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Download full textContemporary Research, Inc., Los Angeles, CA. – 1973
This book, volume two of a four-volume report of 44 school-based sites in the National Right to Read Program, documents the reading gains made by the students. Statistical data on reading test scores are charted by grade level and by total school for each of the sites involved. The same statistics are included on an across-site comparative basis.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, National Programs, Reading, Reading Achievement
Lewis, Ruth Watson – 1972
The purpose of this study was to determine whether there is a significant difference in the self-concept scores of first-grade children receiving self-concept training and those not receiving such training; whether there is a difference in the reading achievement scores of first-grade children receiving self-concept training and those not…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 1, Reading, Reading Ability
Gurucharri, Kathleen Agnes – 1973
The purposes of this study were to investigate possible relationships between haptic abilities and first grade reading achievement and to determine whether significant differences in haptic function existed among defined subgroups of first grade subjects. Ninety-nine subjects, stratified by both sex and risk of failure (a combination of reading…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 1, Learning Modalities, Reading
Duffey, Robert V. – 1974
The reading habits of inservice elementary school teachers were surveyed through questionnaires administered in the summers of 1966 and 1972. The present study examined the findings of the two surveys for differences and possible inferences. Answers were sought to such questions as what magazines other than professional education journals were…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Inservice Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Reading Habits
Downing, John; And Others – 1973
The aim of this study was to test a hypothesis derived from the Cognitive Clarity Theory which compares Indian and non-Indian children in two localities of British Columbia. It was hypothesized that, in comparison with Indian children, the non-Indian children would show significantly superior performance on objective tests of cognitive clarity in…
Descriptors: American Indians, Beginning Reading, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Bazelak, Leonard Paul – 1973
In this study the freely written responses of tenth grade students to four short stories written by black American writers were collected and analyzed. Specific purposes of the study included comparing (1) the racial attitudes of a black literature reading group and a control group, (2) black and white students' level of comprehension, and (3)…
Descriptors: Black Literature, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 10, High School Students
Contemporary Research, Inc., Los Angeles, CA. – 1973
A major purpose of the 1972-73 evaluation of school-based Right to Read sites was to provide a comprehensive description of the reading program at each school. Volume 3 (parts 1, 2, and 3) describes reading programs in terms of school, student, and teacher characteristics. Additionally, all program variables that characterized each site are…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, National Surveys, Reading, Reading Ability
Britton, Gwyneth E. – 1974
The purpose of this study was to provide documentation of facts regarding the issues of representation, sexism, and stereotyping of racial ethnic minorities in twenty different reading series. There were 5,242 stories analyzed from 244 different reading texts. Major character representation for racial/ethnic minorities showed 698 stories. The…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Females, Instructional Materials, Males
Ingersoll, Gary M. – 1974
This experiment tested conjectures concerning the effects of learners' attending preferences on the establishment of auditory-visual intersensory associations in a bisensory paired associate task. Attending patterns were identified through the use of a bisensory diget-span task. On the basis of fifth and sixth grade subjects' performance during…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Grade 5, Grade 6, Learning Theories
McAllister, Tom M. – 1974
The progress of 1970-71 kindergarten students from systematically selected schools was followed until June 1973. A formal reading program was administered to experimental pupils as a part of the kindergarten curriculum. Findings indicate that pupils from high socioeconomic schools know concepts usually taught in kindergarten before they enter…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Early Childhood Education, Primary Education
Stank, Peggy L. – 1973
The purposes of this study were to evaluate the effect of a diagnostic structured kindergarten program on the predicted reading levels of disadvantaged urban children and to compare the effect of this program with the effect of the traditional kindergarten curriculum. The subjects were 196 children in eight kindergarten classes. More than 70% of…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Disadvantaged Youth, Doctoral Dissertations, Kindergarten Children
Central Arkansas Education Center, Little Rock. – 1972
The project described in this document involves the implementation of an individualized reading program with sixth graders during the spring semesters of the 1970-71 school year and the 1971-72 school year. Behavioral objectives for the students were written in the areas of word recognition skills, vocabulary skills, comprehension skills, speed…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Diagnostic Teaching, Grade 6, Individualized Reading
Shapiro, Bernard J.; Shapiro, Phyllis P. – 1973
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of two methods of reading instruction on children's ability to write original compositions. The subjects for this study were 684 first and second graders. Of the 293 first grade children, 130 were receiving their reading instruction in i.t.a., while the remaining 163 children were working in…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Grade 1, Grade 2, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Braine, Lila Ghent – 1967
Certain asymmetries of perception in the right and left visual fields of American college students have been described as the effect of a reading habit which predisposes the subjects to scan or organize material in a left-to-right direction and thus to identify more accurately the items in the left field. The purpose of the present work was to…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, English, English (Second Language)
Ienatsch, Grant Peter – 1973
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect that various methods of using television have on instruction in reading for second graders. A specific part of the study was to explore whether teacher interaction is an important consideration in the use of the educational television program, "The Electric Company." A sample of 156…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Television, Grade 2
