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Download full textGUNDERSON, DORIS V. – 1965
FOURTEEN STUDIES IN THE AREA OF READING READINESS ARE SURVEYED. MUCH OF THE RESEARCH IS DIRECTED AT THE CHILD WHO NEEDS A PERIOD OF READINESS, PARTICULARLY THE CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED CHILD. THE VALIDITY OF READINESS TESTS, THE IMPORTANCE OF SEX DIFFERENCES, AND BEGINNING READERS ARE OTHER TOPICS DISCUSSED. REFERENCES ARE GIVEN. THIS ARTICLE IS…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Disadvantaged, Grade 1, Kindergarten
LEVIN, HARRY – 1966
THE BASES OF READING RESEARCH AND THE FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES OF READING WERE PRESENTED. FOLLOWING AN OVERVIEW OF RESEARCH IN READING FROM ABOUT 1916 TO THE PRESENT, THE AUTHOR DEFINED READING AS A BASIC BUT COMPLEX SKILL, AND EXAMINED SOME COMPONENTS WHICH MAKE UP THE SKILL. IDENTIFICATION OF THE PROCESS OF READING WAS DESCRIBED IN TERMS OF THE…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Curriculum Development, English, Interdisciplinary Approach
HOPPOCK, ANNE – 1966
ARGUMENTS AGAINST FORMALIZED READING INSTRUCTION IN THE KINDERGARTEN WERE PRESENTED. AFTER PRELIMINARY COMMENTS CONCERNING THE PURPOSE AND PLAN OF THE CONFERENCE, THE NEW JERSEY STATE BOARD STANDARDS FOR KINDERGARTENS WERE DISCUSSED IN LIGHT OF THEIR CRITERIA FOR ESTABLISHMENT AND THEIR ADMINISTRATION. THE CASE AGAINST MAKING READING INSTRUCTION A…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Development, Early Reading, Kindergarten
SINGER, HARRY – 1965
SEVERAL DEVELOPMENTAL HYPOTHESES DRAWN FROM THE SUBSTRATA-FACTOR THEORY OF READING WERE TESTED AT THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEVEL. TO ELABORATE ON THEORETICAL ASSERTIONS THAT READING ABILITY IS AN AUDIOVISUAL PROCESSING SKILL OF SYMBOLIC REASONING, THE SUBSTRATA FACTORS ACCOMPANYING DEVELOPMENT OF SPEED AND POWER OF READING WERE DEPICTED IN…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Theories, Reading, Reading Ability
Bartelo, Dennise M. – 1979
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a Maryland State Compensatory Reading Program at the middle school level. Specifically, the study attempted to determine the effects of silent reading practice on reading achievement and on student attitudes toward reading. Subjects were 74 sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools
Gittelman, Rachel; And Others – 1980
A study was conducted to investigate the effects of methylphenidate given in conjunction with reading remediation to children with pure reading disorders. A total of 66 children receiving motivated reading remediation were randomly assigned to either a placebo or a methylphenidate treatment group. A battery of reading, academic, and psychological…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Drug Therapy, Drug Use, Elementary Education
Thompson, Murray D.; Block, Karen K. – 1979
A study was conducted that used three formats for spelling practice, two multiple-choice or recognition conditions based on the Simon model and one production or recall condition. (The Simon generate-and-test model of spelling suggests that spellings can be learned from reading or visual exposure to the correct spelling.) The multiple-choice…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Grade 5, Grade 6
Rauch, Margaret; Fillenworth, Ceil – 1980
An investigation was conducted comparing six college students who used cognitive mapping to two control groups, each with five students, who used a self-selected study strategy and reading. Cognitive mapping is a study strategy that displays the meaning of text through a diagram depicting the interconnectedness of the ideas in the text. Results…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Content Area Reading
Whaley, Jill Fitzgerald – 1980
A study was conducted to determine whether (1) readers would express an awareness of structural disruption in stories, (2) there were developmental differences in the extent to which readers were aware of structural disruption, and (3) there were developmental differences in the types of structural disruptions that disturbed readers. Fifty third…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Expectation
Spiro, Rand J. – 1980
Considerable attention has been devoted in recent years to theories of text comprehension and recall that stress the importance of preexisting knowledge structures or schemata. While the valuable contribution such research has made to the understanding of the reading process and the various disabilities that often attend its acquisition must be…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Knowledge Level, Language Processing, Prior Learning
Ulijn, Jan – 1980
Neither grammar-translation methods in foreign language learning nor the subsequent emphasis on spoken language paid sufficient attention to the importance of fluent reading with comprehension in a foreign language. However, the introduction of new means of testing, notably by multiple-choice questions, stimulated renewed interest in the…
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Language Research, Language Tests, Literature Reviews
Scott, Shirley Ann – 1980
A study investigated factors in the backgrounds and present status of eighth and ninth grade inner city students at different stages of reading attitude development and examined how those factors compared from stage to stage. The 50 participants, 48 of whom were black, were administered three attitude measures. Data concerning student conduct,…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Blacks, Cultural Influences, Disadvantaged Youth
Long, Russell C. – 1980
A study was conducted to test the proposition that the act of oral reading would be significantly different between competent and incompetent writers and the corollary proposition that the act of oral reading closely approximates the act of writing. A writing sample was devised that included three major features: all the common marks of…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Students, Comprehension, Higher Education
Meyer, Linda A. – 1980
A study was conducted to compare the effects of two types of word-attack correction procedures within the context of the "Decoding B" component of the S.R.A. corrective reading program and to evaluate the effectiveness of the program with remedial students. Ten teachers and 58 students (aged 7 to 14) were randomly assigned to one of two treatment…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Reading Instruction, Reading Programs
Schwartz, Robert M.; Stanovich, Keith E. – 1980
Two studies investigated the use of graphic and contextual information in word recognition, and the extent to which good and poor fourth grade readers were flexible in their ability to trade off one type of information for another as situations warranted. The subjects orally read stories containing ten altered words, with a single letter…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Context Clues, Elementary Education, Grade 4
