A study explored the relationship between student behavior ("troubling" versus "non-troubling") and reading achievement among second-grade students. Of the 128 students enrolled in regular education classrooms at Paul Revere Elementary School (a public school in a southern suburb of Chicago), 30 were randomly selected to be a…

The reading abilities of enlisted personnel are of interest to the Air Force for a number of reasons. One important reason is that the Air Force must ensure that airmen have the abilities necessary to read and comprehend training material and job aides such as technical orders (TOs). Since reading ability tends to differ among the Air Force…

To account for the fact that the average reading literacy in Newfoundland and Labrador (Canada) is lower than the national average, a study examined the value that individuals place on literacy. Subjects, 625 males and females, each of whom was a head or one of the heads of households between 21 and 65 years of age and had not participated in an…

Noting that the amount of reading students do is related to their reading achievement, this booklet presents an instrument designed to measure the amount and breadth of students' reading in and out of school. The first part of the booklet discusses the Reading Activity Inventory (RAI) and how it differs from other reading activity measures, uses…

Sixty children with reading ages 18 months or more below their chronological ages, were compared with a control group of the same size who had average or above average reading ages. Both groups completed a laterality questionnaire relating to different aspects of perception and handedness. (Editor)

Concludes that the ratio of boys to girls experiencing reading disability problems in the Seattle Public Schools is three to two. (RB)

Concludes that despite a significant relationship between conservation and intelligence, neither is a significant predictor of reading achievement. (RB)

Describes Fry's Readability Graph for determing the variations in difficulty throughout textbooks. (RB)

Concludes that the extra attention paid to children during the administration of reading tests does not have a significant effect on test performance and that the Hawthorne effect does not influence reading test results. (RB)

A study investigated differences in reading achievement of students taught with a whole language philosophy compared to students taught using a basal textbook. Subjects, 20 second grade students taught using a whole language philosophy and 17 second grade students in the same school using basal textbooks, were given pre- and posttests to determine…

Determines the listening capacity of Spanish-speaking first grade children as measured by subtests of the Metropolitan Achievement Test, Primary I Battery. (RB)

Article presented a handy guide to what not to do if you want to help your students be successful readers. (Editor/RK)

A historical survey of the main milestones in the quest for ways to improve reading instruction as reflected in selections from the vast literature on reading that has emerged in the past 20 years. (Author)

Lists the factors related to reading achievement, together with the research which supports each factor in the list. (RB)