Summarizes types of reading research studies reported in 1970 and in 1980, describes the establishment of the Center for the Study of Reading at the University of Illinois, and notes a research trend away from the testing of programs and toward the development of principles. (ET)

A review of interactive models of reading combined with the assumption of compensatory processes indicates that compared to poor readers, good readers appear to have superior strategies for comprehending and remembering large units of text and are superior at context-free word recognition. (MKM)

Reviews literature in applied linguistic and reading methodology and outlines a suffix-grammar as it is used in a reading course in Latin. The principles of the grammar are discussed and an example of its application in the reading course is given. (Author/AMH)

A study designed to assess knowledge of biostatistics and epidemiology relevant to medical literature and administered to internists and medical house staff at a teaching hospital is assessed. The results of the study suggest that knowledge of basic biostatistics and of study design is important for reading medical literature. (Author/MLW)

Scholastic Aptitude Test verbal, reading comprehension, and vocabulary scores are similar to the Nelson-Denny total, reading comprehension, and vocabulary scores. Correlation coefficients developed from these comparisons, when viewed as validity coefficients, are moderately high. (Author)

Subjects listened to sounds of individual musical instruments and matched these to instrument pictures. Second graders scored significantly higher than first graders; rank orders of instruments according to association difficulty, however, were markedly similar between grades. Results support the view that children bring much music knowledge to…

Overall findings of this meta-analysis reveal small effects of adjunct pictures on reading comprehension. No advantage was found when traditional v nontraditional text settings were compared. Line drawings seem to facilitate comprehension and color pictures seem to have a greater effect than black and white pictures. (Author)

In these studies, the structured content overview positively affected students' upper and lower level comprehension scores as compared to either vocabulary preteaching or control (no prereading) treatments. Vocabulary preteaching appeared to be more important with science than with history materials. (Author/SJL)

Demonstrates some of the many ways in which a text can be used, not only as a basis for comprehension, but also for practicing grammatical structures, writing, and conversation skills. Such a variety of activities with one text can help to alleviate students' boredom. Sample texts are given. (Author/PJM)

Three experiments (which used adults and 14-year-old children) studied the congruence between textual input at encoding and output in the form of memory reproductions. Results verified a very close correspondence between encoding and retrieval regarding hierarchically structural operations on the information in simple stories. (AN)

Cites ERIC materials describing how music in the classroom can help improve reading readiness, recall, and creative writing. (HTH)

Gives the format of a listening exercise in which students perform two tasks while listening to a dialog: they answer 15 true-false questions and they label the rooms of a house on a plan provided. The dialog was selected for naturalness, predictability, and distribution of reference words. (PJM)

Pinpoints three major levels of reading comprehension (literal, inferential, and evaluative) and discusses ways to develop these levels of comprehension in the subject areas through vocabulary development, the SQ3R study technique, sequencing, the cloze procedure, group prediction, modeling reading outcomes, and worksheets. Also discusses the…

A study was carried out to compare the degree of intelligibility between native and non-native varieties of educated English. (CFM)

An operant-based corrective reading program was established to study effectiveness of peer tutoring for 69 reading deficient second- to fourth-grade students who were matched on measures of initial reading ability and level of reading retardation and randomly assigned to three groups (peer tutoring only, peer tutoring with home based…