Describes and discusses a wide variety of theories and models of reading acquisition. (Author)

The use of diacritical marking facilitates learning to read and the benefits are neither specific to reading in that medium nor to reading in general. It may well prove that the most significant improvements are in the field of writing. (Authors/MB)

Reports investigations from journals in the areas of sociology, psychology, physiology, and the teaching of reading. (MB)

Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of employing a cooperative research strategy in science education. The Cooperative Research Project in First-Grade Reading is used to illustrate the concept of cooperative parallel research. Suggests that this approach would offer the opportunity of a real breakthrough in answering some of the perenial…

The study considers the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, the Ammons Quick Test, and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children. It examines the interrelationship of scores on the Gray Oral Reading Test, Spache's Diagnostic Reading Scales, and an informal reading inventory. Consistency of discrepancy scores to classify students is also studied.…

Eye movement of nonreaders (kindergarten subjects) and readers (third-grade subjects) were measured during a visual discrimination task involving matched and unmatched pairs of four-letter pseudowords. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses support the conclusion that the development of perceptual strategies is a direct result of increasing…

An experiment in which high school sophomores of varying intelligence read one-paragraph persuasive messages with varying levels of factual evidence. (Author/RD)