Analysis of the Rinsland vocabulary list indicated that while the list was dated, it was more than adequate for purposes of classroom instruction. (RB)

Sixty skilled and 60 less-skilled readers were tested for oral reading skills at the end of one, two, and three years of reading instruction, to study the acquisition of reading fluency. A 3 x 2 x 3 ANOVA was used to analyze the influence of years of practice and instruction, reading skill, and levels of word accuracy on oral reading fluency.…

This report examines the theory that when people understand a text, they create a complex scenario (or model) within which the events described might plausibly occur. In order to study construction and revision of such models, five subjects were given difficult-to-understand texts, and were later asked to discuss the processing they went through…

This booklet reviews reading research that was reported in Great Britain during 1973. The introductory pages highlight research in reading standards and tests, dyslexia and specific reading difficulties, remedial reading instruction, reading and its relation to language, reading materials, and reading interests. Annotated bibliographies list…

This panel study was designed to measure the adoption level over a period of one year for a set of ten reading programs being promoted by NIE/HEW. One panel sample included 200 randomly selected school districts; a second panel sample included 100 school systems that had ordered one or more booklets describing the programs by returning a coupon…

Ten graduate English majors responded to 21 samples of literary discourse chosen to represent Kinneavy's (1971) categories; the selections contained a total of 513 cloze situations. This paper reports the results of an analysis of the clues which the readers reported using when they correctly completed the clozed items. A 14-category…

Ten Graduate English majors responded to 21 samples of literary discourse chosen to represent Kinneavy's (1971) categories; the selections contained a total of 513 cloze situations. Only exact replacement of the deleted nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs was scored as correct. Analysis of results indicated that replacement in poetry was…

A well-planned, effective inservice program should include the following criteria: long-range preparation involving all staff, follow-up supportive services, focus on teachers' stated needs, cooperation of teachers and teacher educators in discovering how teachers can continue to grow, development of knowledge about resources and necessary…

Syntax in four published series of elementary school readers was analyzed to discover patterns of complexity increasing from first to sixth grade, to identify structures accounting for differences across the grades, and to compare the frequency of specific structures among the series. Analyses of 16 surface structures representing complexities…

Thirty-two seventh-grade remedial readers participated in a study of the effects of seven folktales upon specific attitudes. A 28-item Likert scale containing four items specifically related to each folktale was administered as a pretest and readministered three days later as a posttest. Analysis of results indicated that there had been no…

One hundred forty-three seventh-grade students were assessed in the areas of word attack and comprehension. This study focused on the 71 students with the lowest total word-attack scores. Results indicated that all comprehension subskills had strong relationships to overall comprehension, but that many word-attack subskills had only low,…

Two purposes guided delegates' discussions at a 1976 international symposium: to analyze and discuss various problems associated with motivating people both to learn to read and to continue reading and to recommend programs of action and research in reading motivation. This report is a condensation of that meeting in which the participants…

A study was made of Formula Phonics Reading Chain Programs in six California elementary schools to determine whether these programs replicated, in both form and educational outcome, the model program. On-site visits were made to evaluate program components and teaching strategies. Student achievement data provided by the schools, the districts,…

Reading achievement of students in second to sixth grade in three school districts participating in a performance-contracting program was tested, using the Stanford Achievement Test and the Metropolitan Achievement Test, at the beginning and the end of the school year. The performance contract for each of the districts included a…

Two fundamental assumptions guide this survey of recent research on anaphora. The first is that anaphoric expressions do not refer to segments in a text or discourse, but to entities that are assumed to be in the language receiver's mind. The second assumption is that a text serves to suggest the referents for anaphora, as does the nonlinguistic…