The purpose of this paper is to discuss the assessment of intelligence as it relates to reading. Its primary focus is upon criteria that might be applied to the information about intelligence and how it relates to reading. The contents include: "General Considerations," which discusses the concept of intelligence, measuring instruments…

The purpose of this project was to increase the reading achievement of students in kindergarten through grade 8 in three rural schools in Shasta County, California. Current practices in the teaching of reading and the fine arts were analyzed and recommendations were made for the implementation of new techniques and methods to be incorporated into…

This monograph is composed of two papers, one which discusses a study undertaken to examine standardized reading tests in relation to pupils' performance and another which contains samples of materials that could be made available to parents by their children's teachers or by community leaders. The research project analyzed the scores of 61…

This paper reports on a Right to Read summer workshop held for selected classroom teachers. The objectives of the workshop were to provide the teachers with new reading related concepts, techniques, and materials so they could return to their own schools and share their knowledge and attitudes with other teachers. A total of 30 teachers…

This investigation studied the relationships of children's reading achievement to their ability to reproduce orally selected phonological, morphological, and syntactical structures presented in "The Gloria and David Beginning English, Series No. 20, Test 6" (GDBE). The subjects were 198 Spanish-surnamed and black third graders. Reading achievement…

This study investigated the reading comprehension of good and poor readers in the second grade on reading passages with and without illustration. Eighty subjects were selected from children attending the second grade in the public schools of a midwestern city of approximately 200,000. For the purposes of this study children scoring within the top…

This study sought to determine if a perceptual development program would contribute more to improvement in reading than a supplementary reading program and if such a program was more beneficial for below grade level readers than for above grade level readers--defined as those students who scored one or more months below or above grade level on the…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not differences in mean gains for reading and listening achievement, and components of the self concept were observable between pupils who participated in a 6-week summer language arts program and similar children who did not. The sample consisted of 80 disadvantaged Negro second graders and 70…

National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) became a continuing project of the Education Commission of the States on July 1, 1969. Its primary aim is to obtain information on how well educated young people are and where the country's education problem areas lie. NAEP exercises have been constructed to provide information by 3 divisions: (1)…

The major hypothesis tested in this study was that low and average ability subjects could use the strategy of root analysis if instruction could be designed so as to compensate for individual weaknesses. Eighty-eight sixth grade middle class subjects were randomly assigned to self-instructional treatments to learn the root analysis strategy.…

This study investigated the relationships between critical reading ability and sex, intelligence, and reading achievement and the differences in critical reading ability of students from grades four to five to six. A 30-item Intermediate Critical Reading Test (ICRT) developed by the investigator on a 3.5 or below readability level, the California…

Reading instruction should be modified to make it compatible with students' perceptual skills. Assessing the adequacy of a student's perception is pertinent to planning his reading instructional program--not because the teacher can then teach to a preferred modality but, rather, because it can help the teacher determine whether the student has…

There are many pros and cons to the recent trend of early reading. The opponents fear that too much emphasis on early reading may lead to a less rounded development of the child; they agree on providing the child with richer and more varied experiences to insure reading readiness. The advocates believe that today's children have already had more…

A summary of the results of the Metropolitan Upper Primary Reading Test, Form B, which was administered to third grade pupils in Vancouver, is presented. Included are tables of local norms and comparisons of the results of earlier surveys. Because of the large number of perfect scores, it was concluded that the tests were too easy for many pupils.…

Results of the Gates-Macginitie Reading Test for sixth graders are summarized. Tables include information for each subtest concerning mean scores, percentile ranks, grade equivalent scores, and standard scores. The level of achievement in this survey was lower than that of previous surveys. (MS)