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Neufeld, Karen; Lindsley, Ogden R. – 1978
The Standard Celeration Chart and its related research principles were used in a study to determine the reading level on the informal reading inventory that promotes highest speed or accuracy of learning. For ten school days, 49 fifth graders read and charted their progress at four levels: instructional level, one grade below, and two and six…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 5, Informal Reading Inventories, Learning Processes
PDF pending restorationYARINGTON, DAVID JON – 1967
THE AMOUNT AND KIND OF READING DONE BY COLLEGE FRESHMEN AND THE NUMBER OF HOURS DEVOTED TO IT DURING AN ACADEMIC YEAR WERE RELATED TO APTITUDE AS MEASURED BY THE AMERICAN COLLEGE TESTING PROGRAM BATTERY (ACT) AND GRADE POINT AVERAGE. TIME CHART FORMS WERE USED TO COLLECT THE DATA. CHARTS WERE KEPT BY OHIO UNIVERSITY FRESHMEN MEN FOR 28 WEEKS. THE…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, College Freshmen, Grade Point Average
COATES, ROBERT H., ED. – 1967
THE TEACHER'S GUIDE PROVIDES SUGGESTIONS FOR INTRODUCING EACH OF THE 100 LESSONS IN OPERATION ALPHABET 1, A WORKBOOK TO HELP ADULTS LEARN TO READ AND WRITE. IT LISTS MATERIALS NEEDED, AND OUTLINES THE PRESENTATION AND WRITING PRACTICE. AN INTRODUCTORY SECTION COVERS ABILITY GROUPING WITHIN A CLASS, READING RATES, AND GUIDEPOSTS TO GOOD TEACHING OF…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Adult Basic Education, Beginning Reading, Instructional Materials
Download full textMAXWELL, MARTHA J.; MUELLER, ARTHUR C. – 1965
A STUDY OF THE READING HABITS AND ABILITIES OF 132 PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE (1) IF READING SPEED COULD BE INCREASED WITHOUT CHANGE IN COMPREHENSION AND (2) WHETHER INFORMATION ABOUT SOME OF THE BASIC TECHNIQUES OF READING STRESSED IN TYPICAL READING COURSES COULD ELICIT CHANGES IN STANDARDIZED…
Descriptors: College Students, Questionnaires, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension
LEVIN, HARRY; TURNER, ELIZABETH ANN – 1966
THIS STUDY INVESTIGATED THE EFFECTS OF THE GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE OF READING MATERIALS ON THE EYE-VOICE SPAN (EVS). THE EYE-VOICE SPAN IS THE DISTANCE THE EYE IS AHEAD OF THE VOICE IN READING ALOUD. THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE STUDY WAS THAT THE EYE-VOICE SPAN IS NOT A CONSTANT OR FIXED LENGTH REGARDLESS OF THE MATERIAL BEING READ, BUT THAT, AMONG OTHER…
Descriptors: Eye Voice Span, Oral Reading, Participant Characteristics, Reading Development
Hanson, Earl – 1981
This paper reviews some of the physiological characteristics of the reading act, including the structure of the eye and the limits and focusing area of eye fixations. It then outlines a four-part method for increasing reading rates of reading both easy and study-type materials, a method that can be used over 20 one-hour sessions with students who…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Eye Fixations, Eyes, Physiology
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Two comprehension-time experiments were conducted to identify factors affecting the comprehensibility of written materials. The subjects (a total of 52 college students for the two experiments) were presented with pairs of sentences--"context" sentences followed by "target" sentences--and were asked to relate the content of the target sentences to…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Connected Discourse, Context Clues
WOLFF, HELEN D.; AND OTHERS – 1967
A LANGUAGE ARTS CURRICULUM GUIDE WAS DEVELOPED BY THE READING SCHOOL STAFF FOR THE MODEL DEVELOPMENTAL READING SCHOOL, A TITLE III ESEA PROJECT, SPONSORED BY THE PIEDMONT ASSOCIATION FOR SCHOOL STUDIES AND SERVICES, GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA. SINCE READING SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN THE COURSE OF DEVELOPING A WELL-ROUNDED LANGUAGE ARTS PROGRAM, THIS…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Developmental Reading, Language Arts, Nongraded Instructional Grouping
Martin, Clessen J. – 1974
It has been assumed that written and spoken language contains many words and word sequences which are unnecessary for the comprehension of a message. The purpose of this research was the development and evaluation of three major telegraphic production schemes. Telegraphic prose refers to an abbreviated writing style similar to that found in…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Research, Experiments
Anderson, Presco – 1974
The eight booklets included in this packet emphasize the practical techniques which can aid high school students in improving their reading skills through the use of the newspaper. Each guide contains at least one sample news article, followed by activities designed to improve a specific reading skill. Titles of the individual guides are…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Newspapers, Reading Comprehension, Reading Habits
Harris, Albert J. – 1968
An overall survey is made of the relationship between reading comprehension and rate, flexibility, and study skills as shown by research studies, and the following conclusions are drawn. (1) There are mostly positive correlations between rate and comprehension, but the amount depends on the test groups, reading materials, measuring instruments,…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Factual Reading, Reading Comprehension, Reading Habits
Rankin, Earl F.; Hess, Allen K. – 1969
The effects of training on internal reading flexibility (intra-article flexibility) and the relationships between such flexibility and overall reading speed, reading comprehension, anxiety level, and introversion-extraversion were investigated. Flexibility coefficients were computed before and after training for the total group of 255 college…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Students, Readability, Reading Ability
Hood, Joyce; Kendall, Janet Ross – 1974
Subjects within one reading level only were included in this study to determine reflective and impulsive subject groups on the basis of Matching Familiar Figures (MFF) test time and error scores within that reading level rather than over all levels, to use the same reading test passages for all subjects, and then to apply statistical tests of…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Miscue Analysis, Oral Reading, Reading
Smith, Frank – 1971
Two sources of information are involved in reading; the visual information picked up by the eyes from the printed page and the nonvisual information, or prior knowledge, that the reader possesses. An overreliance on visual information leads to an overloading of the cognitive process involved in reading and loss in comprehension. Overreliance on…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Cognitive Processes, Decoding (Reading), Reading
Brickner, Ann; Senter, Donald R. – 1969
The reading rates achieved by first graders taught reading by the Listen Look Learn (LLL) materials and procedures were compared to available norms of children who have had no instrument use as a part of their reading instruction. In the LLL program the Aud-X, Tach-X, and Controlled Reader Instruments were used to increase sight vocabulary,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Eye Movements, Grade 1, Multimedia Instruction
