AN INVESTIGATION WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE WHETHER READING RATE VARIABILITY DEVELOPED WITH SHORT, TIGHTLY-CONSTRUCTED TRAINING MATERIALS WOULD TRANSFER TO LONGER, MORE SCHOOL-LIKE PASSAGES IMMEDIATELY AFTER TRAINING AND ONE MONTH LATER. THE PROJECT WAS AN EXTENSION OF THE USOE PROJECT 1755, "THE EXPERIMENTAL DEVELOPMENT OF VARIABILITY IN…

THE PUPILS IN A FIRST-GRADE CLASS IN MESA, ARIZONA, MADE THEIR OWN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE WORDS THEY COULD READ WHICH WERE NOT IN THE BASAL READERS. THE LIST TOTALED 2,124 WORDS. NOT EVERY CHILD KNEW ALL THE WORDS, BUT SOME KNEW ALL, AND ALL KNEW SOME. THE STUDY IS PRESENTED AS AN ANSWER TO THE STATEMENT BY PROFESSOR ARTHUR S. TRACE, JR., THAT…

VISUAL TRAINING IS DEFINED AS THE FIELD OF OCULAR REEDUCATION AND REHABILITATION OF THE VARIOUS VISUAL SKILLS THAT ARE OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE TO SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT, AUTOMOBILE DRIVING, OUTDOOR SPORTS ACTIVITIES, AND OCCUPATIONAL PURSUITS. A HISTORY OF ORTHOPTICS, THE SUGGESTED NAME FOR THE ENTIRE FIELD OF OCULAR REEDUCATION, IS GIVEN. READING AS…

THE SPELLINGS OF ALL MONOSYLLABIC WORDS IN THE CORE VOCABULARY OF AMERICAN ENGLISH WERE ANALYZED TO DETERMINE THE DEGREE OF CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN A PHONEME AND A SINGLE GRAPHEMIC REPRESENTATION IN THIS SET OF WORDS. A PHONEMIC CLASSIFICATION WAS DEVISED, AND COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY WAS USED TO ANALYZE THE PHONEME-GRAPHEME CORRESPONDENCE OF THESE…

A study was undertaken to investigate the effects of one hypnotic session on the reading improvement of high-risk college students with low aptitude scores and histories of failure in academic situations. The 27 students in the experimental group participated in a one-hour hypnosis session in which they were given a procedure to follow for…

Twenty-three studies in reading, each cited as exemplary by at least two of the approximately 100 reading teachers who responded to a 1978 survey, are listed in this paper. The studies are listed according to the three categories in which respondents were asked to place them: historical and longitudinal, descriptive, and experimental. For each…

A series of experimental and theoretical investigations of text inference were conducted. One applied a theory of inferable text cohesion to the devising of text structure revisions that assist comprehension and memory. Since only modest success was achieved, the next three projects went beyond text revision to the use of adjunct outlines,…

This paper outlines an approach to the study of internal state words and their use in conversation. The first section of the paper deals with the basic categories of words involved, discussing and illustrating theoretical and practical problems in defining critical components and boundaries for the class of internal state words as a whole and then…

A study of the application forms for Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, public assistance, food stamps, Medicaid, and Medicare was conducted to examine the frequently occurring unfamiliar, specialized vocabulary words. It was found that 76 such words occurred at least ten times in the documents studied. A large number of other…

The ability of 50 lower middle-class and 25 upper middle-class prereading children to discriminate between pairs of uppercase alphabet letters was tested. A set of 3x5 cards with a sample stimulus in the upper center section of each card and two alternative choice stimuli just below and to the right and left of the sample was used. The 650 total…

A comparison of a measure of crude gain with a measure of residual gain in individual reading improvement, as measured by the Nelson-Denny Reading Test, Revised, Form A and B administered to thirty-six college freshmen, showed the residual gain method to be the more reliable assessment of reading improvement. In addition, the residual gain…

One of the ways to handle the increasing demands on readers' skills is to make writing more readable. The problem has two different aspects: predicting how readable writing will be to a reader, and producing writing that is readable to that reader. Prediction is relatively simple, and can be done statistically with readability formulas. Production…

Two experiments were conducted to investigate the units of word perception used by adults and children reading on different levels of reading maturity. The purpose of the investigations was to determine whether whole words, single letters, or spelling patterns operate in the recognition of isolated words. Both experiments used a same-different…

The purpose of this study was to determine the strength of the relationship between syllabication ability and reading comprehension. Pre- and posttests using the syllabication and comprehension subtests of the Stanford Diagnostic Reading Tests were administered to 275 middle school children involved in corrective and developmental reading…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether subjective organizational ability and the organization of materials influence reading comprehension for one good and two groups of poor readers. The subjects were 200 freshmen classified as good readers with (average or above average reading comprehension), difference poor readers (with average or…