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Download full textKoals, Marie B. – 1993
A study identified a list of trade books that educators selected for use in their own classrooms and a list of factors that they considered to be the most important when selecting those books. Subjects, 486 educators who taught in grades 4, 5, or 6 in 45 public school districts and 15 private schools in southeastern Pennsylvania, identified two…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Reading Instruction, Reading Interests, Reading Material Selection
Booth, James R.; Hall, William S. – 1994
A study compared students' cognitive word knowledge of the cognates of "think" and "know" within a theoretical framework focused on hierarchical levels of meaning. Subjects were 31 fifth, 32 seventh, and 21 tenth graders attending single-gender private schools in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, and 70 college…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intermediate Grades, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension
Commeyras, Michelle; And Others – 1992
A study investigated whether reading instruction that emphasizes critical thinking would benefit "learning-disabled" fifth-grade students. Seven students were assigned to an instructional group that participated in a program of 10 dialogical-thinking reading lessons and 7 were assigned to a comparison group that remained with the…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Grade 5, Instructional Effectiveness
Preul, Karen; Dewitz, Peter – 1986
A study compared the relative effectiveness of a direct instruction method for finding the main idea in a text with a method that combined direct instruction with a checklist that encouraged the students to monitor their application of the main idea strategy. Subjects, 56 fifth-graders at a suburban elementary school, were divided into one of…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
Schunk, Dale H.; Rice, Jo Mary – 1988
A study investigated the effects of goal setting on children's self-efficacy and skillful performance during reading comprehension instruction. Subjects, 17 fourth graders and 16 fifth graders from one elementary school, had regularly received remedial reading comprehension instruction. Subjects were administered a pretest consisting of a…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Grade 4, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Blake, Susan M. – 1988
A study tested the hypothesis that the self-esteem of a group of six sixth graders would be raised through the employment of a bibliotherapeutic program. Self-esteem was measured before and after the program by the "Culture-Free Self-Esteem Inventory for Children Form A." The subjects, who were from low, average, and above average reading groups,…
Descriptors: Bibliotherapy, Grade 6, Group Dynamics, Intermediate Grades
Erazmus, Thomas R. – 1987
Using the Pizza Hut "Book It" Program which encouraged students to read a certain number of books per month, a study examined the effect of this program on standardized test scores. Subjects, 98 fifth grade students, were placed in high, middle, or low reading groups according to teacher assessment. Half of the students from each group…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Independent Reading, Intermediate Grades, Reading Ability
Nicholson, Doris – 1984
A study investigated the effectiveness of teaching children how to take reading comprehension tests. Twenty-eight fifth grade students were pretested using the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test, Survey D, Form I. The students were tested on speed and accuracy, vocabulary, and comprehension. Students were given 30 minutes of daily instruction and…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Performance Factors, Reading Comprehension
Lonberger, Rosemary B. – 1989
A study examined the effects of training in a self-generated learning strategy on students' ability to comprehend text and self-monitor their understanding while engaging in strategic text processing. The study also explored the extent to which grade level and passage difficulty interacted with training to produce treatment effects. Subjects, 36…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Grade 4, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Sedarat, Nassir; Otto, Wayne – J Reading Behav, 1969
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Association (Psychology), Females, Intelligence
Peer reviewedDavis, John E. – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Critical Reading, Intermediate Grades, Reading Improvement
McAfee, Deurelle – 1981
A study investigated the effects of sentence combining instruction on the reading comprehension and writing maturity of fifth grade children. The sample consisted of an experimental and a control group with 25 children in each group. For 6 weeks the experimental group received instruction in sentence combining, defined for purposes of the study as…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension
Ryan, Ellen Bouchard; And Others – 1981
Twenty-four sixth grade students participated in a study that adapted earlier reading research to determine whether students would demonstrate sensitivity to the presence or absence of a relevant schema in a passage and whether skilled readers would show more use of the schema than would less skilled readers. Six skilled and six less skilled…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Reading Comprehension
Escoe, Adrienne S. – 1981
Prepared as part of a continuing study of the instructional practices that make up the process of schooling, this paper concentrates on the practices that comprise reading comprehension instruction. The paper focuses on four skills commonly taught and assessed as part of many widely used reading comprehension instruction programs in the…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Learning Processes, Learning Theories, Reading Comprehension
LANE, H.L.; WILSON, F.R. – 1967
THE LABELING AND DISCRIMINATION OF COLORS WERE STUDIED IN CHILDREN WITH PRIMARY READING RETARDATION AND IN A MATCHED GROUP OF NORMAL CHILDREN. TEN MALE STUDENTS IN MICHIGAN REPRESENTING AN AGE RANGE OF 9 YEARS 10 MONTHS TO 14 YEARS 10 MONTHS WERE CHOSEN AS SUBJECTS. DEVELOPMENTAL, MEDICAL, EDUCATIONAL, NEUROLOGICAL, PSYCHIATRIC, AND PSYCHOMETRIC…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Males, Matched Groups, Neurological Impairments
