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Haynes, Jack E.; Fillmer, H. Thompson – Reading World, 1984
Examines the relationship between the paraphrasing skills of intermediate grade students and their proficiency in reading comprehension and the sensitivity of three methods of assessing paraphrasing skills. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Intermediate Grades, Measurement Techniques, Reading Ability
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Nehr, Monika; Riehl, Astrid – Journal of Research in Reading, 1984
Reports on experiments that investigated several aspects of foreign language reading, especially the role and influence of the audiolingual component on the learning process. (FL)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Reading Research
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Sahu, Shantilata; Devi, Gita – Journal of Research in Reading, 1984
Compares the performance of good and poor readers on information processing tasks. (FL)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Reading Ability
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Walberg, Herbert J.; Tsai, Shiow-ling – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1983
Probes the association of reading achievement and attitude with productive factors in learning by regressing on 18 indices of seven factors the scores of more than 2,000 17-year-old students from a National Assessment of Educational Progress sample. (FL)
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Attitudes, Reading Instruction, Reading Research
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Gray, Mary Jane – Reading Horizons, 1984
Indicates that teachers still in preparation tended to cling closely to traditional beliefs about the teaching of reading. Suggests that teacher educators reexamine their preparation programs to determine if they are offering prospective reading teachers information about psycholinguistics and other theories of the reading process. (FL)
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Preservice Teacher Education, Psycholinguistics, Reading Instruction
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Sinatra, Richard C.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1984
Contends that visual presentations of story elements can enhance poor readers' comprehension. Supports the claim by presenting a study on a mapping readiness approach to improve comprehension. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Reading Improvement
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Groff, Patrick – Reading Psychology, 1983
Reports on a study that investigated the ability of second grade students to listen to, infer, and produce the correct pronuciations of high-frequency words in a story-like context. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Grade 2, Phonics
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Sultman, William F.; And Others – Reading Psychology, 1983
Reports the findings of a study that sought (1) to confirm for Australian children the pattern of print concept acquisition noted in North America and New Zealand and (2) to determine whether children of varying reading proficiency can be differentiated in terms of their print concepts. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Foreign Countries, Linguistics, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
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Mosenthal, James H.; Tierney, Robert J. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1984
Concludes that attempts to maintain objectivity by measuring surface features of text end up describing effects rather than causes of coherence in text. (FL)
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Learning Theories, Reading Comprehension
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Blair, Timothy R. – Reading Teacher, 1976
Students' achievement rises when teachers develop a variety of materials and provide differentiated instruction. (Author)
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Instructional Materials, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction
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Carver, Ronald P. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1976
Finds no support for a widely-held theory relating redundancy to reading rate and eye movements. (Author/RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Eye Movements, Higher Education, Readability
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Canney, George F. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1976
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Grade 2, Language Patterns, Listening Comprehension
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Fox, Barbara Crowley – Reading Improvement, 1976
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition, Literature Reviews
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Goolsby, Thomas M., Jr. – Reading Improvement, 1976
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Reading Achievement, Reading Research, Remedial Programs
Mommers, M. J. C. – New Outlook for the Blind, 1976
Descriptors: Braille, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Performance Factors
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