This paper analyzes the order in which subject, verb, and quote come in sentences in the children's stories about Babar by Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff. It suggests that different constructions have different functions that are exploited by the author for communicative purposes. The paper adds that the order in which these elements appear affects…

This review of research involving children's moral judgment of literature indicates that such research has been plagued by serious methodological problems stemming largely from the fact that the stimulus materials used to assess children's comprehension and evaluations have tended to be poorly constructed. It contends that this forces children to…

A discriminant analysis of the relationships between 335 Florida students' first and second grade scores on the reading subtests of the Metropolitan Achievement Test (MAT) and their third grade scores on the Florida Statewide Assessment Test (FSAT) was undertaken, using race, sex, and intelligence as independent variables. Three null hypotheses…

SOME EXPERIMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES CONDUCTED DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY UTILIZING PHONETIC ALPHABETS AS TRANSITIONAL MEDIA FOR INITIAL READING INSTRUCTION WERE SURVEYED TO PROVIDE A HISTORY OF THIS ASPECT OF EDUCATION. THE ACTUAL CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING EACH OF THE MAJOR USES OF SUCH TRANSITIONAL MEDIA ARE CONSIDERED IN DETAIL. THE…

Motivational aspects of the content of first-grade reading textbooks used in the United States and in several foreign countries, as well as textbooks formerly used in the United States, were explored, using both sociocultural and personality development dimensions in the analyses. Exploration of the nature of reading textbook content and its…

A study was conducted to determine which subtests of the Gates Reading Readiness Tests have greatest predictive efficiency. An experiment to assess the effect of training in reading readiness on 222 kindergarten children (107 girls and 115 boys) provided the data for the research. The experimental group received 2 months' reading readiness…

This study examined the relationship between students' reading achievement and their achievement in other school subjects one year after graduating from a diagnostic and remedial reading program. Gain scores indicated by pretesting and posttesting with the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills were compared with the difference between grades in other…

The present series of experiments was designed to examine the factors affecting the ability of people to draw inferences from a passage of text. It was found that, using a true-false recognition test, proportion correct was higher and reaction time shorter on inferred information than on information that was actually presented. This was the case…

The effect on comprehension of words containing more than one meaning was studied. In experiment one, subjects in grades four, five, and six were assessed on their ability to recall polysemous words and identify their meanings after having read them in sentence contexts. When words were assigned their primary sense in the sentences, subjects…

The domain-referenced approach to assessment results in a set of tests that are closely linked to theoretical propositions about aspects of reading comprehension. In this paper, the definition, validation, and use of domains are described, and one strategy for developing domain-referenced measures is proposed. The strategy involves identifying a…

Ethics in education is a neglected area, yet everything that is good in education springs from ethics while everything that is bad reflects the lack of them. When confronted with ethical questions concerning their administrators, colleagues, or students, educators often adopt the stance that "it is never too wise to be too honest."…

Thirty-six nonreading children aged four and five years old participated in a study comparing the ease of learning words represented in traditional orthography (T.O.) and in three logographic systems: Carrier-Peak, Bliss, and Rebus. (The Carrier-Peak symbols, normally moveable abstract shapes, were converted to graphic form for the study.) The…

The results of a survey of nonparticipating schools are contained in this, the second of two reports evaluating the Georgia Right to Read Project. The survey solicited information about why the schools had elected not to participate, and it is concluded that lack of time and of money were the major reasons for nonparticipation. (A copy of the…

Two case studies were conducted that both involved teaching three-year-olds to read. In Study A, one three-year-old child was provided reading training over 13 months, concomitant with a background program of speech, language, and intellectual stimulation. In Study B, four three-year-old children were provided reading training over 2 months. A…

Eight teachers and 169 second-grade students participated in a study of the relationship of social interaction to reading achievement. Teachers rated each student on a behavior checklist in order to categorize each as high, average, or low, socially interactive. The SRA Achievement Series reading test and the California Short Form Test of Mental…