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Thompson, Mark E. – 1984
Research and descriptive studies of the active reader (one who starts reading early in life with a broad range of interests and continues this behavior) are of particular interest, because they identify salient characteristics and acquired traits of people who like to read. For example, the mature reader has been characterized as being able to…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Gifted
Maria, Katherine – 1985
Predicated on the assumption that many of the problems exhibited by learning disabled children arise from difficulties they have in processing information, the program of research described in this paper was undertaken to (1) identify reading comprehension difficulties that are due to disorders in the reader, and (2) design and test effective…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Processes
Mustapha, Zaliha – 1988
Reading is a multileveled, interactive, and hypothesis-generating process in which readers construct a meaningful representation of text by using their knowledge of the world and of language. Reviewing research on the reading process, it is clear that context, script (a form of general event representation derived from and applied to social…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Higher Education
Lyons, Carol A. – 1988
To compare the effect of remedial reading instruction over time on reading error patterns of at risk readers further classified as "learning disabled" (LD) with non-LD failing readers, a study examined 60 randomly selected children from a population of low achieving first graders in urban, suburban, and rural elementary schools…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Grade 1, High Risk Students
Tchaconas, Terry; Spiridakis, John N. – 1988
A study of patterns of cue selection strategies in relation to field dependence and independence in the reading of Greek-English bilingual children is reported. The study investigated (1) possible differences in the oral reading strategies used while reading English as compared to Greek, and (2) possible differences in those strategies for…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
Yukish, Joseph F.; Fraas, John W. – 1988
Evaluating the effectiveness of the Reading Recovery program pioneered in New Zealand by Marie Clay (daily supplemental lessons, for students with reading difficulties, which develop a strategy-oriented, self-improving reading system), a study examined the success of the program in an Old Order Amish population of first-grade students from Ohio.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cultural Background, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences
Webster, Raymond E.; And Others – 1987
To examine the role of phonetic code in memory, a study investigated the use of phonetic recoding strategies in fifth and sixth graders identified as good and poor readers. Subjects--120 students with IQ scores in the average range--were divided evenly between both grades. Thirty subjects from each grade who scored above the 50th percentile on the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Encoding (Psychology), Grade 5, Grade 6
Carnine, Douglas; Gersten, Russell – 1983
As a first step in developing a research program that united several individual strands of comprehension research, this paper describes studies that relate to the effectiveness of direct instruction. Various sections of the paper discuss the following topics: (1) variables in the direct instruction model, (2) teacher performance variables, (3)…
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Metacognition, Reader Response, Reading Comprehension
Boorstin, Daniel J. – 1984
This study explores the changing role of the book in the future. The report draws on interviews with authors, publishers, booksellers, computer experts, librarians, scientists, educators, and scholars and on the experience of the Library of Congress staff. The first part, "The Culture of the Book: Today and Tomorrow," includes sections…
Descriptors: Books, Futures (of Society), Libraries, Long Range Planning
Beebe, Mona J. – 1984
To assess the compatibility of miscue analysis and recall analysis as independent elements in a theory of reading comprehension, a study was performed that operationalized each theory and separated its components into measurable units to allow empirical testing. A cueing strategy model was estimated, but the discourse processing model was broken…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
Hayes, David A.; Alvermann, Donna E. – Forum for Reading, 1984
A cyclical plan for studying that takes into account information processing strategies and their effective management by students consists of (1) specifying study purposes, (2) previewing the materials, (3) proceeding through the task incrementally, and (4) connecting the content to be learned to other knowledge about the material studied. Setting…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Higher Education, Intentional Learning
Lyons, Carol A. – 1988
A study compared two groups of failing first grade readers in the Reading Recovery program to determine what effect this type of instruction had over time on their reading patterns. Subjects, 60 failing first grade readers, 30 learning disabled (LD) children and 30 non-LD children, were randomly selected from urban, suburban, and rural elementary…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cues, Grade 1, High Risk Students
Nachman, Leah B. – 1987
This practicum was designed to improve reading comprehension of intermediate grade children attending compensatory education classes in a Florida elementary school. It involved 11 students in grades 2 through 5 who were low achievers in reading and/or math. It was designed to improve reading comprehension by providing training using six specific…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades
Kirsch, Irwin; Guthrie, John – 1982
Psychometric and ethnographic frameworks were used to explore the relationships among adults' uses for reading and their demonstrated competencies with related domains of tasks. Information regarding frequently occurring reading tasks was gathered from 42 adults in both work and leisure settings by means of questionnaires, interviews, and…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Ethnography, Individual Needs
Petersen, Bruce T., Ed. – 1986
The relationship between reading and writing is explored in this book. Titles of the book's essays and their authors are as follows: (1) "What Is the Value of Connecting Reading and Writing?" by Robert J. Tierney and Margie Leys; (2) "Reflective Thought: The Connection between Reading and Writing" by June Cannell Birnbaum; (3)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Integrated Activities, Literature Appreciation
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