Indicates that primary grade teachers do individualize their responses to match variations in reading miscues. Specifically, they were apt to disregard meaning-based mistakes, provide instruction when letter cues were misused, and instruct or supply words when a child hesitated on or refused to attempt a word. (FL)

Reports that good elementary school readers corrected more miscues than did poor readers, that poor readers relied more on graphophonemics to make corrections than did good readers, and that there were small differences between both groups' use of semantics and syntax to make corrections except as material increased in difficulty. (FL)