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Traylor, Tera B.; Price, Katherine W.; Meisinger, Elizabeth B. – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2011
The Test of Silent Contextual Reading Fluency (TOSCRF; Hammill, Wiederholt, & Allen, 2006), as its name implies, is designed to measure contextualized silent reading fluency in students aged 7 to 18. Its purposes are to identify good and poor readers, to measure contextual fluency, and to monitor reading development. The TOSCRF measures how…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Silent Reading, Reading Fluency
Manitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. Curriculum Development Branch. – 1987
Based on an integrated approach to reading instruction, this report of the 1985 Manitoba Reading Assessment includes a reading survey test, with an individual measure of listening-speaking and oral and silent reading performance, a reading interest inventory, and a teacher questionnaire. The 1985 Assessment also re-administered selected items from…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Listening
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Sheorey, Ravi; And Others – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1995
Reports on the reading habits of native-English speaking and nonnative-English speaking undergraduate college students who completed a reading habits questionnaire. Results revealed that nonnative students read more widely for longer periods of time and had higher perceptions of themselves as readers in their native language than did…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Ghelani, Karen; Sidhu, Robindra; Jain, Umesh; Tannock, Rosemary – Dyslexia, 2004
Reading comprehension is a very complex task that requires different cognitive processes and reading abilities over the life span. There are fewer studies of reading comprehension relative to investigations of word reading abilities. Reading comprehension difficulties, however, have been identified in two common and frequently overlapping…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Reading Skills, Attention Deficit Disorders
Botel, Morton; And Others – 1979
The New Brunswick (Canada) Comprehensive Reading/Language Arts Plan (NBCRP) is an integrative framework of goals not only for a developmental reading/language arts program but also for the special students regardless of classification. The NBCRP proposes three major categories of action: (1) the institution and improvement of a reading/language…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, English Curriculum