Research supported by a grant from the U.S. Office of Education. (DS)

Describes a study of 115 college students enrolled in a reading improvement program and an equal number of control students. Significant gains in mean grade point average in reading rate, and in reading efficiency are reported for those students who entered the program reading between 200-250 words per minute. Bibliography. (MD)

Focus of the study was to assess linguistic competence as manifested by an ability to recognize ambiguity of three types: lexical, surface structural, and underlying structural. (Author)

Using the ability to understand five test structure sentences as a criteria of English comprehension, the author concludes that children pass through five specific stages of language development. The rapidity with which this development occurs is determined by Socioeconomic Status and reading interests of parent and child. (AF)

Desscribes the use of the cloze technique and the IBM Executive Dictating unit in helping children from grades 2 through 7 with their reading ability. (MB)