In recent years, there has been increasing emphasis on the idea of reading as a "socio-cultural" phenomenon, derived from the idea that reading is not an isolated skill but is necessarily related to the purposes reading will be put to in particular social and cultural contexts. This collection of essays acknowledges the undoubted…

While the Bedouin children's perceptual exploration might be considered less mature in some ways related to reading, this was not the case with other aspects of perceptual exploration. (DM)

The purpose of this study was to examine the assembly and system models of reading with respect to the development of phoneme-grapheme association skills in normal and disabled readers. (Author)

The present research was based on the premise that reading comprehension involves complex organizational strategies on the part of the reader, through which he detects meanings and interrelationships of the substantive material within the passage. (Author)

The retention of semantic, surface grammatical, and lexical information obtained from reading prose passages was tested after four time intervals, ranging from just after reading to one week later. (Editor)

Two experiments indicate that underlining is no more effective than repetitive reading in facilitating review of material before testing. (MB)

Describes a method by which language students can learn to read sense groups instead of word-by-word, increasing their reading and speaking skills. (SP)

Paper disscusses imaginative reading material in overcoming difficulties in learning to read. (MB)

Examines some historical facts surrounding Thorndike's 1917 article, Reading as Reasoning: A Study of Mistakes in Paragraph Reading," (republished in Reading Research Quarterly, 1971, 6, 425-48), in an attempt to put the article in its proper perspective both as a research study and as a contribution to the psychology of reading. (VJ)

Discusses the methodology and the conclusions of Thorndike's 1917 study. (VJ)