This booklet lists skills and activities that may be used by parents and teachers to insure the success of each child in reading. Designed for grades four through seven, the booklet suggests procedures for parental assistance, determining reading readiness and reading levels, developing basic reading skills, outlining a reading lesson for skills…

Age differences in recognition and recall of common nouns were studied using three groups of fifty students, with mean ages of 6.7, 11.4, and 16.9. Subjects were randomly placed in either an incidental or intentional learning condition. All subjects were questioned about the physical, phonemic, and semantic aspects of the same words, in the same…

CHILDREN IN FIVE SECOND-GRADE CLASSROOMS IN TWO CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE COLLEGE LABORATORY SCHOOLS PROVIDED THE POPULATION FOR A STUDY TO DETERMINE THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF THREE APPROACHES TO SPELLING INSTRUCTION IN PRODUCING SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES (WITHIN I.Q. GROUPS OF 111-140 AND 90-110) IN SPELLING ACHIEVEMENT AND IN ABILITY TO…

Illustrated instructions are provided for constructing 32 teaching aids. To be used with blind and visually limited children, the aids are designed to assist the child in exploration, discrimination, and recognition; spatial orientation and association of tactual symbology; likenesses and differences in tactual group symbols; word association and…

This workbook is intended as an aid to the teacher of a bilingual/bicultural Spanish-English program in the primary grades. It contains modified crossword puzzles in Spanish, designed to accompany the Spanish Curricula Development Center Southwest Edition readers, Units 1-3, Kits 2-9. The puzzles are intended to aid in reinforcing reading words…

This study is designed to help provide an understanding of the role semiosis plays in information processes. The object of study is the structure of various types of signs, and a determination of the relationship between sign structure and information properties. A review of the theory of sign structure is followed by an examination of syntactic…

Research was conducted to determine the degree to which sampling vs. comparison processes account for age changes in referential communication. Children at three different grade levels communicated referents within related and unrelated word pairs. The word pairs used were from Cohen and Klein (1968). From their list of 30 related pairs, half were…

The purpose of this study was to test some of the controversial issues raised by researchers studying the performances of children of middle class and low socioeconomic status (SES). In addition to studying the effects of SES and levels of intelligence on rote learning and more complex reasoning processes, the effects on reading achievement of…

Developed and coordinated by the Bureau of Reading Education of the New York State Education Department, Project Alert is a statewide inservice program to facilitate instituting or improving the diagnostic-prescriptive approach to reading instruction. As part of this program, a reading resource kit was prepared by the bureau to give structure and…

Automatic speech recognition is expected to be more successful when syntactically-related information is incorporated into early stages of recognition. Phonemic decisions, in particular, are expected to be more accurate and less ambiguous when contextual information is considered. A computer program detected about 90% of all boundaries between…

This instructional program, designed to diagnose and overcome deficiencies in prereading skills at the kindergarten and preschool levels, teaches five basic skills which directly relate to the reading process and to reading success: 1) attention to letter order; 2) attention to letter orientation; 3) attention to word detail; 4) sound matching;…

A series of articles with the chief emphasis on phonics as a means of analyzing words is presented. Various articles pertain to elementary, secondary, and college level instruction. The first of the five parts into which the volume is divided is comprised of a single article which gives an excellent overview of the field of word recognition. Part…

This specially developed Informal Reading Inventory for adults is an individually administered test to be used to measure reading performance from level one through level six. The test is designed to indicate the instructional readability level for teaching purposes. The level derived will correspond closely with a comparable level in a graded…

Utilizing a "shotgun" instructional approach with feedback, a linear instructional program, and an IBM 1500 computer system, this study investigated the effects of pictorial representations of words on the acquisition of a sight vocabulary by rural emotionally and mentally retarded (EMR) students. Twenty-seven students were involved in the study.…

Certain aspects of the performance of adults on verbal reasoning tasks were studied. The four main objectives of the study were: to develop a self-instructional booklet for use in teaching adults the functional rules of classification; to construct a reliable instrument for use in assessing the capability of adults to perform verbal classification…