A computer-based Eye-Movement Controlled Display System was developed for the study of perceptual processes in reading. Studies were conducted to identify the region from which skilled readers pick up various types of visual information during a fixation while reading. The results indicated that the subjects acquired word length pattern…

An investigation of the relationships between form and comprehension of written materials by eleventh grade students is reported in this paper. Students were asked to manipulate two variables of spacing and punctuation in a consistently administered and marked exercise. Students also completed a comprehension test on the exercise they had just…

This study investigated the relationship between sex-typing of reading and reading comprehension achievement in third grade boys, and sex-typing of reading and reading choice behavior in kindergarten boys. The study also explored the effects of sex and interest of test materials on reading comprehension achievement in third graders. Data were…

This monograph is composed of two papers, one which discusses a study undertaken to examine standardized reading tests in relation to pupils' performance and another which contains samples of materials that could be made available to parents by their children's teachers or by community leaders. The research project analyzed the scores of 61…

The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score of any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…

The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score of any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…

The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score of any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…

This study investigated the reading comprehension of good and poor readers in the second grade on reading passages with and without illustration. Eighty subjects were selected from children attending the second grade in the public schools of a midwestern city of approximately 200,000. For the purposes of this study children scoring within the top…

Two sources of information are involved in reading; the visual information picked up by the eyes from the printed page and the nonvisual information, or prior knowledge, that the reader possesses. An overreliance on visual information leads to an overloading of the cognitive process involved in reading and loss in comprehension. Overreliance on…

This guidebook suggests skills, ideas, and activities which should be helpful to the teacher in working with youngsters in the area of reading. Important specifics to be considered in a tutorial situation include: (1) being punctual with appointments, (2) creating stories and games appealing to the interest of the tutee, (3) being encouraging, (4)…

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effectiveness of training students to generate their own questions prior to reading. The subjects were 116 seventh grade students enrolled in a junior high school developmental reading course. Three groups were formed: subjects receiving experimental treatment A, subjects receiving…

Syntactic abilities in oral language of twenty normal and twenty dyslexic second grade boys were investigated. The major hypothesis was that dyslexic children with reading comprehension difficulties are deficient in oral syntax. The concept of syntax was subdivided into five categories: (1) recognition of melody pattern, (2) recognition of…

Prepared by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, this volume contains approximately 50 percent of the total number of reading exercises administered during the assessment. Exercises are ordered by release number, which indicates the major theme, exercise within the theme, and the exercise part for multiple-part exercises. In addition,…

Reported is a study to determine if amplifying elementary reading material through the use of exemplars (based on Ausubel's theory of meaningful verbal learning) would reduce conceptual difficulty and thereby increase reading comprehension. Reading passages were developed for three different elementary science concepts with three levels of…

This paper focuses on the Guided Reading Procedure (GRP) as a means of improving a literal level skill (unaided recall) and an attitudinal factor (accuracy in comprehension). Also discussed are some features of the GRP which suggest its possible value for fostering such other attitudinal and higher order skills as "recognizing implicit…