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Download full textRiverside Research Inst., New York, NY. – 1973
This feasibility study for developing a measure of effectiveness in reading contains five sections. "The Need and Requirements for a Measure of Effectiveness in Reading" presents the problem, functional specifications for a measure of effectiveness in reading, the minimum number of tasks required to uild an effectiveness measure, approaches to the…
Descriptors: Readability, Reading, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement
Yarnell, Edward A. – 1971
This pamphlet is intended for teachers and other people concerned with the teaching of reading. The sections of the pamphlet include: "Individual Differences," which looks at how schools have tried to meet the problem of individual differences; "Working with Individual Difference," which discusses what an individual brings with him to the…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Readability, Reading, Reading Achievement
Rye, James – 1982
By examining the full range of uses of the cloze procedure, this book intends to help teachers use the procedure to better understand the reading behavior of their students and to assist their students in making reading progress. Chapter 1 defines the cloze procedure and discusses the similarities and differences in reading processes when using…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Elementary Education, Readability
Bell, James H.; Johnson, Reta E. – 1992
A study investigated whether lowering the reading level of a health education pamphlet would increase comprehension by adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) readers. The reading level of a general pharmacy education handout was lowered by changing vocabulary, sentence structure, and organization, by highlighting the main idea of each point, and…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Zintz, Miles V. – 1972
This book is primarily for the in-service teacher and discusses specific practices required in corrective reading. Some of the chapters and topics include: "Appraising Reading Problems in the Classroom," which discusses steps in remedial reading, the teacher's role, causes of reading failure, characteristics of a good reading program, and the…
Descriptors: Etiology, Oral Reading, Readability, Readiness
Sainz, JoAnn; Biggins, Catherine M. – 1988
For a potential drop-out who had difficulty comprehending what she had read because she could not recognize a word, even though she often knew its meaning, a methodology for teaching word decoding provided an effective technique for achieving systematic early gains. Lessons for the eighth-grade girl followed this methodology: (1) decoding the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Content Area Reading, Decoding (Reading), Grade 8
Kincaid, J. Peter; Curry, Thomas F., Jr. – 1979
In response to the assessed need for improving the basic academic skills of United States Navy personnel, a project was undertaken to develop a relevant remedial reading workbook for Navy recruit training commands (RTCs). The workbook was designed to augment existing commercial nonmilitary oriented remedial reading materials that were being used…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Basic Skills, Military Personnel, Military Service
Schwartz, Barbara C. – 1972
A traditional reading program and an individualized reading program were compared in terms of numbers of books read by pupils in a given period, the types of books selected by the pupils, and readability levels of books selected. It was hypothesized that individualized reading pupils would read more, and that pupils in the traditional reading…
Descriptors: Developmental Reading, Grade 8, Group Reading, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1979
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 29 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: the relationship between readability of written material and reading competency of upper middle class adult readers, the economic benefits of adult basic education…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Annotated Bibliographies
