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Peer reviewedHiggins, Eleanor L.; Raskind, Marshall H. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 1997
Thirty-seven college students with learning disabilities were given a reading comprehension task under the following conditions: (1) using an optical character recognition/speech synthesis system; (2) having the text read aloud by a human reader; or (3) reading silently without assistance. Findings indicated that the greater the disability, the…
Descriptors: Character Recognition, College Students, Computer Assisted Testing, Higher Education
Peer reviewedKoenig, A. J.; And Others – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1992
This paper used a case study approach to explore the value of an objective procedure to evaluate the relative effectiveness of reading large print and reading regular print with low vision devices for 6 students (ages 8-16) with low vision. Data were collected on oral and silent reading rates, working distance, and oral reading miscues. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Large Type Materials
Direct linkMethe, Scott A.; Hintze, John M. – School Psychology Review, 2003
The purpose of this research was to implement and evaluate a classroom strategy to increase student engagement in sustained silent reading (SSR), a form of school-based recreational reading. Teacher modeling was selected as the primary intervention. A within-subjects ABAB withdrawal design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Sustained Silent Reading, Recreational Reading, Grade 3
Streb, Judith A. – 1984
The reading exercises in this workbook cover the general areas of basic phonics; word structure (including compound words, base words, prefixes and suffixes, contractions, possessives, and syllables); vocabulary (including word recognition, rhyming words, and word meaning); study skills (including following directions, alphabetizing, and reading a…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Oral Reading, Phonics, Primary Education
Streb, Judith A. – 1984
The reading exercises in this workbook cover the general areas of basic phonics; word structure (including compound words, base words, prefixes and suffixes, contractions, possessives, and syllables); vocabulary (including word recognition, word meaning, and rhyming words); study skills (including following directions, alphabetizing, and reading a…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Oral Reading, Phonics
Streb, Judith A. – 1984
The reading exercises in this workbook cover the general areas of basic phonics; word structure (including compound words, prefixes, contractions, possessives, syllabication, word meaning, similes, vocabulary in content areas, analogies, and idioms); study skills (including dictionary skills, using an encyclopedia and index, reading a map, reading…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Learning Activities, Oral Reading, Phonics
Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1983
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 18 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the effect of illustrations on third grade students' attitudes toward the elderly; (2) visual and phonological coding in word processing by fourth, sixth, and…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Oral Reading
Crain-Thoreson, Catherine; McCutchen, Deborah – 1989
A study investigated the role of phonemic information in young readers' silent reading comprehension. Subjects, 56 children in grades 2 and 4, from Seattle parochial schools, were blocked into groups based on their grade and skill level (skilled and less skilled). Each subject saw 48 sentences presented in a random order on an Apple II…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 2
Chapman, L. John – 1986
To develop a new model of the reading process, a longitudinal study investigated the importance of the concepts of cohesion and register (fiction or nonfiction) in the assessment of text readability. Subjects, 436 8-year-olds (Cohort A), 474 10-year-olds (Cohort B), and 445 13-year-olds (Cohort C) from 23 urban and rural British schools--most of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cohesion (Written Composition), Elementary Secondary Education, Fiction
Anders, Patricia L., Ed. – 1981
Part of a continuing series intended for use by reading professionals interested in understanding and improving the reading of adolescents, this report contains five articles dealing with a variety of subjects. Specific topics discussed in the articles include (1) remedial readers' comprehension during silent and oral reading, (2) recall and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Ethnography, Listening Comprehension
Christensen, Linda, Ed.; And Others – 1982
Two model programs for integrating the language arts and specific lessons that integrate language arts activities for kindergarten through grade 12 are described in this booklet. The two programs are (1) the New Brunswick Comprehensive Reading/Language Arts Program, which has five critical experiences as the core of the program: sustained silent…
Descriptors: Creative Dramatics, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, English Curriculum
Peer reviewedJohnson, Dale D. – Journal of Educational Research, 1974
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Early Reading, Instructional Materials, Oral Reading
SHELDON, WILLIAM D.; AND OTHERS – 1967
A CONTINUATION OF A FIRST-GRADE STUDY OF THREE APPROACHES TO BEGINNING READING AND OF THEIR EFFECT ON GROWTH IN COMPREHENSION AND INTERPRETATION SKILL IS REPORTED. THE BASAL, THE MODIFIED LINGUISTIC, AND THE LINGUISTIC APPROACHES WERE STUDIED. TWENTY-ONE SECOND-GRADE CLASSROOMS IN THREE CENTRAL NEW YORK SCHOOL DISTRICTS PARTICIPATED IN THE…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Basic Reading, Grade 2, Interpretive Reading
DELLA-PIANA, GABRIEL; AND OTHERS – 1967
A SMALL SAMPLE PILOT PROJECT WHICH DEMONSTRATED A TREATMENT EFFECTIVENESS AND SUGGESTED FUTURE LINES FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF PARENT TRAINING PROGRAMS IS DESCRIBED. THE MAJOR HYPOTHESIS TESTED WAS THAT PUPILS WHOSE PARENTS WERE INVOLVED IN A TRAINING PROGRAM WOULD SHOW GREATER REGRESSED GAINS IN READING SKILLS THAN PUPILS WITH PARENTS NOT…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Oral Reading, Parent Education, Parent Participation
McCready, Michael Andrew – 1972
This study attempted to determine the extent to which phonemic-graphemic correspondence problems adversely affect reading comprehension among black children who are nonstandard speakers of English. An instrument requiring both silent and oral reading was devised by the investigator to test the effects of phonemic-graphemic correspondence problems…
Descriptors: Black Students, Elementary Education, Grade 5, Grade 6
