Developed around the concept that a modern language arts program is planned to help students use language and understand the nature of language, this curriculum guide for grades five and six offers pedagogical approaches to comprehending ideas through listening, observing, and reading, and to expressing ideas through speaking and writing. Sections…

This study investigated the effect of black dialect upon the comprehension of standard reading material by using 50 third-grade students. A sentence repetition test was administered individually to each subject to select pupils for either the standard or the dialect group. Subjects were tested for oral comprehension and silent reading…

The Generic Skills project is a research study being conducted in Canada to determine those overt and covert behaviors which are fundamental to the performance of many tasks and sub-tasks performed in a wide range of occupations. Data aimed at determining the needs for adult education and training have been obtained in two surveys. In the first,…

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of specific instructional strategies in listening upon the reading comprehension of first grade pupils. Listening instruction was hypothesized to positively affect reading comprehension. Eighteen first grade classrooms were randomly assigned to three treatment groups: (1) specific listening…

Designed to measure the level of understanding of literal meaning attained by students in grades 5-8 through the use of syntactic clues within written standard English sentences, this silent reading test reveals a student's strengths and weaknesses in syntactic knowledge and thus helps the teacher plan a program of instruction. Reliability…

Designed to determine to what degree the reader's awareness of recognition of certain structural aspects of written English is a factor in reading comprehension, this measure defines four word classes (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) in syntactical or formal terms rather than in semantic terms. Each item in the test consists of two sentences:…

Designed to provide a scale for assessing the quality of personal or imaginative writing, the Evaluation Scale for Personal Writing (ESPW) consists of a group of twenty-eight imaginative essays written by British fifteen year olds. These essays have been arranged in order of quality by an eight member sub-committee of the London Association for…

The major purpose of this study was to investigate developmental patterns of understandings of four types of selected phenomena possessed by economically and racially different boys and girls. A total of 64 boys and girls, 32 blacks and 32 whites, were selected from Head Start, kindergarten, nursery, and primary schooling environments and then…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether repeated sessions of reading practice within the home, directed by a person who would support and encourage the pupil, would result in a significant increase in reading achievement. Eight boys and eight girls were selected at random from each of six second grade classrooms in two elementary…

Students who work in small discussion groups will not significantly surpass those who study under teacher direction in terms of mean learning achievement, cognitive operations such as comprehension and application, or acquired learning. This conclusion resulted from a study of learning in two classroom situations, one utilizing teacher-directed…

This paper discusses some of the findings and needs of reading research. The areas of research study mentioned include word boundaries, letter names, preschool reading, teacher questioning, critical reading and Negro dialects. Researchers cited include Dolores Durkin, Frank Guszak, Jay Samuels, Guy Bond, A. Sterl Artley, Edward Fry, and Robert…

This book discusses the nature of individual differences, eye movements, readiness to read, problems of testing and measurement, and remedial reading teaching techniques. This 1973 revised edition contains two new papers by the author and an extensive introduction by David Mackay. The contents include: (1) "The Contemporary Challenge: Reading in a…

Through a descriptive analysis of the oral reading behavior of three groups of readers, this study compared the oral reading behavior of proficient readers with that of readers who use less effective reading strategies. The subjects were five proficient second grade readers, five weak sixth grade readers and five highly proficient sixth grade…

This study investigated the relationships between three testing techniques and performance on four dimensions of oral reading performance. The three testing techniques were careful reading, reading for specific purposes, and reading for general purposes. The four dimensions of oral reading performance on which comparisons were made involved oral…

The primary purpose of this study was to provide a partial basis for business education teachers to give relevance and direction to individual student learning by developing and improving student reading and study skills. The professional literature from the past fifteen years that dealt with reading and study skills improvement of students in…