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Kaufman, Maurice; And Others – 1982
A study explored the use of an interactive analysis system, the Reciprocal Category System (RCS), for recording and analyzing observations of individuals tutoring in reading. The supervision of teaching requires observation, and the RCS can provide detailed, objective, and quantifiable records of behavior categories that occur in teacher-learner…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Interaction, Interaction Process Analysis, Reading Instruction
Dodd, William M. – 1984
A study examined the effect of five types of sentence faults on the method of information processing, recall ability, confidence rating, and comprehensibility rating of college freshman English students. The control text consisted of five passages and the accompanying comprehension questions exactly as they appear on the multiple choice Georgia…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Freshmen, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Download full textAlvermann, Donna E.; Boothby, Paula R. – 1984
Recognizing that children's spontaneous use of text structure facilitates their comprehension of expository prose, a study examined the transfer effects of graphic organizer instruction on 24 fourth grade students' ability to use top-level structure in the comprehension and recall of new content area material. Subjects were randomly assigned to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Grade 4, Graphic Organizers, Intermediate Grades
McDaniel, Ruth Rogers – 1983
A psycholinguistic analysis of oral reading miscue substitutions and of silent reading cloze substitutions was used to compare five dimensions of the oral and silent reading processes: grammatical function, syntactic acceptability, semantic acceptability, meaning loss, and correction. Subjects were third and sixth grade students with high,…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
Pinne, Susan M. – 1983
Intended as a resource to help mathematics teachers better understand how reading difficulties can affect student math performance, this annotated bibliography contains approximately 75 entries. The entries are arranged into the following categories: (1) reading skills needed in mathematics, (2) mathematical vocabulary and symbols, (3)…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities
Roehler, Laura R.; And Others – 1983
Research on classroom reading practices reveals a heavy emphasis on teacher monitoring and management of materials. Little evidence exists of teacher explanation in reading, and little is known about the qualitative dimensions of such instruction. With this in mind, a study was designed to provide descriptions of explanations used by effective…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Educational Research, Elementary School Teachers
Stauffer, Russell G.; Pikulski, John J. – Elementary English, 1974
Substantial linguistic growth took place in grade one children who were taught beginning reading by a language experience approach. (JH)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Language Acquisition, Language Experience Approach
Carrasquillo, Angela; And Others – 1986
A study surveyed first-year community college students enrolled in remedial English reading, to determine the perceived benefits of a remedial reading class. The study was specifically designed (1) to obtain a profile of the student population, (2) to identify students' reasons for taking remedial reading, and (3) to identify the relationship of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Compensatory Education, Reading Attitudes, Reading Difficulties
Futterman, Linda, Comp.; And Others – 1989
The 14th Jerusalem International Book Fair, as an integral part of the International Jerusalem Symposium on Encouraging Reading took place for the fourth time. It addressed itself specifically to the promotion of reading habits among children and young people. The proceedings contain the following addresses: (1) "Give Us Books, Give Us Wings;…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Mass Media Use
Neuman, Susan B. – 1989
A study examined good and poor readers' inferencing strategies as they read unambiguous texts. Subjects, 42 fifth-grade students from 11 classrooms in a Boston metropolitan area urban school district, read 2 well-constructed mystery stories divided into 6 episodes--each episode ended with the introduction of a new clue related to solving the case.…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Critical Reading, Grade 5, Inferences
Thomas, Phyllis M. – 1989
The 1987-88 Compensatory Language Experiences and Reading-Recovery (CLEAR-RR) Program of the Columbus, Ohio Public Schools was implemented to provide early intervention to 393 underachieving first-grade pupils in Columbus, Ohio schools who appeared unlikely to learn to read successfully without intensive instruction. The program's two major goals…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Grade 1, Individualized Reading, Primary Education
Harste, Jerome C. – 1989
Intended to help teachers, researchers, curriculum developers, and administrators develop improved policy in reading instruction and research, this book challenges several widespread assumptions about effective reading instruction and concludes with 20 policy guidelines which can be used to evaluate existing reading programs and redesign them to…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Perkins, Pamela – 1989
A study examined two 1989 basal reading series' (published by McGraw Hill and Holt) readiness/priming sequences in order to ascertain the theoretical bases of each and then compared the findings with those of an earlier study. All pages of the readiness/priming sequence student texts and workbooks of both basal reading series were analyzed using…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
Clariana, Roy B. – 1990
A study examined the effects of different teacher styles on one variable related to classroom learning production. Subjects, 34 first grade middle- and lower-middle income students in a Catholic school matched by ability and randomly assigned to either an authoritarian, systematic, ordered, and controlling teacher or to a "laissez faire"…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Classroom Environment, Computer Assisted Instruction, Grade 1
Afflerbach, Peter – 1987
A series of three studies examined the influence of prior knowledge on expert readers' main idea construction processes. Eight expert readers read texts from familiar and unfamiliar content domains, and gave verbal reports of the processes they used for constructing main ideas. Five distinct main idea construction processes were reported: (1)…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Prior Learning, Protocol Analysis, Psycholinguistics
