This booklet was designed to acquaint social studies teachers with the meanings of some of the terms used in reading which are related to social studies, to acquaint these teachers with the reading skills that can be taught and/or reinforced through social studies activities, and to provide a source of a model of such activities. Activities are…

Concludes that teachers should use less difficult reading material when administering oral reading tests for a true picture of a child's syntactic and contextual strategies. (MKM)

To determine whether the connectedness of prose passages had any effect on the behavior of readers who searched for information in the passages, the behavior of readers who saw the normal arrangement of a passage was contrasted with the behavior of readers who saw the random arrangement of the passage. (HOD)

Purposes a reconsideration of the traditional notions regarding reading rate and flexibility (i.e., that the good reader is a flexible reader who adjusts reading rate to the difficulty of the material or the purpose for reading) and suggests that perhaps there is no relationship between reading rate and flexibility. (JM)

Gives standards for judging the translation of advertisements. The examples are French to English as well as English to French. Emphasizes readability, memorizability, and puns. (MLA)

Many students assessed as being weak in reading comprehension have no reading disability, but are being asked to read material above their language and conceptual levels of competence. (DD)

The study evaluated the readability of warning labels on potentially hazardous substances sold in a grocery store. Findings indicated the reading level of half the key words ranged from 4th grade to 10th grade and that many words seldom taught to the moderately or severely retarded appeared frequently and others commonly taught appeared rarely.…

Obtained readability levels for several self-report measures designed for use with child/adolescent populations, using a recently developed readability formula based on an updated evaluation of reading materials. Also reports grade levels of words in individual items and in directions. Evaluation demonstrated lower reading levels than those…

Lists the dangers of readability formulas and concludes that while they may be a necessary evil, they should not be used as the underlying structure of a reading program. (FL)

Argues that the nature and the readability of instructional materials may be an unsuspected barrier to progress for adult illiterates who receive instruction from volunteer literacy organizations. Considers the reading series of several national organizations. (CH)

Fifty fifth-grade students read passages at three readability levels from four content areas, then answered vocabulary, literal, and interpretive questions based on each passage. Significant differences in comprehension were found across ability levels and content areas. One sample passage is appended. (FL)

Discusses a study of the readability of the prose passages of the General Educational Development (GED) Test in comparison with high school texts, adult reading materials, and commercial GED tests. (JOW)

Reported are results of a survey in which 13 series of secondary level geography textbooks were tested to determine readability. Findings indicate that there is little difference in the readability level of geography texts published for grade six and those published for the secondary level. References are included. (Author/DB)

Reveals that the cloze and comprehension test scores correlated at significant levels, thus supporting the predictive validity of the cloze procedure. (RB)