Much research has been conducted on reading levels of elementary school students. Teachers search for learning experiences that lend inclusion to all genders and levels. How does this all lay out for the students? The initial trial of the study looks into the impact and differences of gender and/or reading level on areas such as school enjoyment,…

This study was designed to determine the contributions of metalinguistic skill and psycholinguistic processing ability to children's ability to detect the ambiguity of sentences and the relationship among all three factors to early reading ability. A total of 20 first graders and 20 second graders were given tasks testing the following abilities:…

THIS STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO TEST THE VALIDITY OF RESPONSE LATENCY AS A BEHAVIORAL INDEX TO READING. CHILDREN IN GRADES 2, 3, AND 4 WERE SHOWN A RANDOMIZED LIST OF 16 WORDS CONSISTING OF EIGHT REAL WORDS AND EIGHT PSEUDOWORDS. THE TIME THEY TOOK TO GIVE A VERBAL RESPONSE TO THE WORD AFTER ITS EXPOSURE WAS MEASURED. THE RESULTS SHOWED THAT CHILDREN…

THE EFFECTS WHICH CERTAIN CORRESPONDENCES BETWEEN SPELLING AND SOUND HAVE ON READING WERE ASSESSED. THE 54 SUBJECTS WERE DRAWN IN EQUAL NUMBERS FROM GRADES 2, 3, AND 4. TO COMPARE THE RESPONSE LATENCIES AND THE ERRORS MADE WHEN READING THREE INTERMIXED LISTS OF 12 WORDS EACH, THE CHILDREN WERE ASKED TO READ ALOUD EACH WORD AS IT WAS PRESENTED ON…

This descriptive study focuses on the understandings expressed by nine second graders about themselves as readers and looks at the direct experiences of the students in their reading groups. Findings suggest that these proficient and less proficient readers hold very different perceptions of themselves as readers and that these perceptions are…