groups--culturally disadvantaged, slow, average, and fast. The Botel readability formula was applied to nine, 100-word samples taken from a total of twenty-four…

The building of a repertoire of written words recognized on sight is an important prerequisite for complex reading skills. Coordination of certain sense modalities, when present in the learning of a new written word, increases the probability that this word will be retained over a period of time. This coordination involves specific intersensory…

This paper traces the development of the seven-volume Florida Catalog of Performance Objectives for Reading and Writing, kindergarten through grade twelve, and describes the nature, purposes, and use of the finished product. The project was funded by the Florida Education Department, and the researchers built on earlier catalogs developed in…

This volume considers reading as it affects and is affected by a culture which is becoming increasingly oral, presenting the speculations, research, and recommendations of reading professionals. Contents include a brief introduction of Neil Postman followed by Postman's "The Politics of Reading" and nine articles divided into four sections: "Oral…

The Executive Summary contained in this volume is intended to offer to Congress, agency officials, and the general public an initial descriptive assessment of school-based sites in the National Right to Read Program and to report on the study made in the areas of reading instruction and acquisition by Contemporary Research Incorporated (CRI) in…