A METHOD OF VOCABULARY STUDY USED AS A TOOL RATHER THAN AS A COMPLETE VOCABULARY PROGRAM HELPS STUDENTS INVESTIGATE ANY WORD AND HELPS CLARIFY KEY OR DIFFICULT WORDS IN AN ASSIGNMENT. THE SEMANTIC LEVELS OF DEFINITION-MAKING ARE EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED BY THE TEACHER'S ASKING THE STUDENTS WHAT CLASS OF THINGS A CERTAIN WORD STANDS FOR AND HOW…

A DISCUSSION OF THE PURPOSES AND PROBLEMS OF TEACHING POETRY TO SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IS PRESENTED. TEACHING TECHNIQUES ARE SUGGESTED. SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS ARE GIVEN FOR PRESENTING "FOG,""THE HIGHWAYMAN," AND "THE BELLS." THIS ARTICLE APPEARS IN "JOURNAL OF READING," VOLUME 10, APRIL 1967. (RH)

THIS PAPER ON THE JOPLIN PLAN INCLUDES AN OUTLINE OF HISTORICAL MOVEMENTS LEADING TO THE JOPLIN PLAN AS IT IS KNOWN TODAY, A DESCRIPTION OF THE PLAN AS IT IS USED IN JOPLIN, A SURVEY OF VARIOUS STUDIES WHICH HAVE EMPLOYED THE PLAN, AND A DISCUSSION OF ITS ADVANTAGES AND LIMITATIONS. TYPICALLY, THE JOPLIN PLAN GROUPS MIDDLE-GRADE CHILDREN FOR…

THE PUPILS IN A FIRST-GRADE CLASS IN MESA, ARIZONA, MADE THEIR OWN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE WORDS THEY COULD READ WHICH WERE NOT IN THE BASAL READERS. THE LIST TOTALED 2,124 WORDS. NOT EVERY CHILD KNEW ALL THE WORDS, BUT SOME KNEW ALL, AND ALL KNEW SOME. THE STUDY IS PRESENTED AS AN ANSWER TO THE STATEMENT BY PROFESSOR ARTHUR S. TRACE, JR., THAT…

THE INDIVIDUALIZED READING TECHNIQUE WAS EMPLOYED WITH A CLASS OF 16 EDUCABLE PRIMARY CHILDREN AGED 6 THROUGH 10 YEARS IN FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA, TO COUNTERACT AN INITIAL ATTITUDE OF TOTAL INDIFFERENCE TOWARD READING. BOOKS WITH HIGH INTEREST LEVELS AND WITH PREPRIMER VOCABULARY WERE PROVIDED BY THE LIBRARY AND WERE ATTRACTIVELY PRESENTED BY THE…

A VARIETY OF ARRANGEMENTS, ACTIVITIES, AND GROUPING POSSIBILITIES WITHIN THE CLASSROOM USING THE INDIVIDUALIZED READING PROGRAM (IRP) ARE PRESENTED. SEVERAL MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE INDIVIDUALIZED READING PROGRAM ARE MENTIONED, ESPECIALLY THE NOTION THAT CLASS SUBGROUPS ARE NOT PERMISSIBLE WITHIN THE IRP STRUCTURE AND THAT THE TEACHER-PUPIL…

SOME RECENT INNOVATIONS IN TEACHING LANGUAGE WERE INVESTIGATED. THE TECHNIQUES OF PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION WERE MERGED WITH THE USE OF AN ELECTRIC TYPEWRITER TO PROVIDE THE MEANS OF TEACHING READING TO YOUNG DEAF CHILDREN. DEAF CHILDREN, RANGING IN AGE FROM THREE TO SEVEN YEARS, PARTICIPATED IN THIS STUDY. AS A GROUP, THEY TENDED TO BE OF AVERAGE…

THE USEFULNESS OF PHONIC RULES IN READING INSTRUCTION BEYOND THE FOURTH-GRADE LEVEL WAS INVESTIGATED TO ASCERTAIN IF THE CONCLUSIONS REACHED BY THEODORE CLYMER AND REPORTED IN THE JANUARY 1963 ISSUE OF "THE READING TEACHER" WERE VALID WHEN APPLIED TO A MORE REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF VOCABULARY. LISTS OF ALL POSSIBLE WORDS (FROM A SAMPLE…

STUDY OBJECTIVES WERE--(1) TO ANALYZE 5,000 ENGLISH WORDS TO FIND THE UNDERLYING PATTERNS IN THE SPELLING-TO-SOUND RELATIONSHIPS, (2) TO DEVELOP A MODEL FOR MAPPING SPELLING-TO-SOUND CORRESPONDENCES WHICH NOT ONLY DISPLAYS IN AN ECONOMICAL FASHION THE UNDERLYING SPELLING PATTERNS, BUT ALSO REFLECTS THE SPELLING-TO-SOUND HABITS OF THE MATURE…

A frequency count of the syllables in an edited list of the 5,000 most common English words generated an unweighted list of the most common 322 syllables in the words and a list of 290 syllables weighted by the frequency of occurrence of words of which the syllables were constituents. The unweighted list contained 222 nonword syllables and 100…

Twenty-three studies in reading, each cited as exemplary by at least two of the approximately 100 reading teachers who responded to a 1978 survey, are listed in this paper. The studies are listed according to the three categories in which respondents were asked to place them: historical and longitudinal, descriptive, and experimental. For each…

This study compared intensive and less intensive corrective reading instruction at the community college level. Group I students received 50 periods of instruction in ten weeks; Group II received theirs in 20 weeks. At the end of instruction, ten additional weeks were given to see if the skills were maintained. The hypothesis that there would be…

Research on the function of color in instruction and learning is reviewed, and the rationale for its use in instructional materials and as an aid to learning is examined. Three points are made: (1) on the basis of research results, it is not yet possible to prescribe the use of color cues in instruction; (2) color is presently being used in…

Forty-nine reading games were designed by reading aides in the ESEA Title I Primary Reading Aide Program in Omaha, Nebraska for practice and mastery of specific reading skills at the primary level. Games are listed under these skill areas: alphabet, consonants, digraphs, rhyming words, sight words, and vowels. An illustration is provided for each…

The purpose of this study was to determine the strength of the relationship between syllabication ability and reading comprehension. Pre- and posttests using the syllabication and comprehension subtests of the Stanford Diagnostic Reading Tests were administered to 275 middle school children involved in corrective and developmental reading…