Instructional technicians administered a token reinforcement remedial reading program to 32 black ghetto children who were problem learners. In the 40.2 mean hours of training, the subjects made a mean of 78,505 reading responses; learned a mean of 726.8 words, retaining 81% short term and 59% long term; and received a mean monetary amount of…

This paper provides a definition of the characteristics necessary for a quality reading program in a Right to Read local education agency. Against these criteria the Right to Read Advisory Council of the local education agency may evaluate its current program. Through a comparison of current practices with what should be, existing strengths may be…

Japanese preschool children begin to read at home at age four without any formal instruction or reading readiness programs, and the development of their reading abilities in the preschool stage is mainly up to the parents. A new reading program will be needed for the sake of children with parents who are not sufficiently concerned about reading.…

This report presents information on the extent of illiteracy among American youths as assessed by a test specially constructed for this purpose and administered as part of the Health Examination Survey during 1966-70. The test consisted of two parts, one focusing on reading ability and a second one on writing. For the purposes of this report, if a…

Whether IQ is or is not related to reading depends on such variables as the difficulty of the task, the time allowed for learning, the quality of instruction, and the nature of the tests used for assessing intelligence and reading. The relationship between intelligence--as assessed by an individual measuring instrument, such as the…

This project evaluated the effectiveness of the "Flex-Ed" Reading Readiness Program with nineteen first grade students. Most of the nineteen students had scored below or near the tenth percentile of the MacMillan Readiness Test. Four behavioral objectives were written for the students in the areas of space, quantity, time, and basic…

This document is a final report on a 4-year longitudinal study of possible relationships between selected home environmental factors and children's reading achievement in the primary grades. The home factors included (1) maternal language style, (2) maternal teaching style, (3) children's daily schedules, and (4) prereading activities at home.…

This study investigated differences related to pupils' sex in female teachers' perceptions of pupil social behavior and related these differences to reading achievement. A questionnaire was utilized to measure teachers' perceptions of pupil behavior. Data was obtained from a sample of 20 female first grade teachers and their pupils, 220 girls and…

Educational Testing Service, in cooperation with Response Analysis Corporation and MATHEMATICA, is carrying out a research project to describe reading behaviors of American adults and to translate these behaviors into a prototype of tasks for the measurement of adult reading achievement. A household interview survey of a nationally representative…

The reading program, Words in Color, was used as a 1-year program at the first-grade level in an elementary school in Gainesville, Florida. The reading program in each of four control classes was identifiably unique and varied. Predata were collected using the Metropolitan Readiness Test, Form A, in September, 1969 and the Otis Quick Scoring…

This study was conducted to determine what effect instruction in listening skills would have on reading achievement and listening comprehension of third grade students. "A Skills Oriented Curriculum to Teach Listening," by Metfessel and Hammond, was used to instruct the students, who were then tested to determine whether it had had an effect.…

This study examined the concurrent validity of observed teacher behavior as a predictor of teacher philosophy, teacher professional attitude, and teacher ability to forecast first-grade reading achievement. The population consisted of ten first-grade teachers and 260 students from five Farmington, Utah, schools. In early September, before any…

The purpose of this study was to develop the "Like to Read" program, to determine if this program promoted significant positive changes in sixth-grade students' attitudes toward reading, and to determine if it resulted in a significant gain in reading achievement. Nine sixth-grade classes in the public schools of upper East Tennessee were divided…

Devoted to the affective dimensions of learning to read, this study examined (1) the relationship between reading self-concept at the beginning of first grade and measured reading achievement at the middle of first grade, and (2) the relationships between change in first grade reading self-concept and patterns of observed successes in reading. In…

The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which a preassessment of motor development and perceptual skills predicts achievement in word recognition for kindergarten children. The instruments used for evaluation were the Lincoln-Oseretsky Motor Development Scale, Thurstone's Identical Forms Test, Wepman Auditory Discrimination Test,…