Being a reading mentor to students, colleagues, or friends is one key strategy in the development and promotion of a wide variety of reading interests. Readers serve as mentors by passive means, such as indicating how much they read, being able to name the last book recommended to them, displaying their books visibly, and maintaining their…

On the assumption that the absence of remedial students in the classroom permits enriched instruction to take place, this study examined the reading achievement gains of those first graders who remain in the classroom while their project-eligible classmates leave for reading instruction. Metropolitan Readiness Test stanine scores were used for…

Ninety-seven developmentally disabled mentally retarded persons (aged 10 to 48 years) living in an institution, in group homes, or at home were trained in environmental language, speech, and reading skills using a game oriented multisensory approach. The evening tutorial program consisted of 20 sessions over a 6 month period. A pedagogic and task…

A study was conducted to determine whether explicit instructions could be as effective as paraphrased adjunct questions in enhancing subjects' reading comprehension. Eighty-six United States Navy enlisted men were assigned to one of four groups and given a lengthy passage from the "Naval Orientation Manual" to read. Following the…

At the University of California, Riverside, a structured, formal adjunct program coordinated with large introductory courses has been developed to improve students' reading and study skills. The program uses adjunct instructors who are specialists in reading and study skills and who are familiar with the content areas. Skills taught include time…

This paper reviews some of the physiological characteristics of the reading act, including the structure of the eye and the limits and focusing area of eye fixations. It then outlines a four-part method for increasing reading rates of reading both easy and study-type materials, a method that can be used over 20 one-hour sessions with students who…

Thirty-five children with reading problems received lessons by mail for 6 weeks in the summer. Lessons included illustrations and pictures and provided tokens for motivation. Significant differences were found in pre- and posttest gains in reading achievement between Ss and a control group. Subsequent studies demonstrated further value of…

University and college reading improvement teachers need a repertoire of techniques designed to guide carefully students' growth in developing independent comprehension strategies. Such strategies should avoid use of prepackaged commercial kits and collections of articles (content-simulated materials) and should stress the application by students…

This paper argues that there must be opportunities for students to pursue recreational reading in a developmental reading program. Some of the considerations suggested for teachers of reading who want to encourage their students to read for recreation include relieving some of the pressures under which many students are forced to operate, knowing…

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…

Working in cooperation with reading specialists, English teachers designed a program to meet the needs of a class of seventh graders with reading disabilities. The reading specialist role was expanded from that of small consultant to include actual classroom instructor. The teaching of literature and reading skills was facilitated through the…

It is generally assumed that students possess the ability to apply abstract reasoning to content material in a variety of disciplines when they enter college. Yet many college students have not reached the level of formal operations defined by Jean Piaget; thus they experience difficulty in coping with their work. A solution to this dilemma can be…

This study was designed to investigate the construction of a new measure for assessing reading performance which would prove to be a more sensitive and useful instrument for measuring the achievement growth induced by reading programs than the usual standardized tests. This report outlines the procedures followed in generating the model and…

Numerous controversies pertain to the psychology and pedagogy of reading. Among the more important controversies are questions pertaining to the existence of a hierarchy of reading subskills and the advisability of using a subskill approach. Several influential writers have warned that when the process of learning to read is fractionated into…

This paper describes the Pre Technical Learning Lab at the Utah Technical College at Provo which is aimed at providing individualized instruction and tutoring to meet the varied needs of the students. The contents include: "Assessment of Student Needs," which discusses pupil teacher conferences, initial reading assessment, reading tests used for…