Reports on an investigation of the effects of interspersed adjunct questions on recall of fifth grade children classified as good or poor comprehenders. (AA)

Kindergarten measures of intelligence, auditory perception, visual perception, and associative learning were used to predict three aspects of reading achievement (word attack, word recognition, and comprehension) at the end of Grades 1, 2, and 3 for 79 Ss. (Author)

Suggests that teachers develop techniques to teach students strategies used by good comprehenders: paraphrasing passages, sifting out meaningful word clusters, searching for supportive examples, and making deductions. (MKM)

Finds four correlations between anxiety state/trait, type of practice, and reading comprehension: ego-involving instructions increase the anxiety state of students with high-anxiety traits; students with low-anxiety traits demonstrate superior reading comprehension; low-anxiety states produce higher comprehension test scores; distributed practice…

Outlines a taxonomy of reading comprehension skills that teachers can use to develop questioning techniques that are flexible enough to reflect the nature of the reading materials. (RL)

Lists and annotates 21 journal articles that discuss the teaching of reading. Among the topics dealth with in the articles are the teaching of beginning reading and reading comprehension, reading instruction and the law, reading diagnosis, and the use of the psycholinguistic approach at the secondary level. (GW)

The Junior Grade Books (JGB) Reading and Discussion program conducted in public libraries and classrooms is described. The purpose of the program is to improve reading comprehension skills while introducing readers to literary classics. The training of program leaders and how to organize a JGB group are also discussed. (JPF)

Six years ago the late Commissioner of Education, James Allen, proclaimed the "Right-to-Read" as the educational target of the current decade. The object of this program was to develop reading skills among Americans lacking such skills. An evaluation of that program was presented. (Author/RK)

The various influences on educational performance, and, in particular, the influence of language are examined in relation to under-achievement of West Indian children in British schools. (Author/RK)

Strategies are suggested for shifting the emphasis of remedial reading instruction from isolated skill instruction to reading in context. (MKM)

Nursing students who believed that they were in control of their own destinies performed better on a reading comprehension test when a woman administered the test than when a man administered the test. (MKM)

This experiment sought to determine whether students writing in their mother tongue (Hebrew) and thus deprived of the opportunity to be exposed to English through writing could achieve the same reading comprehension level as their peers who write English throughout the course. (SW)

Compared was the relative effectiveness of a phonetic approach (Distar) and use of a special alphabet (Johnny Right-to-Read) to reading instruction for 24 second grade children with low levels of reading readiness. (Author/SBH)

This article considers the ramifications of early reading failure within the context of J. Chall's five-stage model of reading development: (1) initial decoding, (2) fluency, (3) reading for meaning, (4) relationships and viewpoints, and (5) synthesis. Instructional implications include learning disabled students' special need for good instruction…

A discussion of reading comprehension examines the notion of "mediators," the motivational, contextual, and referential factors that contribute to comprehension, and explores the means for introducing these factors into the second language classroom. (MSE)