This is a report of an effort to improve ghetto children's reading in science classes. The writer worked as a consultant with ninth grade general science teachers. The teachers involved in this study used lessons designed by the consultant, as well as materials from commercial publishers. The author reports that there was marked improvement in the…

Focusing on the teaching of reading, chapters in this book (written in French, but with brief English and German translations of chapter resumes) consist of lectures delivered at an international symposium on the teaching of reading held in Switzerland in September of 1971. The contents include: an introduction: opening statements delivered at the…

This paper reports on the activities included in a seminar on reading which was held to discuss ways in which the International Reading Association (IRA) organizational affairs could improve professional matters dealing with reading in the European area. The contents include: "Proceedings Related to Organizational Matters," which…

The purpose of this study was to determine the disruptive effect of unknown words on reading and to examine this effect in relationship to grammatical position and modification type. Forty second grade children from two different lower middle class, semirural schools were randomly assigned to the standardization group or the experimental group.…

The purposes of this study were to replicate and extend the list learning results in a prose context, and to explore both the learning of incidental material and the effect of a text organization pretest and posttest information about passage structure. One hundred twenty-eight college undergraduates read a 460 word prose story, which mentioned…

This paper discusses the reading diary study--a method that involves frequent observation and detailed note-taking of the strategies employed by a child while learning to read--and the problems of data reduction, limitations of methods employed by researchers, and analysis of data. The sections include "Miscue Analysis," which can be…

The viability of visual imagery as a prose-learning process was evaluated in two experiments with elementary school children in this study. In experiment one, two concrete ten-sentence passages were constructed. The attributes of two subclasses were contrasted in each passage (two kinds of monkeys in one passage, and two kinds of cars in the…

The purpose of this study was to describe the differences in reading interests expressed by college students and prisoners. Two forms of fixed-alternative response surveys based on specific reading categories of presumed interest to young males were developed. The short form consisted of fifteen named categories ranging from social problems like…

This literature review groups reports and studies, on the usefulness of television technology in the teaching of reading, into two broad categories, those in which the medium is used to actually teach sound-symbol relationships and those in which the medium is used as a motivational device to interest children in print. "Sesame Street" and…

This report describes how to apply techniques that have been used in measuring the readability/comprehensibility and reading level of textural materials. A review of available readability/comprehensibility measurement techniques and of previous experimental studies into methods for developing such techniques is presented. As a result of this…

This paper summarizes the work to date on the revised Harris-Jacobson Readability Formulas. The contents include "The Criterion," which discusses the criterion used in the development of the formulas; "Variables Employed," which includes percent of uncommon words, average sentence length, percent of long words, mean number of letters per word, and…

Reading research over the past 50 years seems to have produced little useful information for classroom teachers. This does not imply that nothing of importance has been accomplished, but does indicate that communication barriers exist. One major impediment to progress is the lack of understanding by classroom teachers as to what research is all…

This booklet summarizes forty-two Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.)research reports, highlighting the major features of each study. With minor variation, usually resulting from an absence of complete information, each abstract indicates the number and type of students involved, their grade level, and how they were assigned to experimental or…

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of adjunct aids in the form of questions on ninth graders' comprehension of 3,500-word passages. Specifically, the study focused on the effect on literal comprehension of content and process stimulus questions written at the cognitive levels of memory and evaluation when positioned before and…

This study was designed to rank the first 100 words of the "Great Atlantic and Pacific Sight Word List" according to learnability. The differences in the learnability rankings of the words due to the sex of the subject and the relationship between the learnability and frequency rankings of the words were also examined. Subjects in the study were…