The reliability of short versus long passages in informal reading inventories was compared. After 132 fourth grade students were tested with the Standard Reading Inventory, Form B, they read longer passages in either the oral or silent modes. Students with higher silent reading scores read long passages orally, while students with higher oral…

The relatively few empirical studies that have concentrated on the relationship between television and children's interest and achievement in reading reflect two schools of thought. One group assumes a negative relationship, hypothesizing that time previously devoted to reading has been replaced by increased television viewing. Research in this…

It was reasoned that readers who have difficulty processing intersentence relationships to discover main ideas of paragraphs would be among those identified as weak comprehenders by a standardized test measure. To test the hypotheses related to this premise, 48 community college students designated as good and poor comprehenders on main idea items…

The Primary Skills Program for Kindergarten through Grade 2 was evaluated in terms of its educational, parent involvement, and staff development components. Cross-sectional achievement data were analyzed to provide a picture of the primary skills performance in reading and mathematics as compared to performance of the total city, each district,…

A total of 162 elementary school children who were underachieving in reading were selected to participate in a supplementary program that used paperback books to improve reading competency. Exit scores were predicted for each student. The program focused on the following components: encouraging students to read from a wide selection of readily…

WHEN THEY INDIVIDUALIZE READING INSTRUCTION, TEACHERS SHOULD REALIZE THAT CHILDREN ARE VERY DIFFERENT AND THAT CONTINUOUS APPRAISAL OF EACH CHILD'S ATTRIBUTES AND NEEDS IS IMPERATIVE. TEACHERS SHOULD UTILIZE INFORMAL EVALUATIVE TECHNIQUES FOR APPRAISING GROWTH IN READING SKILLS. READINESS FOR BEGINNING READING IS DETERMINED BY OBSERVING PERSONAL…

A METHOD OF TREATING READING DEFICITS BASED UPON AN EXTRINSIC MOTIVATIONAL SYSTEM PREVIOUSLY EMPLOYED SUCCESSFULLY WITH A SINGLE SUBJECT WAS EXTENDED TO 18 ADDITIONAL SUBJECTS. THE JUNIOR HIGH AGE SUBJECTS INCLUDED RETARDED CHILDREN IN SPECIAL CLASSES, SEVERAL EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED CHILDREN, AND CULTURALLY DEPRIVED CHILDREN. THE METHOD OF TRAINING…

FOUR NULL HYPOTHESES WERE TESTED TO EVALUATE SELECTED READING READINESS TESTS AS PREDICTORS OF FIRST-GRADE READING ACHIEVEMENT. FIVE SCHOOLS IN THE BANGOR, MAINE, CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM WERE RANDOMLY CHOSEN. IN EACH SCHOOL, ONE CLASS USED THE EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM WHICH EMPHASIZED SUPPLEMENTARY VOCABULARY INSTRUCTION WITH READINESS TRAINING. ANOTHER…

THE EFFECT OF USING SIMULTANEOUS BIMODAL INPUTS ON THE COMPREHENSION OF CONNECTED DISCOURSE FOR IMPROVING THE READING AND LISTENING SKILLS OF EDUCATIONALLY MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN WAS STUDIED. SUBJECTS WERE STUDENTS BETWEEN THE AGES OF 12 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AND 17 YEARS, 11 MONTHS WHOSE MEASURED INTELLIGENCE WAS BETWEEN 54 AND 86. THE STUDENTS…

THE AMOUNT AND KIND OF READING DONE BY COLLEGE FRESHMEN AND THE NUMBER OF HOURS DEVOTED TO IT DURING AN ACADEMIC YEAR WERE RELATED TO APTITUDE AS MEASURED BY THE AMERICAN COLLEGE TESTING PROGRAM BATTERY (ACT) AND GRADE POINT AVERAGE. TIME CHART FORMS WERE USED TO COLLECT THE DATA. CHARTS WERE KEPT BY OHIO UNIVERSITY FRESHMEN MEN FOR 28 WEEKS. THE…

THE FINAL REPORT FOR THE COORDINATED FIRST-GRADE STUDIES FROM THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION IS PRESENTED. THE STUDIES INVESTIGATED THE FOLLOWING--(1) TO WHAT EXTENT PUPIL, TEACHER, CLASS, SCHOOL, AND COMMUNITY CHARACTERISTICS ARE RELATED TO FIRST-GRADE READING AND SPELLING ACHIEVEMENT, (2) WHICH APPROACH TO INITIAL READING INSTRUCTION PRODUCES SUPERIOR…

AN INTERIM REPORT OF A 3-YEAR STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE INITIAL TEACHING ALPHABET (ITA) AND THE PEABODY LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT KITS (PLDK) WITH UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN IN BEGINNING READING AND IN STIMULATING ORAL LANGUAGE AND VERBAL INTELLIGENCE IS PRESENTED. FIVE EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS AND ONE CONTROL GROUP WERE DERIVED FROM 17 CLASSES IN…

THE ACHIEVEMENT TEST PERFORMANCES OF TWO GROUPS OF CHILDREN FOR GRADES 1, 2, AND 3 IN TWO PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, SCHOOLS WERE COMPARED TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A 3-YEAR EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM USING THE PHONOVISUAL METHOD OF READING INSTRUCTION. PUPILS WERE MATCHED ON SEX, IQ, AND CHRONOLOGICAL AGE. DIFFERENCES OBSERVED BETWEEN THE MEAN SCORES…

AN INVESTIGATION WAS MADE TO GAUGE THE EFFECTS OF AN INTENSIVE, INSERVICE TRAINING PROGRAM ON TEACHERS' CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR AND READING ACHIEVEMENT OF PUPILS TAUGHT BY PARTICIPATING TEACHERS. A TOTAL OF 30 FIRST-GRADE TEACHERS VOLUNTEERED FOR PARTICIPATION. ONE-HALF OF THIS TOTAL WAS ASSIGNED TO AN EXPERIMENTAL GROUP, AND THE OTHER HALF TO A…

The decay in the quality of education is due to a breakdown in authority the schools have over students and educational processes. Emphasis must be placed on the school's power to determine minimum competencies through periodic evaluation, and, if necessary, to prescribe remedial education or grade repetition. Schools should have special reading…