Regardless of their educational or financial level, parents have a twofold responsibility for their child's development in reading. First, they must inform themselves: this involves both developing a clear understanding of reading as a process of active, selective thinking and obtaining an accurate account of their child's reading level and…

A study was conducted to investigate the facilitation of learning word pairs (paired associate learning) using connected text rather than the unrelated, simple sentences of previous research. Each of 64 fifth graders, classified as either a high or a low reading achiever, was assigned to one of four presentation conditions: (1) hear sentences/read…

The study identified the perceptions of American Indian and non-Indian teachers of Indian students in order to determine the effect of their perceptions on the reading achievement of Indian first-grade students. Subjects were 4 female teachers of 72 Indian first-grade students enrolled in Federal elementary schools located in North Central…

Concern about typical early identification procedures used with kindergarten children to predict potential reading failure is expressed in this paper. A diagnostic procedure for screening kindergarten children and then prescribing an individualized program for each child is described. The screening battery--Prediction with Diagnostic Qualities…

A program of instruction was designed to promote positive self-concept in elementary school students in order to test the hypothesis that such self-concept is necessary for academic achievement and desirable behavior. Twenty students who were performing at a year below grade level in reading and math were selected for the study. These students…

The purposes of this study are to ascertain the effectiveness of the cloze procedure when used as part of the remedial reading instruction in community college classes, and to determine if one type of teaching presentation--using the cloze procedure--is significantly superior to another. One hundred students from Bronx Community College who…

Two components of teaching are tasksetting behavior and optimizing behavior. The former is the actions of the teacher to achieve the goals of teaching a specific curriculum; the latter is the actions of the teacher to improve or accelerate the pupil's learning. Reading and physical education teachers were studied to investigate the relationship…

Baseline data on change in reading achievement over summer vacation in the absence of summer school were obtained for two groups of middle-class children. The Cognitive Abilities Test (CAT) and the reading comprehension subtest of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills were administered in May to 172 third graders and 207 seventh graders. An alternate form…

This study was designed to determine the difference, if any, in reading scores of disadvantaged fourth and fifth grade reading students when administered the Stanford Reading Tests (form W and Y) by either standard procedure or by tape. Fifty-three disadvantaged students of the Pawhuska (Oklahoma) elementary School were divided at random into two…

One characteristic of human learning, which most psychologists and educators appear to deem highly desirable, is that of attending long enough to a stimulus so that learning occurs. It is this principle that gave a major purpose to the study to investigate the relationship between a simple and a complex attention span task and the reading…

The effectiveness of personal attention from reading teachers in increasing student attendance and scholastic achievement was investigated in a study of 98 students in 15 New York City high schools which receive Title I, and New York State, funding for remedial reading. Each of 49 remedial reading teachers initiated a relationship with a randomly…

Statistics from research studies indicate that boys have more difficulty than girls in learning to read. As a result, changes being made in the educational system are aimed at adapting early instruction to the individual needs and capacities of boys as well as girls. This booklet focuses on past research on sex differences in reading achievement,…

The purposes of this study were to determine to what extent students' expectancies, as measured by students' predictions, related to test performance; to determine if taking the test would alter or influence students' expectations and the accuracy of their predictions; and to determine if students' expectations could be altered by a report…

The relative effectiveness of several testing instruments in predicting the reading achievement of Puerto Rican first graders was investigated in this dissertation. One hundred seventy-four students were tested by the "Reading Readiness Test (Prueba de Apresto)," the "Collective Puerto Rican Test of Mental Capacity (Prueba Colectiva de Capacidad…

This study was designed to discover the degree of relationship between a number of predictor variables and reading achievement for 65 black second grade students in two Austin, Texas, schools. The seven predictor variables used were: oral language performance as measured by the Gloria and David Beginning English, Series 20, Test 6 (GDBE); an…