Written primarily for teachers of elderly students and for elderly readers, this manual provides information about the elderly reader, about language, and about the reading process itself. The first chapter contains a review of current research on elderly readers that provides information about the materials they like to read, the materials they…

The performance of 35 students with low and medium reading scores who took a reading and study skills course at a community college was compared with that of 27 students who had similar reading skills (as judged on a standardized test) but who did not take the reading course. Comparisons were made in the areas of the number of semester hours each…

NEW MATERIALS, METHODS, AND RESEARCHERS WERE ASSEMBLED TO PROVIDE A RESEARCH-BASED MODEL FOR A NEW CURRICULUM IN THE TEACHING OF READING. PROCEDURAL METHODS, THE INTERRELATED FUNCTIONS, AND BASES OF READING-LEARNING WERE DISCUSSED IN A SERIES OF FOUR RESEARCH PLANNING CONFERENCES. ANALYSES AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF ALL THE STUDIES INITIATED HAVE NOT…

This document, prepared by the Evaluation System of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia, summarizes the results of analyses of factors affecting reading achievement for elementary students for the year 1976-77. It also provides comparisons with results obtained from analyses of the 1975-76 data. It includes the purpose and scope of the…

This study was designed to determine whether third-year pupils in a reading center project maintained their reading gains 16 months after leaving the program. Subjects consisted of two control groups and an experimental group--a random sample of third-year pupils enrolled at the reading center during the fall of the 1972-1973 school year.…

The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of the cloze procedure as an additional means of speeding up the process of determining a child's mathematical reading abilities. Two cloze mathematical reading tests (CMRT) of equal length were constructed. The tests averaged 250 words each and every fifth word was deleted. One cloze…

This anthology, prepared by adapting existing material, contains a synoptic review of the Human Resources Research Organization research program on literacy in relation to job performance. In several of the chapters, the adaptations include the addition of new material to integrate and interpret the findings from the various phases of the research…

In this paper, Piagetian stages are discussed in relation to the internalization of key vocabulary words by children. Research studies that indicate a parallel development using Sylvia Ashton-Warner's idea of key vocabulary of children are briefly discussed. The author agrees that three studies do not completely prove a hypothesis, however they…

This investigation probed whether the reading acheivement of second-grade children would be increased significantly by the addition of a quality literature program of tri-weekly oral reading experiences provided by elementary education majors. Twelve intact and heterogeneously grouped second-grade classes participated in the study. Twelve…

Research on the use of underlining or typographical cueing to improve both immediate and delayed recall of prose material by high school students is described and analyzed. Student underlining (with and without prior underlining instruction) instructor underlining, and noncued reading of a study-type material were examined, along with interactions…

This ESEA/Title I project reports a longitudinal comparison of pupils from 21 More Effective Schools (MES) with pupils from nine control schools in New York City. The Metropolitan Achievement Tests were administered to pupils in grades 2 through 6 in all MES and in selected control schools. Alternate forms were used at initial testing time in…

This study examined the assumption that language expression and reading performance are related processes. Subjects included a total of 676 nine-year-old children of heterogeneous socioeconomic status, intelligence, and achievement levels. Verbal fluency was defined as being a measure of associative verbal encoding (a/v/e), wherein children give…

This book includes five reports of educational therapeutic work done with reading disabled children. Reports 1-3 describe innovative procedures practiced with individual children. Report 2 describes an experiment with a group of young children who in their second year at school had made scarcely any progress in reading. The procedures described,…

The purpose of this study to determine if information high in the logical structure of a passage tends to be recalled better than information low in the structure. Two groups of 24 Cornell undergraduates participated in the experiment. Subjects in each group read and recalled three passages. Group one read the Breeder Reactor High, Schizophrenia…