The effects of manipulating the connective words "because" and "after" on fifth graders' reading comprehension was examined. The results provide no support for the notion that sentence length is related to comprehensibility or that implicit connectives are more difficult to comprehend. (HOD)

Summarizes studies of strategies used in silent reading and in locating information in books, noting that the findings provide information relevant to the teaching of silent reading. Points out that more work is needed both in the observation of reading strategies and in the discovery of effective means of teaching these strategies. (GT)

Two successful teaching strategies for improving students' reading comprehension, vocabulary, and speed of reading comprehension are the MRM method (identifying sentence kernels) and the LOGANAR method (logically analyzing cognitive relationships). (CJ)

A study by R. Anderson, R. Reynolds, D. Schallert, and E. Goetz was replicated to determine the possible effects of contextual constraints on the findings of the original study. Results suggested that context-of-situation and background are both powerful predictors of interpretive frameworks of reading comprehension. (MKM)

Reviews recent research on eye movements and skilled silent reading and notes the new emphasis on providing insight into the comprehension process. (MKM)

Describes a study which examined the effectiveness of four methods for teaching word meanings. The context method was found to be more effective than the use of category labels and dictionary practice. Associating new words with familiar synonyms was also supported. (MKM)

Outlines an approach to children's responses to literature that (1) builds upon the knowledge available from different disciplines; (2) offers a conceptual model that accounts for the nature and dimensions of the "Secondary World"; and (3) argues that children's responses to stories can be most satisfactorily described in relation to…

Two experiments were conducted to test how readers process unattended words in a display and how the semantic category of these flanking words affects response time. (Author/AM)

The 54-item inventory allows teachers to compare their understanding and knowledge of how to help secondary level students read social studies materials with the opinions of reading specialists and findings of reading researchers. (Author/KC)

Describes a study of 16 kindergarten children--eight good prereaders and eight poor prereaders--designed to determine if there were relations between reading skill and the processing of distinctive features of patterns. Concludes that both pattern classification and feature processing appear to be involved in early reading skills. (TJ)

Tests the hypothesis that readers who differ in comprehension ability and are similar in their ability to decode single words differ in their ability to read words in sentence context. (FL)

Demonstrates the transactive nature of the cloze procedure; emphasizes reading as a thinking task and setting purposes as the key to efficient reading. Describes exercises to stimulate readers and to develop in them a conscious awareness about processing strategies. (AEA)

Rejects the belief that teaching music reading affects the teaching of language reading. Article is a further extension of the research provided by Ruth Zinar on the connection between the two (EJ 147 534). (Editor/RK)

This study examined bilingual children's performance in reading Persian and English at grades one, three, and six. Indications are that the bilingual children performed not quite as well as their monolingual counterparts in either of the languages despite the high degree of variation among the subjects. (Author/POP)

Studies profoundly deaf children's responses to picture book reading in a preschool environment as compared to responses of hearing children. Finds that in spite of a severe delay in learning language, deaf children's responses to the picture books were similar to those of hearing children. Concludes that deaf children learned a great deal about…