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Download full textSpencer, Gary D. – 1970
This study focuses on some common personality patterns and their influence on reading. Two commonly observed personality types, the compulsive and the hysterical, found at opposite ends of the continuum of personality patterns are discussed, and the types of children which result from parents with these personalities are described. It is noted…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Parent Child Relationship, Performance Factors, Personality
Wallen, Carl J.; Wisely, Steven R. – 1970
The major focuses of this reading program survey were staff preparation, instructional techniques, educational materials, and pupil achievement. Data were obtained from 47 teachers (14 men and 33 women) who represented reading instruction in grades 1 through 8. The following items were analyzed in detail: personnel description (age, sex, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Materials, Program Evaluation, Reading Achievement
Spencer, Gary D. – 1970
Statements of opinion from black and white citizens about elementary, secondary, and college-level reading instruction and learning programs are discussed. Relevant objective data are listed for each point in an attempt to clarify what is known from research about the status of reading instruction and the needs of learners, both black and white.…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Community, College Curriculum, Elementary School Curriculum
Dunn, Barbara J. – 1970
The capability of the very young child to learn selected reading skills and the effectiveness of the television medium to present such skills were investigated. Television as the facilitator of such an instructional program was viewed as appropriate because of its ability to reach so many children, especially the disadvantaged. Ninety children who…
Descriptors: Closed Circuit Television, Disadvantaged, Educational Television, Experimental Curriculum
Pfau, Donald W. – 1967
The premises of this article are that the teacher should be the prime developer of curriculum and that total staff involvement in curriculum development must be a reality if instructional improvement in reading is to be effected. With this in mind, eight musts for teachers are set forth and expounded upon. (1) The teacher must set the scope of the…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Curriculum Development, Individual Differences, Reading Instruction
North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh. Dept. of Adult Education. – 1969
The major goal of the Developmental and Demonstration Project in Adult Basic Education at North Carolina State University is to identify, develop, and evaluate innovative materials and instructional systems that will accelerate and enhance the learning process in undereducated adults through the use of modern educational technology and media.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology
Morrison, Coleman; And Others – 1970
This study, part of a larger Comparing Reading Approaches in First-Grade Teaching (CRAFT) Project, was concerned with the subsequent reading performances of disadvantaged urban black children who were identified as having some word recognition ability at the time they entered first grade. All the children in this study, early readers as well as…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Disadvantaged, Early Reading, Economically Disadvantaged
Tanyzer, Harold J.; And Others – 1968
The purpose of this study was to investigate the longitudinal effects of i/t/a and T.O. instruction on students' reading, spelling, and language abilities at the end of third grade. It was primarily concerned with determining whether the effects of early reading instruction, which were not statistically evident at the end of second grade, became…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Grade 3, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Cullinan, Bernice E.; And Others – 1969
An exploratory study to discover the relationships between preferred learning modalities and differentiated presentations of reading tasks was conducted in a low socioeconomic, predominantly Puerto Rican public school in New York City, with 106 first-grade children as subjects. Preferred learning modality (auditory, visual, or kinesthetic) was…
Descriptors: Auditory Training, Beginning Reading, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 1
Farr, Roger – 1969
Research literature on measurement and evaluation in reading is described under six chapter headings: Measurement in reading: general perspectives, Problems in measuring reading subskills, Methods for assessing reading achievement, Assessing growth, Measurement of reading-related variables, and Summary: test uses and research needs. Following each…
Descriptors: Measurement, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement, Reading Diagnosis
King, M. Sylvester – 1968
This report evaluates a Summer Teacher Training Institute in poverty areas in New York City. The program encompassed two distinct types of training: (1) the Reading Institutes, designed to train reading teachers for the elementary and junior high schools in disadvantaged areas, and (2) the Teacher-Training Institute, set up to train both…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Elementary Schools, Institutes (Training Programs), Junior High Schools
Van Allen, Roach – 1965
The importance of building positive attitudes and habits in developing successful reading experiences is discussed. In order to have positive attitudes toward himself and toward his reading, the child must acquire basic concepts about language and its relation to himself. Among these concepts are (1) I can talk about what I think about, (2) what I…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Communication Skills, Elementary Schools, Grade 1
Echols, Ivor J.; Suerken, Ernst H. – 1967
The Summer Study-Skills Program (SSSP) described in this report is sponsored by the Educational Counseling Service of the Board of National Missions, United Presbyterian Church. Under the SSSP, tenth-grade minority youth from small towns or rural areas of the southeastern and southwestern United States who are educationally disadvantaged but are…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Enrichment Activities, Minority Group Children, Reading Instruction
Robinson, H. Alan, Ed.; Thomas, Ellen Lamar, Ed. – 1969
This International Reading Association publication presents a view of the problems of reading in the content fields as they relate to the secondary school curriculum. The first part deals with the beginning and the growth of a comprehensive reading program at the University of Chicago Laboratory School. Eleven of the school's faculty provide…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Reading Consultants, Reading Instruction
Mathis, R. William – 1969
The effects of individual personality differences upon performance in the internal and external environment were investigated through the use of the Internal-External concept. Subjects were 40 grade 9 males of average intelligence (Lorge-Thorndike) whose reading achievement was within three grade levels of grade 9. Scores on the James I. E. Scale…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Grade 9, Multimedia Instruction, Personality Assessment
