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Download full textMarko, Kathleen Barrett – 1972
The effectiveness of prephonic training between kindergarten and first grade levels as a tool for acquiring reading skills was explored throughout the public school system in the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts. A sample population of 260 kindergartners was identified as having potential learning difficulties by the results shown on the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Kindergarten, Phonics
Walter, Sherry Catherine – 1971
This study investigated possible differences in reading achievement of first graders when grouped by sex. The study also explored whether these groups' attitudes toward school, learning, and new experiences varied and, if so, how this affected reading achievement. Children were placed in five classrooms: one class of boys, one of girls, and three…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childhood Attitudes, Discipline Problems, Grade 1
Bushnell, Margaret – 1971
A study conducted in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, elementary schools, the first schools to adopt the Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.) approach to teaching basic reading in this country, revealed that children who started with i.t.a. had significantly less reading failure than children with traditional orthography (T.O.) training. Although the i.t.a.…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Elementary Education, Followup Studies, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Vick, Marian Lee – 1971
A review of the literature about reading instruction for ethnically different students discloses a body of information largely disconnected and biased. Numerous factors are alleged to be determinants of the reading retardation of such students. Generally, these fall into two categories: racial factors in intelligence and cultural deprivation. The…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Ethnic Groups, Intellectual Development
OLSON, ARTHUR V.; ROSEN, CARL L. – 1967
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES, BY RACE AND SEX, OF SPECIFIC STUDENTS ENROLLED IN TWO RECENTLY INTEGRATED HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES IS REPORTED. SUBJECTS WERE 264 NINTH-GRADE PUPILS--140 NEGROES AND 124 CAUCASIANS. TO MEASURE READING INTERESTS AND CHOICE OF MATERIALS, A 40-ITEM QUESTIONNAIRE WAS…
Descriptors: Black Students, Comparative Analysis, Grade 9, Questionnaires
KINGSTON, ALBERT J.; WASH, JAMES A. – 1965
THE SOURCES OF CONFUSION INVOLVED IN INITIATING PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION IN THE CLASSROOM ARE LISTED--(1) SPECIALIZED VOCABULARY DEALING WITH THE FIELD, (2) TYPES OF MACHINERY WITH RANGE FROM THE HIGHLY COMPLEX TO THE VERY SIMPLE, AND (3) DIFFERENT MODES OF PROGRAMING. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF TRUE PROGRAMED FORMATS ARE GIVEN--(1) THE MATERIALS ARE…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, College Instruction, Grade 10, Grade 11
Voigt, Melvin J., Ed.; Harris, Michael H., Ed. – 1976
A major theme of this volume is the issue of library accountability and evaluation of productivity. Four review papers deal directly with the topic. The first reviews the literature relating to evaluation of libraries generally with an emphasis on school libraries. The second focuses on the measurement of productivity in the academic library. It…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrators, Behavior, Bibliotherapy
Newkirk, Thomas – 1976
Findings from a number of studies of the reading interests and habits of British secondary school students are reviewed, and the results of a new survey of the opinions of 55 teachers are briefly reported. The studies indicate that a number of "classic" texts are popular but that "subliterature" is also popular and becomes more…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Fiction, Literature Appreciation, Novels
Allington, Richard L.; Strange, Michael – 1977
It has been suggested that good readers make better use of semantic/syntactic information and use relatively less graphic information than do poor readers. To test these hypotheses, minor visual alterations were inserted in words in connected text. Fifteen good and 15 poor readers at the fourth-grade level read two of the altered Passages orally.…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Failure, Intermediate Grades
PDF pending restorationSchoolcraft, Denzil R.; And Others – 1973
In order to discover whether significant relationships exist between factors of self-concept and parent attitude and the reading level recommended for students evaluated by a reading clinic, the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale was administered to 60 children, while the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale and Maryland Parent Attitude Survey…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship, Personality Measures
Rose, Phillip Allen – 1976
The purpose of this study was to determine the compatibility of the reading level of students with the required power-mechanics textbooks used by senior industrial arts majors in the California State University and Colleges System. The data for this study were obtained from responses to the Schrammel-Gray High School and College Reading Test…
Descriptors: College Seniors, College Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Higher Education
Brazee, Phyllis Ellen – 1976
Quantitative and qualitative aspects of the reading of narrative and expository materials were studied in a sample of 47 eighth-grade students. Informal Reading Inventories were developed from narrative and expository materials in use in the students' school, as were longer narrative and expository passages for miscue analysis. Passages were…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Doctoral Dissertations, Expository Writing, Grade 8
Alexander, Clara Franklin – 1976
Subject-area faculty and students who had just completed an introductory course at an inner-city, four-year college were surveyed to determine the reading and reading-related tasks most needed in their courses. Textbooks used in these courses were analyzed for organizational features and study aids. Results indicated an interrelationship among the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Instruction, College Students, Competency Based Education
Ginther, Dean Webster – 1976
Interrelationships between productive oral proficiency in black dialect and in standard English and reading comprehension of passages differing in dialect and content were investigated in a sample of 98 sixth-grade black students. Results indicated that students were better readers as their oral patterns of speech were more representative of…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Failure
The Effect of High and Low Interest Content on Instructional Levels in Informal Reading Inventories.
Walker, Martha Susan Motley – 1976
The effects of interest level on comprehension and word-recognition instructional levels were investigated in samples of fifth- and sixth-grade pupils. The effects of sex, ability, interest, and type of skill on performance on informal reading inventories were tested using a four-factor analysis of variance; each grade level was examined…
Descriptors: Ability, Doctoral Dissertations, Informal Reading Inventories, Intermediate Grades
