This study investigated whether reading achievement differed between bilingual and monolingual students in the fifth, sixth, and seventh grades in several Texas schools where the Czech-American culture is significant. Selected bilinguals and monolinguals were compared in the factors of sex, age, grade level, reading vocabulary scores, reading…

This study investigated the efficacy of four different reading treatments for reading disabled children. EMG biofeedback training for suppression of subvocalization and individualized reading instruction were combined in an orthogonal design to assess their independent and combined effects on subvocalization, comprehension, and vocabulary mastery.…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of inservice training of high school staff members on their ability to apply content area reading instructional skills selected by them as areas in which they need and want to improve. The hypothesis for the study was that there is a significant difference in the ability to apply…

This study was designed to assess whether negative transfer in children's paired-associate learning could be reduced by changing the levels of meaning at which stimuli were encoded on the two lists. It was hypothesized that changes in meaning levels from a first to a second list would result in less interference than conditions where stimuli…

The annotated bibliography on reading instruction for the mentally handicapped contains approximately 60 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents published from 1962 to 1974 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC).…

This book of readings pertinent to reading instruction follows the organization of Wilson's text, "Diagnostic and Remedial Reading," and can supplement that or other reading texts as well as serve as a source book for divergent ideas in the field of reading. Topics include classroom, clinical, and noneducational diagnosis; readiness, vocabulary,…

The purpose of this study was to compare the performance of the Indian children in grades two and three of an integrated school in southern Saskatchewan with the performance of their non-Indian classmates on tests of listening comprehension, reading comprehension, auditory discrimination, and IQ. The Durrell Listening-Reading Series provided…

Conceptualizations of the reading process and the nature of comprehension are discussed in relation to the Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) Beginning Reading Program. A method of syntactic analysis is proposed to help identify segments of meaning in reading materials. Components for comprehension assessment and instruction based on auch an…

A functional approach to reading was investigated in seventh grade social studies classes to determine the effectiveness of guiding students in the adaptation of two essential comprehension abilities needed to read the text materials. Specifically, the investigation evaluated the use of reading guides prepared to aid students in the recognition of…

Five papers given at the International Reading Association conference held in conjunction with a National Council for the Social Studies conference in 1968 are presented in this work. Although each paper is addressed to a different subtopic, there is the common theme of the role that reading can play in social studies instruction. The subtopics…

The reading difficulty levels of publications in five military occupational specialities (MOSs) were determined by the Flesch and Dale-Chall readability formulas. Readability levels were compared with the reading abilities of low and average mental aptitude men working in the MOSs. The comparison indicates that, in all MOSs, the average…

The major focus of this investigation was concerned with discovering differences in the substrata-factor patterns which underlie speed and/or power of reading in various known groups: boys versus girls, bright versus dull, fast versus slow readers, and powerful versus nonpowerful readers. Subjects were 211 boys and 189 girls selected at random…

Uses of the cloze procedure for both diagnosis and for practice exercises for improving reading comprehension in a junior college reading program are described. Every tenth concept word--nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs--was omitted from expository prose selections of about 350 words each, and the reader was asked to write the missing word in…

Four stages of development emerging from a review of the history and the research in the content areas are noted: (1) 300 years with little change in the basis for selecting the curriculum content, (2) a call for research during World War I, (3) study groups airing ideas about subject-matter organization in the 1920's and 1930's, and (4) the…

During a 6-month period, 90 fourth-grade pupils were tutored in reading by elementary education majors as part of their regular classroom instruction. Work was done individually or in small groups 4 days weekly for hour per tutoring session, and all materials used were on each child's instructional reading level. A control group of 90 pupils…