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New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment. – 1986
To help raise the reading scores and attitudes of selected "at-risk" students from Thomas Jefferson, Springfield Gardens, and Franklin D. Roosevelt High Schools in New York City, a pilot study daily provided students with individual copies of the "New York Daily News" and integrated the use of the paper into regular…
Descriptors: High Schools, Newspapers, Program Evaluation, Reading Achievement
Download full textAnderson, Bernice; And Others – 1986
A study examined the relationship between television viewing habits and reading achievement of students in grades 4, 8, and 11. Students, in addition to responding to the achievement and background exercises, answered three questions about their television viewing habits. Analysis of results showed that at all three grade levels, students who…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement, Reading Habits
Thompson, Mark E. – 1986
Significant research studies, bibliographies, and selected scholarly papers that have analyzed numerous aspects of illiteracy are examined in this paper. A definition, characteristics, and the plight of illiterates are discussed. The following selected research studies are then reviewed and a brief analysis of each is given: (1) "The Acquisition…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Educational Trends, Illiteracy, Information Sources
Smith, Brenda; Elifson, Joan M. – 1985
The influence of the number of pictures in college textbooks on students' understanding of the text was studied. For six history texts, the numbers of pages, maps, and pictures were compared. Charts, graphs, and diagrams of processes were not counted. While the number of pages and the number of maps in these books have not changed significantly,…
Descriptors: College Instruction, College Students, Higher Education, Illustrations
Carneal, Ann; Bohning, Gerry – 1984
Prompted by the fact that short and interesting materials suitable for reading aloud to secondary school students are difficult to find, a survey was conducted to compile a list of such materials for dissemination. The 260 respondents included secondary school teachers in all curriculum areas. Results indicated that half the respondents read…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Reading Aloud to Others, Reading Material Selection, Reading Research
Hayes, David A. – 1986
A study researched the differential uses readers make of analogic and visual prompts for understanding and remembering complex prose. Fifty-two eleventh grade students with average and above average reading ability enrolled in a comprehensive high school in central Georgia participated in the study. They were ranked according to their ability to…
Descriptors: Analogy, Diagrams, High Schools, Memory
Cudaback, Dorothea – 1986
A study examined the readership of state cooperative extension offices' home learning programs--nine series of booklets of information about pregnancy, infant development, and parenting, mailed to parents in ten states to coincide with pregnancy stage and baby's age in months. The reading level of the series varied from sixth to eighth-grade…
Descriptors: Instructional Material Evaluation, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Education, Parent Materials
Levine, Daniel U. – 1988
In order to assess relationships and problems in drawing conclusions regarding productive school practices, a study analyzed the 1984 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data on homework and reading achievement among 13-year-olds. A previous study (Lange, 1987) examining the NAEP data set concluded that the number of hours spent on…
Descriptors: Community Influence, Data Interpretation, Homework, Parent Influence
Raines, Shirley C.; Isbell, Rebecca J. – 1988
The wordless picture book is a valued but underused resource for young children, beginning literacy students, and for proficient readers. A survey of teachers indicated that three problems exist: (1) few wordless picture books are available in library collections; (2) teachers do not know how to select quality wordless books; and (3) few teachers…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Picture Books
Campbell, Kenneth Claude; And Others – 1988
The reading interests of children should be considered by teachers in order to increase positive attitudes toward reading, the amount of their reading, and their reading achievement. Since findings show that using trade books to teach reading has strong positive effects upon children's reading achievement, a study examined children's choices of…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Reading Interests, Reading Material Selection
Blohm, Paul J.; Colwell, Clyde G. – 1983
Eighty high school students enrolled in social studies classrooms participated in a study exploring the hypothesis that field dependence-independence is a perceptual dimension of cognitive style influencing text structure variables and the quality of free recall. Based on results of a test of field dependence/independence, 10 subjects served in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Content Area Reading, Reading Research
Weisberg, Renee; Balajthy, Ernest – 1987
A study investigated the effects of training in the use of graphic organizers on the summarization strategies of disabled readers. Subjects, 21 disabled readers (with a mean age of 13 years, 7 months) from a reading clinic, received 5 hours of training in the use of graphic organizers to map expository passages. Instruction included training in…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Graphic Organizers, Intermediate Grades, Reading Difficulties
Edler, Kristine Winkle – 1988
To investigate prediction as a strategy that can improve reading comprehension, 50 third grade students from Toledo, Ohio, were first divided into experimental and control groups. The 2 groups both read the same 5 basal stories for instruction, were given the same pretest passages, answered 10 comprehension questions, and then followed a 3-day…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Prediction, Primary Education, Questioning Techniques
Kintgen, Eugene R., Ed.; And Others – 1988
This book contains 28 essays that form the core of an advanced course in the theoretical backgrounds of literacy. The book contains the following articles: "The Consequences of Literacy" (Jack Goody and Ian Watt); "Some Psychodynamics of Orality" (Walter Ong); "Implications of Literacy in Traditional China and India"…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Illiteracy, Literacy, Reading Instruction
Davis, Sara N. – 1988
Reading is best understood as a dialectic process where the influence of reader and text are constantly merging to create a jointly produced and evolving understanding. What occurs as the reader and text come together during reading is similar in form to a dialogue, a model for the reader-text relationship that has not been explored in the reader…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Comprehension
