Results of the Gates-Macginitie Reading Test for sixth graders are summarized. Tables include information for each subtest concerning mean scores, percentile ranks, grade equivalent scores, and standard scores. The level of achievement in this survey was lower than that of previous surveys. (MS)

Junior-high-school students need instruction in utilizing the various reading study skills as a means of better understanding content and of becoming more independent learners of subject matter. Teachers in the content areas, by using texts and subject-related materials, are in the best position to teach these skills. Although each subject has its…

Good and poor student readers and adults read texts in normal format and with 13 spaces between words. Wide spacing improved comprehension for poor readers but did not affect their reading efficiency, while it substantially impaired the efficiency of the other groups. Text difficulty did not interact significantly with spacing. (SJL)

Three experiments examined the relationship between reading skill and decoding. Children decoded and matched words and pseudowords of different syllable lengths presented in both aural and printed form. Prior verbal experience was manipulated. Decoding differences were not wholly attributable to prior experience with word units, as processes…

College students read passages and answered either verbatim or parphrased adjunct questions either inserted in the text or massed at the end of the passage. Passage review was varied. On the post-test containing unfamiliar paraphrased questions, students given inserted paraphrased adjunct questions outperformed the others. Paraphrased questions…

Good, normal, and poor third grade readers were required to read easy, moderate, and difficult one-syllable nouns under three conditions: control condition with no pictures, identifying-picture condition, and unrelated-picture condition. Reading performance of poor readers was influenced by pictures under all conditions. Individual differences…

Children read sets of words under three conditions: with no pictures, with related pictures, and with unrelated pictures. Results indicated that words were read more slowly whenever pictures were present; that unrelated pictures produced more interference than related pictures; and that both effects were inversely related to reading ability.…

The aims of this study are to discover what progress pupils can legitimately be expected to make in a speed reading program and to see whether this program can be applied most efficiently in English, the second language, or in Bahasa Malaysia, the national language. (Author/DB)

Suggests that inner speech is a manifestation of the need to prestructure oral utterances. Among the results, inner speech was found to be acquired by normally developing readers between the ages of 8 and 11, and children comprehended text better when certain prosodic features were made visible on the text. (Author/CB)

Accuracy-disabled and rate-disabled young Canadian readers were compared to children who were "fluent normal" readers. Children in the latter group decoded at the same level of accuracy as the rate-disabled subjects but at a significantly faster rate. Specific deficiencies of each of the disabled groups were identified. (Author/RH)

A recent study of reading rates of first grade students in Israel and America indicates that increased reading speed may improve comprehension and oral reading. Based on this finding, activities to help students read faster (and better) are suggested. (JL)

Investigated the comparative effects of a structured group counseling program versus a nondirective program on both emotional adjustment and reading achievement in elementary school students (N=24). Results supported the structured program for improvement of reading comprehension level as well as self-concept, trait-anxiety, and state-anxiety.…

Investigates the reading rate and comprehension of a total of 16 individuals who represented four superior reading groups: speed readers, professionals, college students, and people who scored exceptionally high on tests. (HOD)

Describes an experiment that explored the relationships between text structure, prior knowledge, and reader's purpose on the processing of text and memory for text information. Results demonstrated that the strategies used to read text are flexible. (HOD)

This final report discusses the outcomes of the third in a series of studies related to the speed with which captions appear on television programs. Video segments captioned at different speeds were shown to 1,102 subjects (aged 11-95) with and without hearing impairments, and the subjects then responded to test items based on the captions in the…