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Lynch, Roberta A. – 1987
A study examined what effect, if any, vision training exercises had on reading achievement. It was hypothesized that training students to control more accurately the speed and direction of their eye movements would improve their visual skills. However, it was also hypothesized that a more efficient visual system would have no effect on reading…
Descriptors: Eye Fixations, Eye Movements, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Lockledge, Ann; Matheny, Constance – 1987
Interviews with over 200 adults, both those who enjoy reading and dislike reading, were used to investigate the assumption that the impetus for lifelong enjoyment of reading most often occurs in the home before children enter school. Results indicate that parents who enjoy reading and encourage it produce families that enjoy reading. The…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Attitudes, Literature Appreciation
Higginson, Bonnie C. – 1986
A study investigated whether high school students employ different study strategies in different content areas and whether their study strategy selections are influenced by the degree to which they are familiar with these topics. Subjects, 79 high school juniors, read one familiar and one unfamiliar passage from both history and chemistry…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Bound Students, Content Area Reading, Grade 11
Download full textStahl, Norman A.; And Others – 1986
Since current research and theory question many of the traditional methods and techniques of teaching vocabulary, a study was made to determine the content of 55 college vocabulary texts and the extent to which the content was consistent with empirical evidence. The study investigated the techniques used to teach word knowledge and whether they…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Higher Education, Instructional Material Evaluation, Reading Improvement
George, Yvetta; Schaer, Barbara – 1986
To determine the most effective imagery method for facilitating kindergarten children's recall of prose content, a study investigated the effects of three mediums for presenting literature to children: storytelling, television, and dramatization. Subjects, 210 kindergarten students, were assigned to one of three gender-balanced treatment groups…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Drama, Imagery, Kindergarten Children
Meyer, Linda A.; And Others – 1986
A study examined children's comprehension of and preferences for basal reader stories with differing levels of coherence. The subjects were 58 second grade students who each read orally three stories judged to differ substantially on the number of incoherences in the text. Incoherences were defined as confusing referents, unclear relationships…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Childhood Attitudes, Coherence, Content Analysis
Read, Charles; And Others – 1979
Children and adults participated in a series of experiments to examine certain cues to surface constituency that are salient to children in the recognition of syntactic structure. Cue recognition was studied through a set of experiments requiring seven-year-old children to repeat certain syntactic constituents. It was found that the children could…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Context Clues, Grade 2
Denner, Peter R. – 1986
In a study examining the effectiveness of story-impressions (a previewing strategy) on story comprehension, remedial eighth grade students were asked to write predictions or "story-guesses" based on a series of one-word clues (story-impressions) that had been extracted from the material to be read. Having written a logical…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools, Learning Activities
Meckler, Terry Anne; Vogler, James D. – 1986
A study explored whether teaching the comprehension skills of inference, drawing conclusions, sequencing, and cause and effect would increase student achievement in reading and language while at the same time imparting social science content. Subjects, 197 eighth grade students in the experimental group and 192 eighth grade students in the control…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Content Area Reading
Denner, Peter R. – 1986
Since the precise nature of the effects of notetaking encoding has not been clearly specified, a study involving 111 suburban seventh graders (southeastern Idaho) explored the differential effects of traditional notetaking and of episodic organizers (a type of semantic web or map) on the encoding of complex narrative passages. Subjects were…
Descriptors: Encoding (Psychology), Grade 7, Junior High Schools, Learning Processes
Braun, Carl; And Others – 1985
A study examined the impact of instruction on the metacognitive strategies of five fifth-grade students whose vocabulary knowledge test scores were two or more stanines higher than their comprehension test scores. The students were administered "The Informal Reading Inventory" to determine their appropriate functional levels and the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Intervention
Sudia, Dell – 1985
To determine whether learning words can be accomplished effectively using the computer, 11 first grade children in an experimental group were taught specific sight words on the Apple computer as compared to the teaching of those same words to 11 children in the classroom using flashcards. A total of 25 words was taught over a five-week period. The…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Grade 1
Carr, Thomas H., Ed. – 1985
Focusing on how children learn to read in a language they have previously only spoken, this book illustrates the skill theory of reading development, which encompasses both new perceptual processes and modified but familiar integrative cognitive processes of language comprehension. The chapters discuss the following aspects of learning to read:…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education
Dzama, Mary Ann; Gilstrap, Robert L. – 1985
A study examined what parents of preschool children (infancy through age five) do to help their children get ready for a formal reading program, such as how often parents carried out prereading activities and how the activities compared with those generally suggested by early childhood education experts. Surveys completed by 157 parents indicated…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Family Environment, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Participation
Dickinson, David K.; Snow, Catherine E. – 1986
A study examined the interrelationship among print-related skills developed prior to formal reading instruction and social class differences in these skills in 33 middle-class and working-class children attending one of two high quality, reading-oriented kindergarten classes. Two hypotheses were generated: (1) that correlations would emerge among…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Decoding (Reading), Family Environment
