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Sanacore, Joseph – 1988
Independent reading can serve as a practical context for linking vocabulary and comprehension and is a feasible strategy that complements other instructional approaches while it expands word knowledge in a naturalistic setting. Teachers should serve as reading models while students engage in silent reading, but teachers should also be cautious…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Independent Reading, Models
Hall, Mary Jane; And Others – 1987
A study examined the relationship between sex differences and the development of reading proficiency, specifically investigating if sex differences related to achievement on measures of silent reading comprehension, sight vocabulary, recognition of vocabulary in context, and use of structural analysis in word recognition taken separately or in…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Diagnostic Tests, Grade 2, Learning Readiness
Download full textFrench, Michael P.; Rumschlag, Karen – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2004
The purpose of the present investigation was to sample the range of texts selected by 21 students in sustained silent reading in a single fourth-grade classroom. Using a sampling technique developed by French and Foster (1992), single pages from sampled texts were evaluated. The evaluation found that most students were reading fiction (n = 14),…
Descriptors: Sustained Silent Reading, Reading Material Selection, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
Hill, Charles H.; Methot, Kathleen – Elementary English, 1974
Beginning first grade readers were able to successfully transfer from a structured programed approach to an individualized approach to reading. (JH)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Conferences, Decoding (Reading), Grade 1
McCusker, Leo X.; And Others – 1977
Two experiments examined proofreading errors to test whether reading is mediated by a phonological recoding stage. In the first experiment, 162 undergraduates circled the misspelled words in a text as the experimenter read the passage aloud. In the second experiment, 165 undergraduates corrected misspellings as they read the same passage silently,…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Higher Education, Miscue Analysis, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Hardyck, Curtis D.; Petrinovich, Lewis F. – J Reading, 1969
Descriptors: College Students, Diagnostic Tests, Inner Speech (Subvocal), Reading Improvement
MacLean, Margaret – 1979
Based on similar psycholinguistic principles to those on which Reading Miscue Analysis is based, the Qualitative Analysis of Silent and Oral Reading (QASOR) is a proposed framework for the investigation of individual variations in oral and silent reading behaviors. QASOR provides a framework for examining how well readers construct and reconstruct…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Miscue Analysis
Ball, Diane A. – 1981
A junior high school reading program entitled Reading for Enjoyment and Development (READ) that combines the Reading is Fundamental (RIF) inexpensive book distribution program and the practice of entire school participation in uninterrupted sustained silent reading (USSR) is described in this paper. The development of the project and practical…
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Motivation Techniques, Program Descriptions, Program Development
KIRBY, CLARA L. – 1968
THE STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO DETERMINE WHETHER SCORES FROM A CLOZE TEST WOULD DIFFER SIGNIFICANTLY FROM SCORES ON SELECTED STANDARDIZED SILENT AND ORAL READING TESTS. PUPILS IN GRADES 1 THROUGH 6 IN AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN THE MIDWEST (N-178) SERVED AS SUBJECTS. THE MEAN INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT FOR THE TOTAL GROUP WAS 101.7. THE VARIABLES CONSIDERED…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education, Intelligence Differences
WILSON, RICHARD C. – 1968
THE IDENTIFICATION AND RECTIFICATION OF PERSONAL READING NEEDS THROUGH INDIVIDUALIZED READING PROCEDURES ARE DISCUSSED. THE SHIFT OF CORRECTIVE READING FROM GROUP TO INDIVIDUAL NEEDS IS URGED. REMEDIATION SHOULD BEGIN WITH TOPICS AGREEABLE AND ENJOYABLE TO THE LEARNER. THROUGH PUPIL CONFERENCES AND AN INFORMAL READING INVENTORY USING THIS TYPE OF…
Descriptors: Individualized Reading, Instructional Innovation, Oral Reading, Reading Comprehension
Coke, Esther U. – 1973
Prose passages read aloud or silently were rated for pronounceability and comprehensibility. The relationships of text-derived readability indices to reading rate, comprehensibility ratings and comprehension test scores were explored. Reading rate in syllables per minute was unrelated to readability. The high correlation between rate in words per…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Predictor Variables, Pronunciation, Readability
Rubin, Rosalyn; And Others – 1972
An extensive review of the literature on the relationship of speech articulation to reading and other language skills has revealed few studies in which relevant variables were clearly defined and carefully controlled. Results of past investigations fail to provide conclusive data due to the lack of consistency in defining disability groups, lack…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Delayed Speech, Language Acquisition, Oral Reading
Hermes, Liesel – Englisch, 1978
Discusses the use of extensive silent reading, its purpose, place in the course, methodology and choice of appropriate texts. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedSmith, Lyle R. – Journal of Social Studies Research, 1984
Secondary students who read an economics lesson silently scored significantly higher than students who received an oral presentation of the lesson. A significant interaction between lesson organization and student ability level indicated that highly organized economics lessons increase student learning under certain ability level conditions.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Organization, Classroom Communication, Course Organization
Peer reviewedKaisen, Jim – Reading Teacher, 1987
Advocates a supplementary reading program for kindergartners and first graders that is a combination of modified sustained silent reading and Booktime, after an investigatory study showed that, although highly thought of, SSR was difficult in practice in kindergarten and first-grade classrooms. (NKA)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Books, Grade 1, Instructional Materials
