Investigates the relationship of reading ability and age to children's recall of expository text after reading and analyzes children's sensitivity to text structure. (MKM)

Reports on a study of the attitudes of 50 middle and high school content area teachers with respect to evaluation and to teaching strategies and reading skills in the areas of decoding, comprehension, reference and study skills, and vocabulary. (TJ)

Reviews the procedures, findings, and implications of Kenneth Goodman's 1965 study of the role of context in the linguistic awareness of beginning readers; concludes that "a substantial number of those who support Goodman's findings and his implications do so for intuitive rather than empirical reasons." (GT)

An Englishwoman who had had no lessons in the Spanish language but had developed oral skills while on vacation in Spanish-speaking countries began reading Spanish newspapers and observed her reading processes. (CFM)

Reports an investigation of the effectiveness of "Speedway: The Action Way to Read" in increasing the reading rate and efficiency of adult readers. (FL)

Suggests that knowledge of relational structures in combination with techniques for determining the meaning of unknown lexical terms assists Black disabled readers in improving their reading performance. (FL)

A comparison of the effects of educational counseling of parents of backward readers with the effects of specialized remedial help for such readers suggests that an interested, well-informed staff who can enlist the positive cooperation of parents can substantially reduce the problem of reading failure without elaborate specialized provisions. (GT)

Examines the effects upon reading achievement of increasing time-on-task in underachieving children. (HOD)

The purpose of this investigation was to determine if beginning readers with accelerated sight word vocabularies would identify more functional spelling patterns than beginning readers not making the same progress. (HOD)

Compares the Bond and Tinker, and the Harris reading expectancy formulas, using 113 fourth, fifth, and sixth graders. Finds that the use of both formulas is desirable in clinical situations, but that the Harris formula is preferable if gains on standardized tests are the only criteria of success. (RL)

Findings of experiments conducted with two groups of 12-year-olds--ten good spellers and ten poor spellers, all of equal reading achievement--suggested that the poor spellers were proficient at going from print to meaning but were impaired at converting print to sound. (GT)

Reports on studies testing a method that uses a television monitor to present simultaneously the visual and auditory versions of sentences, as a way of facilitating the teaching of reading. (GT)

This study investigated responses made by prospective teachers when conducting an Informal Oral Reading Inventory with a student whose oral reading exhibited some features of black dialect. (HOD)

Contends that second-language reading comprehension should be investigated using adult bilingual readers reading authentic materials in their first and second languages and should focus on the process rather than the product. Examines reading strategies of eight Chinese graduate students at a Canadian university. Suggests that students used the…

Describes insights gained by British teachers investigating implications of CD-ROM for English with their Key Stage 2 pupils. Studies pupils' use of the CD-ROM and its effect on learning. Develops effective strategies to help pupils cope with the reading demands and edit their own texts. Observes positive effects on critical reading,…