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HAYES, ROBERT B.; WUEST, RICHARD C. – 1967
FOR THE THIRD YEAR, THE FOLLOWING FOUR DIFFERENT METHODS OF TEACHING READING WERE CONTRASTED--(1) THE INITIAL TEACHING ALPHABET, (2) A PHONIC, FILMSTRIP, WHOLE-CLASS APPROACH, (3) A WHOLE-WORD, ECLECTIC BASAL READER METHOD, AND (4) THE PRECEDING APPROACH SUPPLEMENTED BY A PHONICS PROGRAM. SOME 400 FIRST-GRADE PUPILS WERE RANDOMLY ASSIGNED TO…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Grade 2, Grade 3, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Hoffman, J. V.; And Others – 1980
The Feedback to Oral Reading Miscue Analysis System (FORMAS) is a low-inference coding system developed to characterize verbal interaction between teacher and students during oral reading instruction. The six lessons presented in this manual are designed to teach the use of FORMAS in approximately ten hours. Each of the lessons deals with one of…
Descriptors: Classification, Classroom Communication, Data Analysis, Elementary Education
Terry, Pamela R.; Cohen, Darla A. – 1977
This study investigated the success rate and the type of teachers' responses to miscues during a six-month tutoring program. Teachers gave prompts, or cues, to help each child recognize unknown words, concentrating on behaviors hypothesized to encourage pupil success and independence in decoding. Previous research had shown that inservice teachers…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Cues, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education
Vinsonhaler, John F. – 1979
In a study of reading clinicians' collection and diagnosis procedures, three types of clinical agreement were examined: group agreement, intraclinician agreement, and interclinician agreement. Eight senior and respected practicing clinicians were involved in the study, which used simulated cases of reading problems based upon real cases. The…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Diagnosis, Oral Reading, Problem Solving
KENDER, JOSEPH P. – 1968
FACTORS PERTAINING TO INFORMAL READING TESTS WERE ANALYZED. SUBJECTS WERE 100 EIGHTH GRADERS IN A JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. THE MEDIAN NONVERBAL INTELLIGENCE TEST SCORE FOR THE GROUP WAS 116.37. THREE INFORMAL READING TESTS WERE ADMINISTERED -- THE INFORMAL READING INVENTORY, THE EXPERIMENTAL READING INVENTORY, AND THE BOTEL READING INVENTORY. THE…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Informal Reading Inventories, Inner Speech (Subvocal), Oral Reading
Early, Margaret J. – 1968
Understanding ideas, drawing inferences, and recognizing the author's organization and purpose are teachable comprehension skills. Prereading discussions can stimulate students to think before reading, to survey the material, and to raise questions which focus attention while reading. A study guide can develop comprehension through careful…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comprehension, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Intellectual Development
Schneyer, J. Wesley; Cowen, Sheila – 1968
A 2-year continuation of one of the 27 U. S. Office of Education First Grade Reading Studies is reported. Students in the linguistics approach were initially taught to read using the experimental edition of "A Basic Reading Series Developed upon Linguistic Principles" by Charles C. Fries and others. Students in the basal reader approach…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Linguistics
Sherman, Richard H. – 1978
The commonly-used instructional sequence in which children read material silently and then read it orally is simply not effective. The arguments presented by E.A. Betts in 1957 for silent before oral reading can be countered point by point. Studies that have compared various reading conditions have had serious limitations and have failed to show…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Literature Reviews, Oral Reading
Hays, Warren S. – 1975
This study was designed to discover the answers to two general questions concerning the instrucitonal level of reading: (1) What is the percentage of word recognition that is necessary for second and fifth graders to maintain in order to achieve a certain percentage of comprehension? (2) Are those word recognition percentages the same for both…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Elementary Education, Informal Reading Inventories, Oral Reading
Henry, Bertram Von Lossberg – 1974
The purpose of this study was to determine whether boys read to by their fathers for the six-month period immediately preceding entrance into first grade would score significantly higher on predictor instruments for first-grade reading achievement when compared with boys read to by their mothers or boys in an unplanned situation for the same…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Early Reading, Language Skills, Oral Reading
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Center for Applied Linguistics, Arlington, VA. – 1975
The purpose of this bulletin is to provide the American educator or sponsor with a set of reading passages in Khmer (the language spoken in Cambodia), so that he will have some means of determining whether or not his Cambodian students can read Khmer. Three short passages have been selected, each given in the Khmer alphabet and in its romanized…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Cambodian, Cambodians, Diagnostic Tests
Vorhaus, Renee Pool – 1976
Miscue responses of 20 first-grade pupils to 20 stimulus words were compared and analyzed for four different reading tasks: (1) in isolation, (2) in 10 free-standing sentences, (3) embedded in a complete story, and (4) embedded in an illustrated story. Analysis using the Reading Miscue Inventory indicated a significant gain in correct responses to…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Context Clues, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 1
Dunn, Lloyd M.; And Others – 1968
The Cooperative Reading Project's purpose was to examine the relative effectiveness of three approaches to the teaching of beginning reading and the effectiveness of oral stimulation. This monograph reports the results of the last year of the project. The experimental reading treatments were: (1) the Initial Teaching Alphabet (ITA), (2) the Words…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
Walker, Laurence – 1974
Following a review of the literature, a study to provide data on the interference effects of another dialect on aspects of reading performance was carried out in Newfoundland, Canada. Subjects were presented with oral reading material in standard English form and in a form which incorporated selected, validated, morphological features of grade…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English, Grade 3, Interference (Language)
Coger, Leslie Irene; White, Melvin R. – 1973
This handbook defines Readers Theatre, explores the selection and adaptation of material, and discusses casting, rehearsing, and performing of literature. It is divided into three major parts. Part One, "Origins, Concepts, and Precepts," emphasizes current trends in Readers Theatre and considers problems stemming from the introduction of…
Descriptors: Acting, Creative Dramatics, Higher Education, Instructional Materials
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