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Download full textBalmuth, Miriam – 1971
The relationship between the ability of elementary pupils to blend phonemes in nonsense syllables and their silent reading achievement was examined. An original test designed to measure phoneme blending of nonsense syllables was administered to 252 boys and girls randomly selected from grades 1 through 6 and from a wide ethnic and socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Phonemes, Pronunciation, Reading Achievement
1970
The reading achievement scores of over 3,000 students in grades 1 to 3 in 11 inner-city schools were studied to evaluate the effectiveness of the Sullivan Programmed Reading Series. All participating teachers were trained and aided by preservice and inservice workshops, building reading consultants, a speech improvement teacher, an instructional…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Primary Education, Program Effectiveness, Programed Instruction
Cawley, John F.; And Others – 1972
The purpose of this book is to provide the special educator and the general educator with a basic reference tool concerning the slow learner and the reading problem. The text is divided into two sections. The first section, "An Overview of Selected Factors Relative to Reading and the Slow Learner," includes six chapters that discuss selected…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Mental Retardation, Reading, Reading Ability
Maresh, Rober T. – 1971
An analysis of vertical grade grouping was conducted with 108 pupils in grades one through six. The control group consisted of 107 pupils arranged in a singly graded manner. Three hypotheses stated in null form were: (1) There will be no significant differences in change in attitudes toward reading when comparisons are made between vertically and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Reading, Reading Ability
Ziegler, Elsie Mae – 1970
To appraise the value of a creative dramatics program in a public library setting was the purpose of this study. Nine public library branches comprised the setting for the experiment. At each branch there were three units: (1) creative dramatics, (2) storytelling, and (3) library usage. Storytelling and library usage were the control group. Pre…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Creative Dramatics, Creativity
Dietrich, Coralie – 1972
Forty-four 7-11 year-old subjects with normal to high IQ's but who fell in the lower half of their respective age groups in reading were studied to determine the relative effectiveness of perceptual motor training (PMT) and individualized remedial reading instruction (IRRI) upon the reading achievement, perceptual motor development, and behavior…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Correlation, Elementary School Students, Individualized Instruction
Curtis, Jonathan – 1972
Presented is a procedure that could be used by a school system to identify by the end of first grade those children who are likely to underachieve (achieve or overachieve) in reading by the third grade. The procedure consists of (1) Defining underachievers, achievers, and overachievers through use of regression and its standard error, (2)…
Descriptors: Discriminant Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Grade 1, Grade 3
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1972
The Remedial Reading Laboratories program was designed to improve the reading achievement of disadvantaged students in grades four through 12 and thereby enable them to profit from regular classroom instruction. The program also aimed at improving the students' self-esteem and self-confidence. In 1969-70 classes were offered to over 1,000…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Mexican Americans, Reading
Martellock, Helen Anna – 1971
Six highly skilled middle school readers read aloud a story from a basal reader, then orally retold the story in their own words, wrote a version of the story, and finally read their own version aloud. Typescripts made from audio tape were compared with typescripts of the written compositions. The oral and written retellings were analyzed for…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Miscue Analysis, Oral Reading, Psycholinguistics
Counelis, James Steve – 1972
A diagnostic review of reading achievement in the first three grades of the South East Education Development (SEED) project is presented. Comparisons are made with the 1969-1970 SEED data, which is considered baseline. The findings indicated that: (1) no significant difference existed in the pooled attendance for each grade between two successive…
Descriptors: Attendance, Beginning Reading, Black Students, Class Size
Trost, David McRoberts-Adair – 1971
The purpose of this study was to determine whether children learning to read in the initial teaching alphabet (i.t.a.) and traditional orthography (TO) differ in general attitudes toward reading, in fluency in written expression, and in reading vocabulary and comprehension at the end of their second-grade school experience. Further, this study…
Descriptors: Initial Teaching Alphabet, Intelligence Quotient, Reading, Reading Achievement
Searls, Evelyn Fitch – 1971
The purposes of this study were: (1) to compare the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) and the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) as measures of individual intelligence of beginning first graders; (2) to determine the relationship of Verbal, Performance, and Full Scale IQ's of both tests to end-of-year…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade Prediction, Grade 1, Intelligence Tests
Wuycheck, Eileen Champ – 1971
This investigation studied the effects upon reading achievement through tutorial participation. Fifth grade inner-city students tutored third graders. One fifth grader tutored the same three third graders daily on a one-to-one basis. One teacher in each school supervised high school coordinators and the tutoring teams. Third grade teacher…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 5
ROBINSON, R. E. – 1966
THE MAJOR OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO TEST THE NULL HYPOTHESES THAT THERE WOULD BE NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES IN THE CHANGE IN READING ACHIEVEMENT LEVEL OF SEVERAL VARIED GROUPS OF PUPILS. THE MEASURE OF READING ACHIEVEMENT WAS THE METROPOLITAN READINESS TEST. THE MINIMUM ACCEPTABLE CONFIDENCE LEVEL WAS .05. SEVERAL CONCLUSIONS WERE REACHED.…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Classes (Groups of Students), Grade 1, Nongraded Instructional Grouping
MACDONALD, JAMES B.; AND OTHERS – 1966
THE RELATIONSHIP OF TWO PATTERNS OF INSTRUCTION TO VARIOUS ASPECTS OF BEGINNING READING INSTRUCTION WAS STUDIED. THESE ASPECTS INCLUDED (1) READING ACHIEVEMENT, (2) SCHOOL-RELATED ATTITUDES, (3) SOCIOMETRIC CHOICES, (4) SCHOOL-RELATED ANXIETY, AND (5) TEACHER AWARENESS. THE 10 EXPERIMENTAL AND 10 CONTROL GROUPS WERE PRETESTED WITH THE METROPOLITAN…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Comparative Analysis, Grade 1
