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Bousquet, Robert J. – 1980
Many factors influence the comprehension of a linguistic act by a listener or reader. Some, such as maturity, background, and interests of the decoder are nonlinguistic; others, such as the vocabulary and complexity of the morphological and syntactical structures are linguistic in nature. A review of the literature reveals that while studies have…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Deep Structure, Difficulty Level, Linguistics
Juel, Connie L. – 1978
A model of cognitive operations that children use in reading and comprehending a sentence was tested by using Sternberg's independent-process analysis on 64 second and fifth graders who were either high- or low-ability readers. Three specific component processes were examined: a decoding process, a word meaning process, and a comprehension…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Information Processing
Clearinghouse of Resources for Educators of Adults, Syracuse, NY. – 1977
To determine the relationship between reading comprehension and the measures of logical judgement and concepts of language, forty-one adult basic education students were tested using the California Achievement Test and Peel's tests of logical judgement. The findings include the following: (1) concepts of language structure vary in adults; (2) the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement
Download full textSchallert, Diane L.; Kleiman, Glenn M. – 1979
To determine why some children find textbooks to be much more difficult to understand than teachers' presentations, four reading selections for middle grade readers were analyzed, as were tape recorded lessons prepared by ten teachers on the basis of the same selections. Excerpts from one of the written passages and excerpts and analysis of one…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Learning Processes, Listening Comprehension
Kapel, Marilyn B. – 1978
An outline is given of a model procedure by which teachers can ascertain the reading level of students so they may match the students' ability in reading comprehension with the subject content of a course. This six-step model may be viewed as a continuum of material and student assessment, teaching, evaluation, and reassessment of material and…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Difficulty Level, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Education
Reed, Kathleen – 1978
Students in 61 English classes at an urban high school participated in an investigation of the effects of sustained silent reading (SSR) on their reading comprehension skills and on their atttiudes toward reading. SSR calls for a systematic structured time in school for students to read books of their choosing without being tested when the reading…
Descriptors: High School Students, Reading Attitudes, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
Fleisher, Lisa S.; And Others – 1978
To determine whether increasing decoding speed affects the comprehension of poor readers, two experiments were designed to test two groups consisting of seven good readers and eleven poor readers chosen from fourth and fifth grade. In the first experiment, poor readers were trained to read a list of words as rapidly as the good readers and were…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Grade 4, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Taylor, Karl K. – 1978
Recent research projects have indicated that a majority of adolescent and adult students have not reached a formal level of cognitive functioning and must therefore be taught rhetorical modes such as comparison and classification. A study was constructed to investigate the cognitive skills development of average college freshmen and to test…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, College Freshmen
O'Connor, Edward R. – 1978
The impact of the Right to Read program in Spencer, Massachusetts, and the 11 other Massachusetts Charter communities was investigated in the following respects: to assess changes in teachers' perceptions toward the reading program, to compare the perceptions of school and community populations, to measure the amount of children's reading, to…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Evaluation
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Educational Testing. – 1977
The Degrees of Reading Power test (DRP) and its related technology are described in this publication. It contains a brief description of the DRP, which was designed to measure the most difficult level of text that a student can read with comprehension; a report on the validation of the test; sample DRP passages; an instructional viewpoint as it…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension
Johnson, Dale D.; And Others – 1978
To evaluate the performance of elementary school children on various paradigms for assessing vocabulary knowledge on-line, three studies were conducted. In the first, 173 second through eighth grade students were involved in an investigation of five approaches to vocabulary assessment: synonym in context, synonym out of context, cloze, oral…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Computer Assisted Instruction, Context Clues, Educational Diagnosis
Hyman, Ronald T. – 1980
Suggestions are presented in this paper to help teachers improve their questioning about students' reading as one way to improve the teaching and learning of reading. The paper first outlines three areas in the teaching of reading--the symbol, comprehension, and pleasure areas--and notes that teacher questions should aim at development in all…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Literature Appreciation
Defense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1970
Both the 1945 and the 1950 constitutions of the Republic of Indonesia are presented in Bahasa Indonesian as part of the basic language course in Indonesian. The volume is used daily for reading comprehension practice during the final weeks of the third phase of the course. Comparing these constitutions enables students to comprehend the course of…
Descriptors: Constitutional History, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Indonesian
Vaughan, Joseph L., Jr., Ed.; Gaus, Paula J., Ed. – 1979
This monograph is the third in a series of semiannual reports of research related to reading in secondary schools. The first section of the monograph is made up of three research studies on the validation of teaching procedures to facilitate students' comprehension of content area texts, the graph-reading abilities of seventh grade students, and a…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Educational Research, Graphs, Learning Theories
WARWICK, EUNICE; AND OTHERS – 1964
THE MADISON, WISCONSIN, CURRICULUM GUIDE FOR THE TEACHING OF READING AND LITERATURE IN KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE SIX IS DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS. PART 1 CONTAINS THE MADISON POINT OF VIEW CONCERNING READING AND LITERATURE IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, AND PROVIDES FLOW CHARTS TO HELP THE TEACHER PERCEIVE THE TOTAL READING AND LITERATURE PROGRAM.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Interpretive Skills
