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…

The purpose of this survey was to determine the effect of the Right to Read program on classroom practice during reading instruction and on elementary school teachers' expressed needs for graduate work in reading. A questionnaire was sent to teachers in the twenty-two Phase I Right to Read schools in Minnesota; it was also sent to teachers in…

This study suggests a criteria checklist for assessing the content components of nonfiction selections of adolescents. Based on the assumption that most of the nonfiction read by adolescents in the English class is anthologized, this study analyzes the content components of 12 leading anthologies recommended for the eighth grade in terms of their…

Thirty-one research studies in reading education completed at Canadian universities from 1928 to 1973 are reviewed in this paper, and an attempt is made to locate trends in reading research. The studies have been divided into the following categories: comprehension, reading achievement, remedial reading, and voluntary reading. Each category…

Two experiments were conducted to ascertain whether the reader uses phonological cues, semantic cues, or both types of cues in identifying letter combinations. Sixty introductory psychology students participated in the first experiment, which tested the differential effects of phonological and semantic cues on the speed with which a verbal unit…

This booklet is a guide to research done on More Effective Schools (MES) through April, 1969. The Bureau of Educational Research of the New York City Board of Education found that the mean gain in reading comprehension of MES students over non-MES students ranged from 2.5 to 4.5 school months relating to the period studied. The booklet summarizes…

This collection of general sources of information on reading published during the years 1967, 1968, and 1969 updates a previous bibliography of the same name. The most recent three years of research summaries in the ERIC/CRIER Basic Reference Collection were reviewed and the most useful documents identified. The entries are arranged alphabetically…

Three papers are presented, and each is followed by two reactions. The first paper presents methods of dealing with questions about the conduct of scientific theorizing. The theory-models approach is explained as a mode for conducting part of the theory construction tasks required in the complete act of scientific inquiry. In the second paper a…

Results of two studies of the ability to use specific context clues and possible academic correlates of this ability are reported. In the first study, a five-form data-gathering instrument, using categories of context clues derived from Artley, Betts, and McCullough, was administered to 315 tenth-grade students in Seattle, Washington. Simulated…

Linguistic research at phonological and higher levels is reviewed. At the phonological level controversy centers around the phenomena of linguistic development, including reading, spelling, and pronounceability, and is accompanied by suggestions of how to help a learner cope with these phenomena. At the higher levels of apparent and underlying…

The purpose of this study was to identify unique contributions of bibliographies in closely related subject areas that were assembled for different purposes, by analyzing random samples from the TRDPR Literature Search in Reading and the ERIC/CRIER bibliography, "Recent Research in Reading." Findings are that in bibliographies of less…

The purpose of this study was to determine the proportion of words that the Dolch list and the word list for the 1970's accounted for in written materials. The two word lists were compared by token comparison--a method by which words are weighted on the basis of frequency of occurrence within a given set of materials. The written materials used…

This experiment investigated the assumption that children's learning and retention of prose material can be differentially affected by varying discrepancy from expectation (as established by an advance organizer). It was hypothesized that a passage which differed significantly from expectation would produce heightened arousal, which should in turn…