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Albert, Elaine – 1974
Prepared to guide the nonprofessional in helping another person learn to read, this book consists of systematic phonics for the remedial or beginning reader. Some of the pages in the book are addressed to the tutor and some to the learner. Introductory material includes descriptions of reading, the teacher, phonics, tools used in learning to read,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Phonetics, Phonics
Download full textGhatala, Elizabeth S.; Levin, Joel R. – 1975
This study consisted of two experiments. In the first experiment, 40 college students gave frequency ratings for concrete and abstract words which were equated on normative frequency. From the results it was concluded that abstract (low imagery) words, even though the two sets of words are of equal frequency. In the second experiment, different…
Descriptors: College Students, Discrimination Learning, Imagery, Reading Processes
Wolford, George – 1973
Seven experiments were run to determine the precise nature of some of the variables which affect the processing of short-term visual information. In particular, retinal location, report order, processing order, lateral masking, and redundancy were studied along with the nature of the confusion errors which are made in the full report procedure.…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Paired Associate Learning, Reading Processes, Reading Research
Marsh, George; Mineo, R. James – 1970
This study deals with the ability of the beginning reader to recognize the relationships between isolated letter sounds and the same sounds embedded in a word context. The subjects were 64 prekindergarten children attending six private preschools in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The subjects were all Caucasian and spoke a standard English…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Decoding (Reading), Phonemes
Leisman, Gerald; Schwartz, Joddy – 1975
This paper discusses the dichotomy between continually moving eyes and the lack of blurred visual experience. A discontinuous model of visual perception is proposed, with the discontinuities being phase and temporally related to saccadic eye movements. It is further proposed that deviant duration and angular velocity characteristics of saccades in…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Reading, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension
Ellison, Joseph Lee – 1974
The purpose of this study was to determine whether there were any differences between the responses made by selected college students to information presented in a visual context and to the same basic information presented in a verbal context. Selected college students were asked to respond to pictorial information and to the same basic…
Descriptors: College Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Memory
Schale, Florence – 1969
A preliminary study is reported which attempted to define gifted rapid readers, authenticate the performances of three subjects who were designated as gifted rapid readers, and explore the relationship of a subject's ability to perceive print eidetically and to read and/or skim. Volunteer subjects were a 15-year-old girl from the Philippines, a…
Descriptors: Eidetic Imagery, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Reading Rate
Gephart, William J. – 1970
This study covers a program of research on problems in the area of reading undertaken and supported by the U. S. Office of Education. Due to the effectiveness of the Convergence Technique in the planning and management of complex programs of bio-medical research, this project is undertaken to develop plans for the application of this technique in…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Educational Problems, Models, Reading Achievement
Gates, Arthur I.; And Others – 1965
The full texts of invitational addresses given at the 1965 International Reading Association (IRA) Convention in Detroit, Michigan, by six recipients of IRA citation awards are presented. Gates suggests steps IRA should take to revive and redirect reading research. McCallister discusses the implications of the changing and expanding vocabulary of…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Perception, Reading Development, Reading Improvement
Nacke, Phil L. – 1970
An integral dimension in the concept of flexible efficient reading is the process of skimming, which is defined as the reading behavior in which information is processed without looking at all or most of the words in continuous printed discourse. Measurement of flexible reading efficiency presents problems which revolve around four major issues.…
Descriptors: Measurement, Reading Comprehension, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Processes
Farr, Roger – 1970
This review of the history of the measurement of reading comprehension follows the development of formal and informal reading comprehension tests dating from 1913 to the present. Upon reviewing the aspects, procedures, and criteria of these tests, the author noted that most of these tests resembled group verbal intelligence tests. Makeup of the…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, History, Measurement Instruments, Measurement Techniques
Keller, Don F.; Cunningham, Donald J. – 1972
This study was designed to explicate the nature of the processes utilized by students when learning from textual materials when the text has been augmented by interspersing questions at various points. Sixty undergraduate students were randomly assigned to one of six treatment groups. The experimental treatments were: (1) questions shortly before,…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Reading, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension
Downing, John – 1971
General comparisons are made between American and British reading instruction, and outstanding commonalities and differences between the two countries are emphasized. Both, for example, believe in the necessity for careful early instruction, and both believe in the importance of reading as a skill. Differences exist in attitudes toward learning to…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Trends, Foreign Countries
LOVITT, THOMAS C. – 1966
THE RESEARCH CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT INCLUDED TWO STUDIES--(1) OPERANT PREFERENCE FOR RATE OF NARRATION AND (2) ORAL READING, SILENT READING, AND SPEAKING RATES. THE FIRST STUDY WAS BASED ON A DOCTORAL DISSERTATION FOR WHICH OPERANT-CONDITIONING TECHNIQUES AND CONJUGATE REINFORCEMENT WERE APPLIED IN RECORDING PREFERENCES FOR NARRATIVE RATE. THE…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis, Handicapped Children, Listening
PDF pending restorationVENEZKY, RICHARD L.; WEIR, RUTH H. – 1966
A LINGUISTIC MODEL WAS DEVELOPED FOR RELATING SPELLING TO SOUND AND TO EXPLORE THOSE FACETS OF ENGLISH ORTHOGRAPHY WHICH MIGHT RELATE TO THE READING PROCESS. A DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE BASIS OF THE ORTHOGRAPHY WAS MADE WHICH INCLUDED DISCUSSIONS OF THE GRAPHEME-PHONEME PARALLEL, RELATIONAL UNITS, MARKERS, AND GRAPHEMIC ALTERNATIONS. REVISIONS AND…
Descriptors: Graphemes, Language Patterns, Models, Orthographic Symbols
