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Grisham, Sharon K. – 1991
A practicum addressed the below-average reading comprehension performance of first graders by the implementation of precision teaching and specific solution strategies. Students (51) were actively involved in their own learning and decision making through the continuous monitoring system of precision teaching. Reading techniques called RAP (an…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Grade 1, Precision Teaching
Download full textBednar, Maryanne R.; Kletzien, Sharon B. – 1990
A preliminary study investigated the value of the Dynamic Assessment Procedure (DAP) for understanding reading behaviors of at-risk high-school-age students. The study also sought to determine teacher interest in and ability to use the DAP information to develop instructional plans. Subjects, 19 students with reading difficulties enrolled in 1…
Descriptors: Case Studies, High Risk Students, High School Students, High Schools
Cronin, Mary C.; And Others – 1990
This document (two manuals combined) offers a practical, straightforward means of evaluating the reading level of students in French immersion classes at the elementary level. The evaluator's manual features a good review of the relevant publications in the field and provides clear, detailed descriptions of each of three reading levels, the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, FLES, Foreign Countries, French
Sainz, JoAnn; Biggins, Catherine M. – 1992
Research has specifically linked dropping out of school to reading disabilities and related problems. Research on reading as a cognitive task has focused on reading as an active process with three questions of concern: (1) How does the learner learn to identify the printed word?; (2) How does he or she discriminate one word from another word?; and…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education, Functional Literacy, High Risk Students
Durgunoglu, Aydin Y.; And Others – 1991
A study investigated the factors influencing the English word identification performance of Spanish-speaking beginning readers. Thirty-two Spanish-speaking students (in kindergarten and first grade) from two urban schools who were identified as beginning, nonfluent readers were administered tests of letter naming, Spanish phonemic awareness,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Limited English Speaking, Multiple Regression Analysis, Phonemes
Fillmore, Charles J.; Kay, Paul – 1983
The Berkeley Reading Tests Project has selected as its principal object of study standardized tests of reading comprehension. The interest is in the assessment of such tests, with respect to their performance as measures of the reading comprehension abilities of school children. A serious study of the assessment of reading comprehension requires…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Interviews
Pehrsson, Robert S. – 1982
A study was conducted to determine the validity of the Op-In procedure in measuring global comprehension and to identify patterns of integrative thinking similar to those of pilot study subjects. The Op-In procedure is a type of cloze procedure that deletes every other sentence ending from a passage. Three sixth grade level scientific passages…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education
Hoffman, Stevie – 1981
A problem solving process has been created for analyzing descriptive data obtained from the language transactions between parents and children during a shared reading event. Use of other instruments and observations of videotaped interactions led to a classification of reading event components and to a coding system containing items in the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Interaction Process Analysis
Gillespie, Cindy – 1989
A great deal can be taught using the newspaper because this medium contains a variety of information in a number of differing formats. Straight news and sports stories can be used to teach or reinforce the skills of attending to detail, comparing and contrasting, categorizing, determining the main idea, understanding vocabulary, sequencing,…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials, Media Adaptation
Langer, Judith A. – 1989
A qualitative study examined the ways in which middle school and high school students create meanings when they are reading literary and non-literary texts. Subjects, 18 seventh-grade and 18 eleventh-grade students attending schools in an inner city or a suburban school district and judged by their teachers to be either above, at, or below average…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Grade 11, Grade 7, Prose
Worley, Demetrice A. – 1990
Elements from literary, composition, and reader-response theory can be successfully combined in teaching an African-American literature class to college students of the dominant culture. Helping students to decode texts is of primary importance, best done by introducing students to the cultural codes used by minority writers to shape their themes.…
Descriptors: Black Literature, College English, Cultural Context, Cultural Traits
Goetz, Ernest T.; And Others – 1990
A study reanalyzed data from two previous studies to investigate (1) validity of imagery ratings and reports as measures of reader response to a story, and (2) similarity of final regression models for recall and imagery reports. Imagery and affect ratings of story paragraphs were found to predict both imagery reports and recall of a second,…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Emotional Response, Higher Education, Imagery
Casteel, Mark A. – 1989
A study examined how both children and adults process inferences when reading prose. Subjects, 24 third-, fifth-, and eighth-graders, and adults, read stories where a consequence was implied, and then answered questions. The stories differed in the degree to which the inference was necessary for comprehension, and the readers engaged in either…
Descriptors: Adults, Analysis of Variance, Elementary Education, Grade 3
Baker, John C., Jr. – 1990
A study was conducted to write an ethnographic description of how the influences of the reader's culture and the culture depicted in a text are associated with the responses of first-semester college freshmen to a series of contemporary Appalachian short stories. Cultural backgrounds of six informants and the cultures depicted in six stories were…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context, Cultural Influences
Woodley, John W. – 1984
Eighty-two undergraduate and graduate students at a major southwestern university participated in a study integrating reading research utilizing tachistoscopes with current knowledge based on analysis of reading connected texts. A tachistoscope was used to examine the nature of visual perception in relation to the ability of the subjects to apply…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Reading Ability
