Forty-eight sentences, which associated eight attributes with six chessmen, were clustered in paragraphs by chessman, by attribute, or by rote group (randomized). One-half of 42 high school graduates were told the conceptual structure of the passage before reading. Subjects read the passages for three 5-minute periods in order to learn the…

The influence of motivation in modifying the effect of adjunct questions was explored. Each of 270 undergraduates were promised 0, 3, or 10 cents for each correct answer on a test given immediately after reading. Questions were placed either frequently or infrequently in a text, either before or after the relevant material. Controls read the text…

In order to learn whether teenagers are reading books and, if so, which books they choose, "The New York Times" conducted a fact-finding project. Questionnaires were mailed to the school librarians and English chairmen of 7000 secondary and intermediate schools. The wide variety of answers to observable trends necessitated the analysis of a random…

The effects of imagery on the recognition of subunits within a textual passage were investigated. College students first rated the subunits of a textual passage with respect to imagery. A different group of subjects was then given the passage to read, and these subjects were subsequently tested for recognition, either immediately or one week…

This study examined whether reading books alone, without adult-led discussions or other intervention, can change children's attitudes toward specific objects. A variation of the semantic differential test was administered to 22 fifth graders to determine their attitudes toward seven countries. England, France, and Holland were regarded as…

Facilitation of learning depends upon a synergistic relationship among administrators, instructors, and learners, each of whom responds to educational technology in one or more of the following alternative ways: (1) he is ignorant of technology; (2) he ignores technology; (3) he acknowledges the existence of technology but condemns it as…

Sixty of the possible beginning phonemes of English monosyllables were paired with the vowel /a/ in nonsense syllables, and used in illustrative one-syllable words. The sixty manners of commencing words had been scaled in terms of their relative perceptual similarity-dissimilarity in sounds. Both syllables and words were divided into three levels…

A revised version of the 1965 International Reading Association bibliography of High School Reading Programs, this bibliography lists and annotates 34 titles dealing with the broader issues of secondary reading program development. The materials included generally reflect on or analyze trends in reading programs rather than outline specific…

The purpose of this investigation was to test whether the assembly or system model was more adequate to account for the relationships among subskills in normal and disabled readers. Thirty-eight subjects were divided into three groups. There were 19 disabled subjects with a mean chronological age of 9.17, a mean IQ of 104.84, and a mean reading…

The purposes of this study were to determine what context clues are used by sixth grade children as they read narrative and expository materials and to determine if narrative writing offers different clues than expository writing. A further purpose of this study was to develop a classification schema or schemata of context clues for both styles of…

This study investigated the adolescent experience with adult literature. Sixty-six eighth graders' free written responses to the Junior novel "Turned Out" were compared to their responses to the adult novel "A Separate Peace." Both novels were segmented into four divisions representing the exposition, development, climax, and conclusion of each…

Psychological experiments investigating imposed and induced cognitive strategies are reviewed and related to operations in reading comprehension. It has been suggested that comprehension differences between good and poor readers may arise from the way in which they habitually organize intra- and inter-sentence elements during input.…

The investigation studied two procedures of data collection used to determine children's reading interests. These procedures were compared to see if children responded the same to annotated titles as to actual books. Following an interest inventory, 233 fifth grade children were divided into three groups and were asked whether they would select a…

The purpose of this study was to determine how reading achievement is affected by six independent personality factors (PF) exhibited by second-grade pupils. Personality factors involved are: (A) reserved vs. outgoing, (B) less intelligent vs. more intelligent, (C) feelings vs. emotionally stable, (D) phlegmatic vs. excitable, (E) obedient vs.…

The purpose of this study was to determine what differences in expressed attitudes toward reading existed after one school year's instruction in each of four different beginning reading programs. Four schools with similar populations using four different emphases in beginning reading were selected for sampling. The different emphases were Language…