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Osburn, Bess; Bobruk, Toni – 1981
To determine the general characteristics of beginning reading materials, to establish categories in regard to concepts and the instruction of concepts, and to search for a common framework among concepts, a study surveyed six popular, widely promoted basal series which had been copyrighted within the past 5 years. For each lesson, the stated…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Cognitive Development, Content Analysis
Fry, Edward B. – 1981
The reading diagnosis tests and observations in this book provide a systematic way of gathering information about a student. The first 10 chapters test the following: (1) general reading level through oral reading of graded paragraphs; (2) silent reading comprehension; (3) phonics skills through oral reading of nonsense words and phoneme grapheme…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Education, Handwriting, Informal Reading Inventories
Fernie, David – 1980
The purpose of this study was to investigate, in a broad sense, children's understanding of various types of people in two social domains: television and real life. Specifically, the study was designed to solicit information about (1) the physical and psychological abilities and vulnerabilities children would attribute to television characters and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Beliefs, Characterization, Comprehension
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Educational Testing. – 1982
The Reading Test for New York State Elementary Schools is designed to determine the most difficult prose text a student can read with comprehension. Test uses described include evaluating the student's current level of achievement; determining reading difficulty levels for instruction; measuring growth of comprehension; determining statewide…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Latent Trait Theory
Parrish, Berta, Ed.; And Others – 1979
This primer was developed to help secondary school business teachers to encourage and promote reading in their curricular programs. Guidelines and suggestions are offered on ways teachers can stimulate student reading by capitalizing on student interests and on ways teachers can reinforce vocabulary and comprehension skills. The manual's first…
Descriptors: Business Education, Content Area Reading, Language Skills, Reading Comprehension
An Art Teachers' Primer to Reading. Supplemental Material for RDG 467, RDG 480, RDG 507 and RDG 544.
Parrish, Berta, Ed.; And Others – 1978
This primer was developed to help secondary school art teachers to encourage and promote reading in their curricular programs. Guidelines and suggestions are offered on ways teachers can stimulate student reading by capitalizing on student interests and on ways teachers can reinforce vocabulary and comprehension skills. The manual's first section…
Descriptors: Art Education, Content Area Reading, Language Skills, Reading Comprehension
Parrish, Bert, Ed.; And Others – 1978
This primer was developed to help secondary school music teachers to encourage and promote reading in their curricular programs. Guidelines and suggestions are offered on ways teachers can stimulate student reading by capitalizing on student interests and on ways teachers can reinforce vocabulary and comprehension skills. The manual's first…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Language Skills, Music Education, Reading Comprehension
Parrish, Berta, Ed.; And Others – 1978
This primer was developed to help secondary school industrial arts teachers to encourage and promote reading in their curricular programs. Guidelines and suggestions are offered on ways teachers can stimulate student reading by capitalizing on student interests and on ways teachers can reinforce vocabulary and comprehension skills. The manual's…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Industrial Arts, Language Skills, Reading Comprehension
Parrish, Berta, Ed.; And Others – 1978
This primer was developed to help secondary school home economics teachers to encourage and promote reading in their curricular programs. Guidelines and suggestions are offered on ways teachers can stimulate student reading by capitalizing on student interests and on ways teachers can reinforce vocabulary and comprehension skills. The manual's…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Home Economics, Language Skills, Reading Comprehension
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Research. – 1977
The "Test Development Notebook" is a resource designed for the preparation of tests of literal comprehension for students in grades 1 through 12. This volume contains 200 multiple-choice cloze exercises taken from textbooks in science, and the accompanying answer key. Each exercise carries the code letter of the section to which it belongs. The…
Descriptors: Answer Keys, Biology, Chemistry, Cloze Procedure
Kurth, Ruth Justine; Stromberg, Linda J. – 1982
The goals of an intervention study of formal reading instruction were to encourage teachers to incorporate more direct teaching of comprehension, to maintain a more equitable balance between time devoted to word recognition instruction and time devoted to comprehension instruction, to promote independent level reading, and to minimize the amount…
Descriptors: Educational Cooperation, Elementary Education, Instructional Improvement, Reading Comprehension
Vancouver Community Coll., British Columbia. – 1980
Designed for use in Adult Basic Education (ABE) programs, this curriculum guide contains a skills outline, activities, materials, a bibliography of selected materials, and 343 worksheets dealing with word attack, spelling, reading, and writing skills. The curricular model presented utilizes a minimum essentials approach that passes students…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Guides, Developmental Programs
Download full textWebb, Norman L. – 1982
A summative evaluation of the instructional television series "Reading for a Reason" was conducted during the spring of 1982 as part of the premier showing of the series over the Wisconsin Educational Television Network. The series consisted of eight programs designed to teach skills for content area reading to seventh and eighth grade…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Educational Television, Grade 7, Grade 8
MacKinnon, G. E., Ed.; Waller, T. Gary, Ed. – 1981
Intended to provide a publication outlet for systematic and substantive reviews and syntheses, both empirical and theoretical, and for integrative reports of programatic research, this volume focuses on current theory and research on word identification and comprehension and explores the implication of this work for the teaching of reading. The…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Decoding (Reading), Models, Reading Comprehension
Schrader, William B. – 1984
Each of the three studies in this report examines a different aspect of the basic question of what the four item types (analogies, antonyms, reading comprehension, and sentence completion) on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) verbal section are measuring and of whether a change in the relative emphasis on the various item types would enhance the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Analogy, Class Rank, College Entrance Examinations
