Topics of the three essays in this bulletin--which originally appeared in the February, 1963, issue of "College English" and the March and April, 1963, issues of the "English Journal"--are (1) how the materials of language and poetry and the perceptions of individual minds are employed in examining a poem; (2) procedures for reading and…

This study investigated the effects of using three strategies for reading on the comprehension of fiction and nonfiction selections by fifth graders. The subjects (N=270) were grouped into three different reading ability levels and randomly assigned to the three strategies for reading: (1) subjects read the entire selection and then answered 10…

The major problem investigated was the effectiveness of cloze procedure as a predictor of a student's ability to comprehend social studies materials when compared with I.Q. scores, previous social studies grades, and standardized reading test scores. As a secondary purpose, the effectiveness of rewritten social studies materials as a means of…

An overall survey is made of the relationship between reading comprehension and rate, flexibility, and study skills as shown by research studies, and the following conclusions are drawn. (1) There are mostly positive correlations between rate and comprehension, but the amount depends on the test groups, reading materials, measuring instruments,…

The effects of training on internal reading flexibility (intra-article flexibility) and the relationships between such flexibility and overall reading speed, reading comprehension, anxiety level, and introversion-extraversion were investigated. Flexibility coefficients were computed before and after training for the total group of 255 college…

A rationale was developed for researching reading comprehension based on information gain. Previous definitions of comprehension which were reviewed included operational vs. nonoperational and skills vs. processes. Comprehension was viewed as an informational processing event which includes a constellation of cognitive and learning processes. Two…

Viewing reading as involving a continual inputting of graphic symbols and responses involving varying degrees of comprehension, 10 categories of reading behavior and/or comprehension manifested by mature adult readers were identified. The 10 categories were arranged in order from simple to complex. The validity of the hierarchy was assessed by…

The purpose of this study was to examine the interrelationships among five measures of aided reading comprehension (reading to each subject while he silently reads or follows along), intelligence, and three measures of cognitive style variables in first grade children. Thirty-four first graders, 13 boys and 21 girls, served as subjects. It was…

In this study it was hypothesized that those students classified as conservers would score significantly higher on cloze passages related to the concepts of number, quantity, and volume than would those students classified as non-conservers. The subjects consisted of a group of 42 sixth grade urban public school students judged to be of low socio…

This study was designed to investigate whether the comprehension skills of the better readers in second and third grade could be significantly increased through the use of a reading enrichment program as an adjunct to their classroom reading program. Subjects were 64 pupils in three second-grade and four third-grade classes in a middle-class…

The effects of arousal on literal and inferential comprehension of text over short- and long-term retention intervals were studied using 369 elementary school children. Putative arousal manipulations were of two types: expectation and deviations from expectation as established by an advance organizer followed by text that for different…

Subjects within one reading level only were included in this study to determine reflective and impulsive subject groups on the basis of Matching Familiar Figures (MFF) test time and error scores within that reading level rather than over all levels, to use the same reading test passages for all subjects, and then to apply statistical tests of…

The purposes of this paper are (1) to assist Career Development for Children Project (CDCP) writers in developing more readable curriculum materials and (2) to better identify research and development priorities. The first part surveys two contrasting methods that have been found useful in predicting the readability of written texts. The second…

This paper reports on one study in a research program trying to extend existing findings on elaborative mediation in paired-associate learning into the domain of prose learning. Ten third graders and 22 fourth graders from an inner-city Catholic school served as subjects. A paraphrase recall pretest was administered which involved reading a…

This study was undertaken to evaluate auding as an aid to comprehension of literature for college students and to gain a measure of students' interest in the use of tape recordings. Twenty-four subjects enrolled in the Survey of English at Chesapeake College were divided into three achievement level groups on the basis of their college grade-point…