This study attempted to determine if reading ability and grade level differences accounted for differences in the word associations and written syntactic structures of 180 selected students. The study also investigated the relationship of semantic associations and syntactic complexity. An oral, free word association test was used to measure…

Reported is the development of instructional procedures to teach learning disabled and mentally handicapped children reading skills, based on their particular verbal learning and language characteristics. Focused on is the development of prototypes of teaching procedures based on cross connecting the learning, language, and reading domains.…

The Anchor Test Study provides a means for translating a pupil's score on any one of seven widely used standardized reading tests to a corresponding score on any of the other tests for students in grades 4, 5, and 6. In addition, the study provides new estimates of alternate form reliability for each of the seven tests, provides estimates of the…

The purpose of this study was to determine relationships among verbal and nonverbal creative thinking, literal reading comprehension, intelligence, and creative oral response to a literature stimulus. The subjects were 74 black fourth grade boys and girls in three classrooms of an inner-city school. The Minnesota Tests of Creative Thinking,…

This teaching module concerns vocabulary as it relates to reading comprehension. Development of an extensive and accurate reading vocabulary is deemed essential for good comprehension. While most children have little trouble with concepts and vocabulary necessary for beginning reading (unless they speak a language which is not of the dominant…

To individualize instruction in reading, a teacher needs diagnoses of each child's strengths and weaknesses. However, obtaining this information using traditional diagnostic tools is particularly difficult and time consuming because of the variety and complexity of the skills involved. This paper proposes the use of PLATO, a computer-aided…

It has been assumed that written and spoken language contains many words and word sequences which are unnecessary for the comprehension of a message. The purpose of this research was the development and evaluation of three major telegraphic production schemes. Telegraphic prose refers to an abbreviated writing style similar to that found in…

When it is determined, as a result of testing or informal diagnosis, that a student is deficient in a particular reading skill, this taxonomy can help teacher and student together to select from a choice of materials, at the appropriate reading level, to correct the deficiency. The taxonomy is divided into five basic categories: beginning reading,…

The eight booklets included in this packet emphasize the practical techniques which can aid high school students in improving their reading skills through the use of the newspaper. Each guide contains at least one sample news article, followed by activities designed to improve a specific reading skill. Titles of the individual guides are…

The purposes of this study were to prepare a set of four annotated articles on biochemistry from "Scientific American" and compare by means of specially-designed tests these articles with their nonannotated analogues to determine which of the two types lead to greater understanding of the contents of the latter. The population was 603 chemistry…

Emphasis in this book is on diagnosis for determining the causes of the reading difficulties and the specific needs of each student and on those groups of children who are most likely to develop reading problems--the culturally disadvantaged and those with learning disabilities. Instructional guides, included throughout the book, list problems…

Assessing students' knowledge of the sequential nature of language and the extent to which they are able to relate one sentence or concept to another (preceding or following) is a task rarely measured by reading tests, despite the fact that such information would help to meet individual reading needs. One instrument which may prove useful toward…

The topic of illiteracy in the United States is discussed by five people in this transcript of "Options on Education." These five, each of whom approaches illiteracy in a different way, are George Weber, Associate Director of the Council for Basic Education; Mike Smith, Director for Essential Skills of the National Institute of…

Keeping vocabulary and content constant, it was determined whether syntactically more complex structures increase reading difficulty or whether all students, regardless of grade level, have the same syntactic skills and thus read with equal facility materials written at different syntactic maturity levels. One hundred and twenty randomly selected…

Means of aiding children when they are reading in a content field were suggested. The author pointed out that there are various structural or organizational patterns in different kinds of texts, and if students were made aware of these patterns they would have a way of preorganizing themselves to increase comprehension. The specialized content…