The hypothesis that there would be a significant difference in correct responses between a group of junior college retarded readers seeing words in context and another seeing isolated words in favor of the words-in-context group was investigated. A group of 42 retarded readers enrolled in reading and writing classes of the academic skills lab in…

A study was conducted at Clemson University involving 90 high-risk freshmen who were enrolled in special English sections on the basis of low verbal Stanford Achievement Test scores. Thirty students made up the experimental group, and 60 students, the control group. Students in the experimental group were those who volunteered to take the reading…

The purpose of this research was to determine the effectiveness of the Frostig Developmental Program of Visual Perception in effecting gains in reading readiness scores and perceptual motor ability with kindergarten students and reading achievement scores and perceptual motor ability with grade one students. High, middle and low groups in both…

At the present time more than 600 publications concerned with individualized reading are available. The 84 items listed in this bibliography were selected to help the reader obtain varied points of view without reading 600 articles. The selected studies are arranged in four categories to include (1) carefully considered arguments for and against…

This review on the language experience approach to reading instruction for the culturally disadvantaged is one of the reading information series, designed to review the past, assess the present, and predict the future of reading education. The target audience are those with specific professional interests and needs: researchers, professors, and…

The purpose of this study was to explore the feasibility of a competency-based model for the instruction of a course in reading methods for preservice education students. A secondary purpose was the development of staff personnel to teach this course, using a similar competency-based component. Evaluation of the model was based on observation of…

The variables used in most readability formulas consist of counts of language elements which highly relate to comprehension scores on passages of a wide range of difficulty. The variables most often used are some measure of word difficulty and yield an index score representing the style difficulty of the passages to which they are applied…

To more effectively meet individual differences and permit children to learn at their own rate, a list of behavioral objectives for teaching reading in the primary grades was developed. Nongraded primary reading skill sheets were compared with reading authorities' lists of basic reading skills, and a master skill sheet was used as the basis for…

Investigations reported during the past century have generally shown girls to be better readers than boys in the United States. Some researchers have attributed these differences to biological-maturational factors; others have suggested cultural-societal causes. The present study sought to examine this dichotomy by testing the reading ability of…

After establishing reliability for an associative verbal encoding (a/v/e) test, the relationship between children's a/v/e and their reading achievement was investigated. Two hypotheses were examined: (1) a/v/e will improve with training, and (2) associated with improved a/v/e will be concomitant improvement in reading achievement. The subjects…

The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of two methods--individualized approach and small groups--in the teaching of reading to juvenile delinquents. Fifteen-year-old delinquent youths, classified as uncontrollable children whose academic performance was equivalent to tenth grade level, were assigned randomly to three groups.…

Group training on segmentation-blending training forms (SB) in conjunction with strategies for decoding novel words (WD) was assessed in kindergarteners. Neither the WD or SB factor was found to significantly affect novel word decoding performance, although the results indicated that the sounding out SB form led to considerable success in word…

A summary of the discussions of the Navajo Reading Study Conference, held on December 4-5, 1969, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was presented in this report. A group of consultants met to discuss the collection of data and its analysis for a study on Navajo reading materials and the language of 6-year-old Navajo children. The consultants included Mr.…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between performance on Piagetian conservation tasks and the ability to form hypotheses as to the probable content of story material among first and second grade children. Cognitive operations selected for comparison were operations concerning conservation of mass, conservation of…

Children with perceptual handicaps are often taught reading in the same manner as children in regular school placements. To present a description of the oral reading of such children, five were selected using the I.T.P.A., the Frostig, and the comments of a neurologist. They each read a story orally, and retold the story, following the reading. A…