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Download full textWilkinson, Ian; And Others – 1986
Results reported by Leinhardt, Zigmond, and Cooley (1981) have been interpreted as support for increased silent reading in classroom reading instruction. G. Leinhardt and colleagues examined a causal model of classroom processes influencing reading achievement and found that time spent in silent, rather than oral, reading was positively related to…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Processes, Models
Haugh, Eleanor K. – 1979
The relationship between first graders' listening comprehension and reading comprehension was examined in a study involving 64 children. Two forms of the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test, Primary A, were administered--one orally and one silently. No significant difference was found between the mean score of the silent test and that of the oral test.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Language Skills, Listening Comprehension
Gunn, V. Patricia; Elkins, John – 1976
This paper discusses the relationship between cloze demands and reading comprehension and describes a cloze program used in a third-grade classroom. A series of exercises, including word attack, sentence completion, and vocabulary-development tasks, were given regularly by teachers to the students in their third-grade classrooms. Included in the…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education, Primary Education, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedHolmes, Betty C.; Allison, Roy W. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1985
Reports on a study that investigated which of four modes of reading (oral reading to an audience, oral reading to oneself, silent reading, silent reading while listening) best facilitates fifth-grade students' comprehension. Concludes that for these students as a whole, comparable comprehension may be expected when they read to themselves or read…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedBurge, Paul D. – Reading Horizons, 1983
Concludes that oral reading should be given additional emphasis in the elementary grades. (FL)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Grade 4
Peer reviewedCunningham, James W.; Caplan, Robert M. – Reading World, 1982
Finds support for the concurrent validity of miscue analysis as a measure of the silent reading processes of elementary school students with respect to the dimensions of syntactic and semantic strength. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Grade 5, Grade 6
Peer reviewedMyles, Brenda Smith; Hilgenfeld, Tracy D.; Barnhill, Gena P.; Griswold, Deborah E.; Hagiwara, Taku; Simpson, Richard L. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2002
A study examined the reading performance of 16 individuals (ages 6-16) with Asperger syndrome. The Classroom Reading Inventory found students exhibited reading levels commensurate with their grade levels on Instructional, Frustration, and Listening Capacity. Silent Reading and Independent Reading levels, however, were below grade level. (Contains…
Descriptors: Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education
PDF pending restorationDucy-Perez, Ellen – 1991
This paper summarizes a study conducted to determine whether sustained silent reading (SSR) can contribute to improvement in grammar and reading comprehension in university academic English as a foreign language (EFL) courses. A total of 186 beginning and intermediate students enrolled in the English for Academic Purposes program at the…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Intervention
Miller, Samuel D.; Smith, Donald E. P. – 1984
To test the assumption that questions measuring literal comprehension and those measuring inferential comprehension are equally valid indices for both oral and silent reading tests at all skill levels, questions from the Analytic Reading Inventory were classified as either literal or inferential. Subjects, 94 children in grades two to five, read…
Descriptors: Differences, Elementary Education, Oral Reading, Reading Ability
Hunt, Russell A.; Vipond, Douglas – 1987
To learn more about how people read literary texts, with a view to improving the way literature is taught in schools, a study examined the extent to which the reading of literature is affected by variations in readers, texts, and situations. Subjects, 12 skilled (faculty) readers and 96 novice (undergraduate) readers, read a short story, either in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Figurative Language, Higher Education, Literature Appreciation
Kurth, Ruth J.; Kurth, Lila M. – 1987
A study examined the use of time reserved for formal reading instruction in elementary schools. Subjects were 36 elementary classroom teachers--12 each from grades 1, 3, and 5--in 8 suburban schools. Specific reading instruction behaviors for each teacher were observed during two complete periods of the regularly scheduled reading classes. Teacher…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Oral Reading, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Blass, Rosanne J.; Jurenka, Nancy E. Allen – 1987
A study examined the extent to which third and fourth grade classroom teachers utilized commonly recommended practices for the use of children's literature. A 39 item questionnaire was constructed and then mailed to 600 third and fourth grade classroom teachers in eight urban and suburban public school districts in Southern California and…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Early Reading, Independent Reading
Smith, Lyle R. – 1984
The organization of social studies classroom communication and the format for presenting such communication were investigated. High school students (n=282) were assigned to groups determined by the possible combinations of lesson organization, also referred to as lesson commonality (high versus medium versus low), method of reading (oral versus…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Content Area Reading, Educational Research
Combs, Carol; Van Dusseldorp, Ralph – 1984
A study was conducted to determine the attitudes of teachers and students toward a program of uninterrupted sustained silent reading (USSR) operating in their school. The 14 teachers and 136 students in grades three through six were questioned about their attitudes toward the program. Teachers were also asked for opinions about USSR's effect on…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Reading Attitudes
Layton, James R. – 1978
The distinguishing characteristics and relationships found among the "Analytical Reading Inventory," the "Durrell Analysis of Reading Difficulty," and the Spache "Diagnostic Reading Scales" in terms of readability levels, oral and silent reading results, and independent and instructional reading levels were examined in a study involving 117 first,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Oral Reading, Readability
