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Layton, James R. – 1978
The distinguishing characteristics and relationships found among the "Analytical Reading Inventory," the "Durrell Analysis of Reading Difficulty," and the Spache "Diagnostic Reading Scales" in terms of readability levels, oral and silent reading results, and independent and instructional reading levels were examined in a study involving 117 first,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Oral Reading, Readability
Amoroso, Henry Carmelo, Jr. – 1978
Students from Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies, participated in a study to determine their overall reading ability as measured by norm- and criterion-referenced reading tests and to discover the extent to which linguistically related reading difficulties were manifested in their oral and silent reading performance. The Gates-MacGinitie Reading…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Nonstandard Dialects
Download full textAllington, Richard L. – 1980
A review of the literature indicates that instructional differences exist between the instruction given to good and poor readers. A study was conducted to examine the amount of actual reading of connected text, orally or silently, assigned during classroom reading instruction. Twenty-four first and second grade teachers from four school districts…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, High Achievement, Independent Reading, Low Achievement
Aulls, Mark W. – 1979
This paper describes the Qualitative Analysis of Silent and Oral Reading Instrument (QASOR), which was developed to provide an alternative to the Reading Miscue Inventory for observing the oral and silent reading of students in the middle and secondary grades. An overview of QASOR shows that it is designed for use by reading specialists and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Evaluation Methods
Bartelo, Dennise M. – 1979
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a Maryland State Compensatory Reading Program at the middle school level. Specifically, the study attempted to determine the effects of silent reading practice on reading achievement and on student attitudes toward reading. Subjects were 74 sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools
Einhorn, Judith Ann – 1979
Eighty-one fifth grade students from a suburban parochial school were randomly assigned to one of two treatment groups in a study designed to determine the effect of daily sustained silent reading (SSR) on student reading habits and attitudes toward reading. One teacher supervised 40 students in daily fifteen-minute periods of SSR, using…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 5, Independent Reading, Masters Theses
Carswell, Margaret Dupree – 1979
Individual interviews and a series of ten tests were used to investigate the order in which children acquire reading concepts and demonstrate reading skills. Each of 44 first grade and 22 kindergarten students was tested and interviewed three times during the 1977-78 school year, and their responses were sorted and tabulated to determine whether…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Concept Formation, Letters (Alphabet), Primary Education
GRAHAM, ROBERT J. – 1968
MUCH OF LANGUAGE ARTS TEACHING IS BASED ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT WORDS ARE NATURAL UNITS OF LANGUAGE AND THAT PRINTED WORDS HAVE ONE-TO-ONE CORRESPONDENCES WITH WORDS IN SPEECH. THE OUTCOME OF THIS ASSUMPTION IS TO EMPHASIZE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHILD'S SIGHT VOCABULARY AND WORD PERCEPTION, ESPECIALLY IN RELATION TO THE TEACHING OF READING.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Graphemes, Intonation, Language Patterns
Maberry, David Ross – 1975
The purpose of this study was to compare the responses of students to three techniques of teaching literature: silent reading, solo performance, and readers theatre. Three hundred seventy-one students in three classes each in ninth and eleventh grades in three high schools in the north Texas area received three presentations of three short…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Doctoral Dissertations, English Instruction, Interpretive Reading
Reiter, Arlene – 1974
This study investigated the effect of black dialect upon the comprehension of standard reading material by using 50 third-grade students. A sentence repetition test was administered individually to each subject to select pupils for either the standard or the dialect group. Subjects were tested for oral comprehension and silent reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Black Dialects, Elementary Education, Grade 3
Karlin, Robert – 1971
Subject-area teachers are not expected to be reading experts, but they can help students overcome reading difficulties. Students often fail to meet the subject-matter demands due to lack of purpose in reading content, unfamiliarity with technical vocabulary, and the heavy concept load and idea density in the material. Teachers can use reading…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Developmental Reading, Reading Ability, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedHutchison, Laveria F. – Reading Improvement, 1978
Concludes that lessons emphasizing pereferred interests improve functionally illiterate adults' silent reading information recall skills and interpretation of word meanings from context. Suggests that greater attention be devoted to using preferred interest materials in adult reading instruction. (RL)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Illiteracy
Peer reviewedGreenewald, M. Jane – Foreign Language Annals, 1978
A Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) program provides a way to upgrade reading instruction by stressing self-selection, independent practice, and the use of reading as a communication tool. Guidelines are offered for setting up SSR programs, a resource library, and scheduling SSR periods. (Author/SW)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Instruction, Language Programs, Language Skills
Peer reviewedPorpodas, Costas D. – Educational Psychology, 1986
Investigates the role of phonological recoding in third graders' reading of Greek. Revealed a disturbing effect of articulatory suppression on subjects' reading latencies and text retention. Suggested that subjects' (1) reading of text was partly based on prelexical phonological representation and (2) text retention depended partly on a…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Greek, Inner Speech (Subvocal), Phonology
Peer reviewedJournal of Reading, 1987
Discusses (1) strategies that make learning disabled adolescents independent in subject area classrooms, (2) the use of medieval rhetoric to help modern students expand their writing, and (3) students' opinions of sustained silent reading. (NKA)
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Independent Study, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
