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Belcher, Mary S. – 1973
Eighty disadvantaged black third grade students were administered both reading achievement and oral language tests to determine whether the phonology, morphology, and grammar of Black English dialect have more effect on the below-average readers of the group than on those students making satisfactory reading progress. Student scores on the…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Language Usage
BLAND, DAVID HORTON – 1968
THIS STUDY INVESTIGATED THE LEVELS OF ACHIEVEMENT IN BOTH READING AND COMPUTATION AS THEY WERE ASSOCIATED WITH SELECTED INDEPENDENT VARIABLES--AGE, OFFENSE, AND GRADE COMPLETION IN SCHOOL. INMATES WERE SELECTED FROM ALL CLASSES OF AGE, TYPE OF CUSTODY AND TYPE OF OFFENSE. GROUP I INCLUDED 597 SUBJECTS WHO HAD NOT REACHED FOURTH GRADE. GROUP II…
Descriptors: Achievement, Age Differences, Arithmetic, Correctional Institutions
Download full textYLISTO, INGRID P. – 1968
TO TEST THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE READING PROCESS IS A NATURAL EMERGENCE OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT, A HYPOTHETICAL STRUCTURE WAS DEVISED TO RECAPITULATE THE PROCESS THAT IT IS ASSUMED THE CHILD GOES THROUGH. EACH OF 25 PRINTED WORD SYMBOLS WAS PRESENTED IN THE FOLLOWING ORDER--(1) A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE SYMBOL IN ITS NATURAL SETTING, (2) A DRAWING OF THE…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Context Clues, Early Reading, Language Acquisition
Rosen, Carl L. – American Journal of Optometry, 1968
To investigate the effects of perceptual training upon selected measures of reading achievement in grade 1, 12 experimental classrooms of randomly selected first graders received a 29-day adaptation of the Frostig Program for the Development of Visual Perception. Thirteen control classes added comparable time to the regular reading instructional…
Descriptors: Eye Hand Coordination, Grade 1, Perceptual Development, Predictive Measurement
Herber, Harold L.
The effectiveness of teaching specific, related reading skills within a content subject was tested in seventh-grade science classes. Comparisons were made among seventh graders who were taught no reading skills in conjunction with a content subject, seventh graders who received instruction in reading skills within the social studies content, and…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Developmental Reading, Reading Achievement, Reading Material Selection
Muller, Dorothy Hiott – 1976
A sample of 180 students in fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh grades participated in a study of the effect of age on the precision of interpretation of metaphorical language. All students read at or above fourth grade level. Metaphorical-language interpretation ability was measured by a 38-item instrument developed by the investigator using…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Secondary Education
Eberwein, Lowell D. – 1978
Teacher confusion about what reading skills to teach and how to teach them can be decreased by the use of a problem solving, questioning model for instructional decision making. The following 12 qeustions can be used as a procedure for structuring teacher observation of student performance on a daily basis. Is the skill essential to the student's…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Informal Reading Inventories, Reading Achievement, Reading Diagnosis
Rogers, John R. – 1978
Regardless of their educational or financial level, parents have a twofold responsibility for their child's development in reading. First, they must inform themselves: this involves both developing a clear understanding of reading as a process of active, selective thinking and obtaining an accurate account of their child's reading level and…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Participation, Parent Responsibility
Kaplan, Sandra Anderson – 1971
A study was conducted to investigate the facilitation of learning word pairs (paired associate learning) using connected text rather than the unrelated, simple sentences of previous research. Each of 64 fifth graders, classified as either a high or a low reading achiever, was assigned to one of four presentation conditions: (1) hear sentences/read…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 5, High Achievement, Intermediate Grades
Enochs, J. Romily – 1977
The study identified the perceptions of American Indian and non-Indian teachers of Indian students in order to determine the effect of their perceptions on the reading achievement of Indian first-grade students. Subjects were 4 female teachers of 72 Indian first-grade students enrolled in Federal elementary schools located in North Central…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indians, Grade 1, Minority Group Teachers
Hillerich, Robert L. – 1975
Concern about typical early identification procedures used with kindergarten children to predict potential reading failure is expressed in this paper. A diagnostic procedure for screening kindergarten children and then prescribing an individualized program for each child is described. The screening battery--Prediction with Diagnostic Qualities…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Individualized Reading, Kindergarten, Language Acquisition
Van Boven, John – 1973
A program of instruction was designed to promote positive self-concept in elementary school students in order to test the hypothesis that such self-concept is necessary for academic achievement and desirable behavior. Twenty students who were performing at a year below grade level in reading and math were selected for the study. These students…
Descriptors: Achievement, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Low Achievement
Pessah, Nathan – 1975
The purposes of this study are to ascertain the effectiveness of the cloze procedure when used as part of the remedial reading instruction in community college classes, and to determine if one type of teaching presentation--using the cloze procedure--is significantly superior to another. One hundred students from Bronx Community College who…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Disadvantaged Youth, Minority Groups, Reading Achievement
Creemers, Bert P. M. – 1976
Two components of teaching are tasksetting behavior and optimizing behavior. The former is the actions of the teacher to achieve the goals of teaching a specific curriculum; the latter is the actions of the teacher to improve or accelerate the pupil's learning. Reading and physical education teachers were studied to investigate the relationship…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Objectives, Physical Education
Austin, Gilbert R.; And Others – 1974
Baseline data on change in reading achievement over summer vacation in the absence of summer school were obtained for two groups of middle-class children. The Cognitive Abilities Test (CAT) and the reading comprehension subtest of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills were administered in May to 172 third graders and 207 seventh graders. An alternate form…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Elementary Education, Environmental Influences
