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Putz, Linda – 1987
A study investigated whether there would be a significant improvement in the reading comprehension test scores of hearing-impaired secondary school students if their content area subjects included closed captioned television lessons. Subjects, eight students in an experimental group and five students in a control group, were grouped according to…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Hearing Impairments, Learning Problems, Reading Achievement
Download full textWilkinson, Ian; And Others – 1986
Results reported by Leinhardt, Zigmond, and Cooley (1981) have been interpreted as support for increased silent reading in classroom reading instruction. G. Leinhardt and colleagues examined a causal model of classroom processes influencing reading achievement and found that time spent in silent, rather than oral, reading was positively related to…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Processes, Models
Long, Patricia C. – 1986
A study investigated whether instructors need to undertake in-depth training in miscue analysis as reflected in the Reading Miscue Inventory (RMI) to carry out competent evaluations of children's reading ability, or whether training in the Reading Appraisal Guide (RAG) can be equally effective. The study was carried out at Melbourne College in…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Measurement Techniques, Miscue Analysis
Bruce, Bertram – 1985
Noting that the idea of linguistic case has evolved from an account of noun affixes (surface case) to an account of how syntactic relations between noun phrases and sentences map into deep relations between objects and events (deep case), this paper examines the notion of deep case as it applies to natural language understanding. Following a…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Cognitive Processes, Computer Uses in Education, Language Processing
Teeter, Phyllis Anne; Smith, Philip L. – 1986
The final report of the 2-year project describes the development and validation of microcomputer software to help assess reading disabled elementary grade children and to provide basic reading instruction. Accomplishments of the first year included: design of the STAR Neuro-Cognitive Assessment Program which includes a reproduction of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Assisted Testing, Elementary Education
Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc., Jacksonville, FL. – 1986
The Danville, Illinois, District #118 Chapter 1 program is described in terms of: (1) district information; (2) program and project information; (3) goals and objectives; (4) coordination with regular and special school programs; (5) parent and community involvement; (6) professional development and training; (7) leadership; (8) instructional…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Exceptional Persons
International Reading Association, Newark, DE. – 1986
Intended for use by individuals, teacher education institutions, private and corporate educational, vocational, and social agencies, and the general public, this guide presents the International Reading Association's recommendations for the preparation of teachers concerning knowledge of the reading process and reading instruction. The document's…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reading Consultants, Reading Instruction, Reading Processes
Chew, Charles, Ed.; And Others – 1986
Focusing on reader response in the classroom, the works collected in this book represent the results of a five-week summer institute in which 25 middle school, high school, and college teachers studied the principles and applications of literature instruction. The following essays are included: an introduction by G. Garber; "An Overview of the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Literary Criticism
Tei, Ebo; Stewart, Oran – Forum for Reading, 1985
To be effective learners, students should know about the state or level of their learning and the success of the strategies they are using, so that when they misunderstand a concept they can do additional reading or consult outside sources. Traditionally, textbook study has been taught through the use of so-called formula techniques, where the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Content Area Reading, Higher Education, Metacognition
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1986
Consisting of testimony and prepared materials presented to a joint session of House and Senate subcommittees, this report deals with the problem of illiteracy in the United States. The report contains statements from Richard C. Anderson, director of the Center for the Study of Reading; Samuel L. Banks, president of the Association for the Study…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Community Role, Employer Attitudes, Government Role
Levin, Joel R.; And Others – 1981
A study combined a simple mnemonic counting system with the keyword method to determine whether the keyword vocabulary methods can be effectively combined with other mnemonic strategies to facilitate coding of numerically ordered information. This system was then taught to 48 eighth-grade students in the context of learning the names and numbers…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Grade 8
Baumann, James F. – 1984
A study was conducted to apply what is known about how expository text structure variables enhance main idea comprehension and to determine if restructuring content textbook passages improves such comprehension. Original texts were rewritten to be more "considerate" as follows: the paragraph main ideas were rewritten and placed in the…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Readability
Douthitt, Frieda – 1985
Since 1965, first through Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and now through Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act, funds have been allocated to supplement regular classroom instruction for children achieving below grade level. Together, Title I and Chapter 1 form a 20-year continuum of a concentrated,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Education, Individualized Instruction, Mathematical Enrichment
Hanjian, Linda – 1985
A study was conducted to determine whether the expressed reading interests of third grade students corresponded with the topics in their basal readers. Students indicated on an interest survey the kinds of stories they liked to read. Two fourth grade basal readers were analyzed--"Time to Wonder" by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, and "Clearing Paths"…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Childhood Interests, Comparative Analysis
Nelms, Virginia C.; Newby, Maybelle R. – 1985
Three processes form the basis for interactive teaching--a model recommending that teachers guide students in thinking before reading, interacting with the text, and reflecting and reacting to the text materials. Successful reading often depends upon the ability of students to relate what they already know to what they are about to read.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Interaction, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools
