Auditory conceptualization as an important factor in literacy development is investigated in this study. Earlier research with the Lindamood Auditory Conceptualization (LAC) Test identified this factor at each grade level, kindergarten through grade twelve, and delineated a LAC Test breakpoint score which was sharply discriminative of reading…

The purpose of this investigation was to study the effects of a multimedia program of vocabulary development on the reading achievement of adults. An experimental and a control group were randomly chosen from Air Force personnel enrolled in the Prep remedial reading program. The instruments used in this study were: The United States Armed Service…

To be used in the development of reading curricula in the local school setting, this list of generic objectives is part of a set produced by the System for Pupil Program Evaluation and Development (SPPED) which includes criterion objectives and content lists for the specification of generic objectives. In addition to the objectives, this…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether students who receive instruction in reading by using the cloze procedure would gain more knowledge of business concepts and improve their reading skills in an introductory business course when compared with students who had not had similar instruction in reading. Sixty-seven junior college…

This study determined the effectiveness of a rapid reading program in improving comprehension and rate of approximately 300 fifth and seventh grade students. Repeated measures analyses of variance were used to compare changes in rate and comprehension during an eight week rapid reading program with three groups of students: those instructed by a…

Twenty-eight fourth graders, categorized as having high or low conceptual awareness, were used in this study to examine the effect of conceptual background on overt reading behavior; to compare overt reading behavior to post-reading performance; to analyze the relationship between overt reading behavior and cloze test behavior and performance; to…

This study was designed to determine the relationship of selected readiness variables to achievement in reading at the second grade level. The readiness variables were environment, mathematics, letters and sounds, aural comprehension, visual perception, auditory perception, vocabulary and concepts, word meaning, listening, matching, alphabet,…

Thirteen seventh grade students who ranked low in reading achievement on either or both vocabulary skills and comprehension skills based on their Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test scores were the participants in this project. A program of instruction was developed that included four behavioral objectives in the areas of reading comprehension,…

This study examined the effects of two instructional practices on cognitive response to three sonnets at the sense level of comprehension. The subjects were twelfth grade students in an elective English program who had not had work in poetry that year before the experiment. One teaching method dealt with morphological, lexical, and syntactical…

Microfiche copies of 112 children's trade books and two Xerox Classmate Readers were put into three fourth-grade classrooms to assess their effect on children's reading achievement, attitudes toward reading, the the use of library books. The microfiche copies of the trade books were matched title-for-title with hardbound books shelved with the…

At an urban, open-door institution like Metropolitan State College in Denver, Colorado, many students enter college with some dificiencies in basic reading and writing skills. Therefore, the Reading Department at Metro State has attempted to meet the needs of the entire college through some multidisciplinary approaches to teaching reading. Reading…

The purposes of this study were to replicate the effects of question placement, either before or after, on the acquisition of critical and incidental material with grade school subjects and to determine the effects of paragraph length on learning with children. Two variables, question placement (BA) and pacing (PL), were combined in a 2 x 4…

This course is intended as preparation for taking a civil service examination in office clerical skills; it is also intended to provide employment skills for clerical office workers. The course typically is given in two-hour sessions, once a week for 10 to 12 weeks. It covers the following topics: grammar and language usage, spelling, vocabulary…

This is a report on the first year of a pilot program for building reading comprehension in all subject areas, conducted in six school districts located in a rural area near Phoenix, Arizona, during the school year 1972-1973. Over 50 percent of the high school students were bilingual or bi-cultural. In order to remedy reading retardation, teachers…

The purpose of this study was to increase students' ability to locate specific information and to distinguish between facts and opinions, major ideas and minor details, and favorable and unfavorable statements in reading a newspaper. A workbook containing a minimum of ten exercises, a mastery skill sheet, and six supplementary exercises in each…