This qualitative study examines the perceptions and responses of struggling ninth-grade readers who are teaching reading to struggling second- and third-grade students in a cross-age tutoring program. The program was designed to overcome the entrenched, negative affective barriers that older students often bring to the required reading class by…

Previous studies have revealed that preschool-age children who are not yet readers pay little attention to written text in a shared book reading situation (see Evans & Saint-Aubin, 2005). The current study was aimed at investigating the constancy of these results across reading development, by monitoring eye movements in shared book reading, for…

Poor reading ability is associated with numerous negative consequences. School psychologists should provide teachers with resources and support to improve student reading ability and prevent these negative outcomes. This paper offers a guide for school psychologists to use in the consultation process when working with teachers to address students'…

In this article author introduced a structure of applied reading skills and suggested instructional strategies for development of initial strategies appropriate for learners in middle and upper levels of the elementary school. (Author/RK)

THE REACTIONS OF SEVENTH-GRADE STUDENTS FROM DIFFERENT SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUNDS TO THE SAME READINGS WERE STUDIED. THE READING REACTION ANALYSIS WAS GIVEN TO 73 SEVENTH-GRADE STUDENTS FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN ADVANTAGED AREAS AND TO 59 SEVENTH-GRADE STUDENTS FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN DISADVANTAGED AREAS OF CINCINNATI, OHIO. RESPONSES TO THIS TEST AND…

A study was conducted to identify operational procedures that could maximize learning and acceptance of reading materials within a parent education program. A factorial design was used to test how two levels of readability of written material (ninth and fifteenth grade levels) and two levels of reader competency (lower and higher) were related to…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the visual discrimination abilities of regular class children with varying levels of word recognition skill and of special class children. Word recognition and intelligence scores were obtained on 90 primary-aged children in regular classes and on seven children in a special class. The subjects were…

This paper discusses the role of the affective realm in the reading process. Its purposes are to provide some basic information about self-concept and to emphasize the prominent position which self-concept should occupy in teaching. The contents include a discussion of what self-concept is, of how self-concept is developed, and of the relationship…

This study investigated the effect of two classes of variables on a person's performance: the size of the window within which normal text was displayed and the type of information present in the display beyond the boundaries of the window. Six junior and senior high school students, identified as being among the best readers in their school, were…

This study was designed to explicate the nature of the processes utilized by students when learning from textual materials when the text has been augmented by interspersing questions at various points. Sixty undergraduate students were randomly assigned to one of six treatment groups. The experimental treatments were: (1) questions shortly before,…

Assesses the factors influencing the word pronunciation of seventh-grade adolescents who scored either above or below grade level on vocabulary skills. (Author/RB)

Analyzes the concept of literacy for the purpose of identifying the parameters that must be specified in literacy definitions, identifies related measurement problems, and describes literacy assessment procedures currently available. (RB)

The author refutes the conclusions of S. Finnegan's paper (see EJ 223 666) on the relationship between reading ability and auditory discrimination. (Author/PHR)

Examined relations among phonological awareness, music perception skills, and early reading skills in 100 preschoolers. Found that music skills correlated significantly with both phonological awareness and reading development. Music perception skills contributed unique variance in predicting reading ability, even when variance due to phonological…