Three sets of instructional materials were prepared by third graders after working with and responding to similar experimental materials in reading and social science. The curriculum begins at a point when most children are able to read, however, supplementary listening passages and other readiness training and assessment is provided for those who…

This handbook is intended to give the working teacher some background and practical suggestions for helping adults become effective, independent readers. Chapters One and Two give a brief overview of adult literacy training and look at some of the basic human needs of adults who have returned to school. Chapters Three and Four define the basic…

This book is a compilation of articles that are related to reading instruction. The materials covered in the seventeen chapters are: "Perspectives on Reading,""The Psychology and Psycholinguistics of Reading,""Reading Readiness,""Beginning Reading,""Measuring Reading Outcomes and Determining Needs,""Grouping for Effective Reading…

Sentence patterns are often crucial to the degree of understanding a child derives from the printed page, and if he is to fully understand what he reads, he must be able to analyze the written language patterns in which the information is conveyed. This study analyzed selected passages from three grade 4 basal reader series to determine which…

This paper, presented at the eighteenth annual convention of the International Reading Association, identifies the problems that reading may create in teaching social studies from kindergarten through grade twelve. Three alternatives are suggested for use when reading becomes difficult: (1) change the reading level of the material, (2) change the…

In an attempt to demonstrate that the mismatch between the grammatical features of Black dialect and Standard English grammar used in children's reading materials is a source of reading interference, 67 second and third grade Black dialect speaking children each read orally a text written in Black dialect and a parallel text written in Standard…

For 6 years, three intensive reading instructional teams (IRIT's) provided intensive small-group reading instruction to school children within Hartford's validated target areas. A total of 363 children were assisted by the overall program. The centers also provided facilities for the diagnosis of reading problems, for team teaching, language…

AN INVESTIGATION TO DEVELOP PRACTICAL AND ECONOMICAL MEANS FOR DESCRIBING READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS AND TO DETERMINE TEACHER STRATEGIES FOR DEVELOPING THESE COMPREHENSION SKILLS WAS CONDUCTED. THE "READING COMPREHENSION INVENTORY" WAS DEVELOPED FROM A SYNTHESIS OF ELEMENTS COMMONLY AGREED TO CONSTITUTE READING COMPREHENSION. THE…

The purposes of this booklet are to acquaint both mathematics teachers and reading teachers with some skills which students need for effectively reading the language of mathematics and to provide sample activities which may be used as an integral part of the mathematics class, in an effort to help students develop those skills. Since mathematics…

Intensive studies of children's miscues in oral reading were conducted from 1965 through 1974 by researchers at Wayne State University. This volume contains the concepts and assumptions underlying that research, the basic research design, the complex nature and function of the Goodman Taxonomy of Oral Reading Miscues, the findings of the research,…

Results from the first and second rounds of the reading assessment conducted by the National Assessment of Educational Progress are discussed and compared, with conclusions based on comments by a panel of six reading specialists. Changes in reading ability between the 1970-1971 and 1974-1975 school years are dependent on the age of the pupils and…

In this paper early and later development of knowledge of syntactic structures and this development in language-disordered children are reviewed. Theories that have been presented to account for syntactic development (cognitive, cognitive-semantic and social-environmental) are discussed. Early developmental data indicate that there is not a…

The multiple choice technique can test written and oral comprehension and linguistic competence at beginning and intermediate levels. Examples of test items concerning sounds, stress, vocabulary, and structures are presented, and brief comments on the items are included. (SW)

Concludes that both able and less able eighth grade readers who read text versions in which key concepts and the relations between them had been explained thoroughly learned significantly more word meanings than did students who read any of the other versions. (FL)

Analysis of the performance of 257 adult English-as-a-second-language students on six language tests (multiple choice, cloze, listening, reading, structure) indicated that age was a significant factor on listening and structure tests and high school graduation affected performance on all tests but one listening test. (Author/CB)