This is the teacher's guide to the third and last unit in a series designed to provide the Spanish-speaking child with a complete language arts and reading program for grades 1-3. The unit focuses on the development of decoding, encoding, comprehension, and interpretation skills. The teacher's guide for the third grade workbook contains a series…

Three studies, involving 140 black third grade students reading below grade level, sought to determine whether dialect interference negatively affected reading comprehension. The first investigation found that a story could be repatterned to significantly reduce the number of miscues and minimize dialect interference between the student's oral…

PRESENTED IS AN EXPERIMENTAL OUTLINE OF A PROGRAM DESIGNED TO TEACH BASIC SKILLS NEEDED FOR WORD-RECOGNITION AND UNDERSTANDING, IN ADDITION TO OTHER ASPECTS OF TOTAL READING SKILL. PART I PRESENTS COMPONENTS OF SEQUENTIAL LEARNING IN READING SKILLS, CONSISTING OF WORD PERCEPTION, WORD IDENTIFICATION, WORD MEANING, COMPREHENSION, CRITICAL READING…

THE STANFORD READING PROJECT IS DISCUSSED IN TERMS OF ITS OPERATION, ITS FUNCTION IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SETTING, THE RATIONALE AND MAJOR COMPONENTS OF THE CURRICULUM, AND COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION (CAI). THE PROGRESS OF THE STANFORD CAI READING PROGRAM IS REPORTED WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE SCHOOL YEAR 1966-67 WHEN THE INITIAL CLASSES…

LINGUISTIC INSIGHTS AND METHODS WERE APPLIED TO READING. SIX HYPOTHESES WERE TESTED--(1) THAT EARLY READERS RECOGNIZE WORDS IN CONTEXT WHICH THEY CANNOT RECOGNIZE IN LISTS, (2) THAT THE ABILITY TO READ WITH NATURAL INTONATION IS RELATED TO COMPREHENSION, (3) THAT REGRESSIONS IN READING ARE LARGELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPROVING COMPREHENSION, (4)…

WITH EXISTING COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY, TESTS FOR SCREENING COLLEGE APPLICANTS CAN BE WRITTEN BY COMPUTERS. RESULTS OF A 72-ITEM COMPUTER-WRITTEN SYNONYMS TEST WERE COMPARED WITH THOSE OF THE ETS WIDE RANGE VOCABULARY TEST. BOTH TESTS WERE ADMINISTERED IN THE FALL OF 1965 TO ENTERING UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FRESHMEN. AT THE END OF THE FIRST SEMESTER, THESE…

THE RESULTS OF STANDARDIZED TESTS IN LANGUAGE ARTS COVERING 10 YEARS FOR GRADES NINE THROUGH 12 IN GARY, INDIANA, REVEALED THE NEED FOR A DIRECTED PROGRAM IN VOCABULARY INSTRUCTION. A 2-YEAR PILOT STUDY ON VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT USING THE DIRECT APPROACH WAS CONDUCTED AMONG 5,000 NINTH-GRADE STUDENTS. A PRETEST WAS FOLLOWED BY 20 WEEKLY LESSONS,…

THIS WORKBOOK WAS DEVELOPED IN A CURRICULUM PROJECT DESCRIBED IN VT 004 454 TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE LEARN BASIC PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS OF MECHANICS AND TECHNOLOGY. IT IS THE THIRD OF FOUR BOOKS WHICH PRESENT 30 EXERCISES DESIGNED FOR 30 CLASS PERIODS. THE EXERCISES, SIMILAR TO THOSE IN APTITUDE TESTS, COVER ABSTRACT REASONING, TECHNICAL…

THIS WORKBOOK WAS DEVELOPED IN A CURRICULUM PROJECT, DESCRIBED IN VT 004 454, TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE LEARN BASIC PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS OF MECHANICS AND TECHNOLOGY BY MEANS OF A SERIES OF APTITUDE TRAINING EXERCISES. IT IS THE LAST OF FOUR BOOKS WHICH PRESENT 30 EXERCISES DESIGNED FOR 30 CLASS PERIODS. THE EXERCISES ARE SIMILAR TO APTITUDE TEST…

THE CLOZE READABILITY PROCEDURE WAS EXAMINED TO DETERMINE ITS UTILITY AS A DEVICE FOR EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS. THE POSSIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A METHOD, WHICH INCORPORATES THE CLOZE PROCEDURE, FOR MAKING CRITERION REFERENCE TESTS OVER VERBALLY PRESENTED INSTRUCTION WAS ALSO INVESTIGATED. A DISCUSSION OF CLOZE RESEARCH,…

TRADITIONALISTS FREQUENTLY MAINTAIN THAT AUDIOLINGUAL TECHNIQUES, IN THEIR DEEMPHASIS OF GRAMMATICAL THEORY, TEND TO BE SUPERFICIAL AND UNSCHOLARLY. ADVOCATES OF THE NEWER METHODOLOGIES COUNTER BY INSISTING UPON THE NECESSITY OF WELL-CONSTRUCTED DRILL MATERIAL IN ABUNDANCE AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL. THE DIFFERENCE IN THE APPROACHES DERIVES FROM TWO…

LANGUAGE ENCODING AND DECODING PROCESSES WERE EXAMINED BY DETERMINING THE ABILITY OF SUBJECTS TO PREDICT OMISSIONS FROM A NATURAL LANGUAGE TEXT WHICH THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY PRODUCED THEMSELVES, AND BY COMPARING THIS PERFORMANCE WITH THAT OF OTHER SUBJECTS TO PREDICT OMISSIONS FROM THESE SAME TEXTS WHICH THE SECOND GROUP READ AT THE TIME OF…

Most methods of literary analysis operate at so high a level of abstraction that the basic meaning is obscured. In the classroom the temptation is to ignore the physical text and to focus attention and discussion on secondary issues which arise out of the text. A distinction needs to be made between reading literature and interpreting or analyzing…

One framework for reading instruction that focuses on the message suggests that all words can be classified as matter or relation references. This framework is applicable to the words and symbols used in mathematical symbolic sentences when they are defined as two or more names for numbers of sets joined together by a relation symbol. The use of…

A study investigated the relationship between phonological features in the oral reading of black West Indians and their reading comprehension. Subjects were 54 college students at the College of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas. Each subject was recorded reading two passages and completed two cloze tests. The tapes then were analyzed for nine…