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Summers, Edward G. – 1979
A study of 1,242 children in 20 fifth, sixth, and seventh grade classes in Richmond, British Columbia, was undertaken over a seven-month period to discover the effects of a sustained silent reading program (SSR) on the students. Ten classes and the four schools they were in participated in the SSR group and ten classes selected from five other…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Literature Appreciation, Reading Achievement
Fredrick, Wayne; And Others – 1979
A study of 39 elementary schools in Chicago was conducted to compare two sets of schools, those whose students made above average yearly gains in reading comprehension and those whose students' reading gains were below average. These schools were compared on the proportion of time spent on task, on what the teacher and pupils did during reading…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, High Achievement, Low Achievement
Hord, Larry D. – 1976
The purpose of this dissertation was to evaluate a bilingual program using a method of longitudinal evaluation. A class of students who received instruction in grades K-2 in the Region I Bilingual Reading Project in Texas comprised the experimental group. The control group was composed of 27 older siblings of the experimental group. The control…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Elementary Education
Download full textJohns, Jerry L. – 1979
Five examples from each of eight classes of auditory stimuli were presented to 65 primary grade children to determine their metalinguistic awareness. Metalinguistic awareness describes a child's ability to understand the reading register, that special terminology used to teach reading. The children were asked to identify the auditory stimuli as…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Children, Cognitive Development, Language Ability
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Occupational Education Research. – 1978
To determine whether attendance at and time spent in industrial arts publishing activity centers effect gains in reading achievement, a study covering three years and involving more than 1,500 students in six elementary schools in New York City was undertaken. Data collected for each student included reading achievement test scores, number of…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Enrichment Activities, Industrial Arts, Interdisciplinary Approach
Brown, Byron W.; Saks, Daniel H. – 1978
Elements of economic production theory are applied to the relation between time and student learning. The analysis takes into account that individual students matter, that students are often taught in classes, and that jointness in production is the rule rather than the exception. The values teachers place on the different possible educational…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Comparative Analysis, Economics
Yawkey, Thomas Daniels – 1979
This study investigates the effects of social relationships curricula and sex differences on reading readiness and imaginativeness. The subjects were ninety-six 5-year-olds from four kindergarten classrooms. In the pre- and post-assessment phase of the study the children were administered the Gates MacGinitie Reading Readiness Skills Test and the…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Elementary Education, Humanistic Education, Imagination
Johnson, John R. – 1979
A study was conducted to develop and test the empirical validity of a middle-range theory designed to explain and predict the relationship between speech communication egocentrism and reading achievement. The theory predicts an inverse relationship between elementary school children's levels of speech communication egocentrism and reading…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication Skills, Correlation, Egocentrism
Belcher, Mary S. – 1973
Eighty disadvantaged black third grade students were administered both reading achievement and oral language tests to determine whether the phonology, morphology, and grammar of Black English dialect have more effect on the below-average readers of the group than on those students making satisfactory reading progress. Student scores on the…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Language Usage
BLAND, DAVID HORTON – 1968
THIS STUDY INVESTIGATED THE LEVELS OF ACHIEVEMENT IN BOTH READING AND COMPUTATION AS THEY WERE ASSOCIATED WITH SELECTED INDEPENDENT VARIABLES--AGE, OFFENSE, AND GRADE COMPLETION IN SCHOOL. INMATES WERE SELECTED FROM ALL CLASSES OF AGE, TYPE OF CUSTODY AND TYPE OF OFFENSE. GROUP I INCLUDED 597 SUBJECTS WHO HAD NOT REACHED FOURTH GRADE. GROUP II…
Descriptors: Achievement, Age Differences, Arithmetic, Correctional Institutions
YLISTO, INGRID P. – 1968
TO TEST THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE READING PROCESS IS A NATURAL EMERGENCE OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT, A HYPOTHETICAL STRUCTURE WAS DEVISED TO RECAPITULATE THE PROCESS THAT IT IS ASSUMED THE CHILD GOES THROUGH. EACH OF 25 PRINTED WORD SYMBOLS WAS PRESENTED IN THE FOLLOWING ORDER--(1) A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE SYMBOL IN ITS NATURAL SETTING, (2) A DRAWING OF THE…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Context Clues, Early Reading, Language Acquisition
Rosen, Carl L. – American Journal of Optometry, 1968
To investigate the effects of perceptual training upon selected measures of reading achievement in grade 1, 12 experimental classrooms of randomly selected first graders received a 29-day adaptation of the Frostig Program for the Development of Visual Perception. Thirteen control classes added comparable time to the regular reading instructional…
Descriptors: Eye Hand Coordination, Grade 1, Perceptual Development, Predictive Measurement
Herber, Harold L.
The effectiveness of teaching specific, related reading skills within a content subject was tested in seventh-grade science classes. Comparisons were made among seventh graders who were taught no reading skills in conjunction with a content subject, seventh graders who received instruction in reading skills within the social studies content, and…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Developmental Reading, Reading Achievement, Reading Material Selection
Muller, Dorothy Hiott – 1976
A sample of 180 students in fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh grades participated in a study of the effect of age on the precision of interpretation of metaphorical language. All students read at or above fourth grade level. Metaphorical-language interpretation ability was measured by a 38-item instrument developed by the investigator using…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Secondary Education
Eberwein, Lowell D. – 1978
Teacher confusion about what reading skills to teach and how to teach them can be decreased by the use of a problem solving, questioning model for instructional decision making. The following 12 qeustions can be used as a procedure for structuring teacher observation of student performance on a daily basis. Is the skill essential to the student's…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Informal Reading Inventories, Reading Achievement, Reading Diagnosis
