Starting with the second semester of the 1971-72 school year, the Phoenix Union High School System accepted a performance contract with Educators Service Incorporated of Edina, Minnesota. The contract enabled the district to implement a one-semester program, which was a multimedia course consisting of 36 thirty-minute videotaped sessions which…

This booklet is a revision of an earlier annotated bibliography, "Speed Reading," compiled by Allen Berger in 1967 and revised in 1970. The 82 entries are arranged alphabetically by author in the following ten categories: tachistoscope and controlled pacing, paperback scanning, flexible rates of comprehension, retention of gains, perception,…

An investigation was made of the performance of a sample of British sixth-form pupils on a task requiring them to obtain information from a book. Their performance was correlated with scores on tests of reading comprehension, reading speed in conjunction with recall and comprehension, and intelligence. (Author/RM)

Conventional paragraph structure requires that the topic sentence be presented first, followed by connected, coherent sentences. The processing role of these rules was investigated by comparing performance on reading simple passages that conformed to or violated conventional paragraph organization. (Author/SW)

Offers several strategies for increasing reading rate without descreasing comprehension. (FL)

The seventh edition of this book, like previous editions, is designed to give busy reading specialists, teachers, and students in reading education specific, concrete methods for locating and correcting reading difficulties. The book stresses the importance of direct instruction, motivational learning activities, and abundant practice in the act…

Considered the problems in helping students develop reading skills with the accent on teacher responsibility and leadership. (RK)

Four components of reading speed were identified, and a measure of the first component, reading speed of known vocabulary, was investigated on a mixed sample of 84 boys (6 to 14 years old), which included a high proportion of retarded readers. (Author/GW)

Examines three studies related to the reading achievement of hearing-impaired students. (VJ)

Reports ...an investigation to determine the incidence of vocalism during silent reading by two groups of intermediate grade children: reading achievers and reading retardates. A general conclusion is that vocalism is a natural adjunct of the reading process and that at appropriate times all of us use it as a secondary sensory reinforcement."…