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Download full textMiller, John W.; Arnold, Richard D. – 1974
The purpose of this study was to determine the disruptive effect of unknown words on reading and to examine this effect in relationship to grammatical position and modification type. Forty second grade children from two different lower middle class, semirural schools were randomly assigned to the standardization group or the experimental group.…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grammar, Oral Reading, Reading
Lauritzen, Carol Anne Fling – 1976
The purpose of this study was to examine the ability of 32 kindergarten, first, second, and third grade children to comprehend selected grammatical features, to explain the meaning of these grammatical features and to produce them while reading orally. It was found that there were significant differences among tasks, grammatical features, and…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Primary Education
Peer reviewedKelly, Leonard P. – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1994
A study with 18 deaf high school students found that skills that actually contribute to reading proficiency included use of prior text information, prior knowledge, reading speed and consistency, use of active memory for function words and inflections, and correct processing of relative clauses and the passive voice. Instructional implications are…
Descriptors: Deafness, Grammar, High Schools, Prior Learning
Emans, Robert; Urbas. Raymond – J Reading, 1969
Descriptors: English Literature, Essays, Grade 10, Grammar
PDF pending restorationRyan, Ellen Bouchard; Ledger, George W. – 1978
A total of 19 good and 19 poor readers participated in an examination of the extent to which first grade children who were successful beginning readers would exhibit better syntactic skills in auditory and reading tasks than would less successful readers. To isolate differences specifically related to sentence processing skills, the two groups…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Context Clues, Grade 1
Raymond, James C., Ed. – 1982
First presented as papers in a symposium on literacy conducted at the University of Alabama, essays in this volume explore three areas of human literacy--law, linguistics, and the English language; testing; and literacy's relation with culture and human consciousness. Following an introduction examining literacy as a human problem, the following…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Influences, Educational Theories
Shuman, R. Baird – 1978
The purpose of this book is to deal with pressing problems encountered by secondary teachers in teaching reading, through synthesizing pertinent research and suggesting classroom applications. Its 16 chapters deal with the following topics: the teen-aged nonreader; complicating factors in the teaching of reading; a school-wide attack on reading…
Descriptors: Dialects, Educational Problems, English Instruction, Grammar
