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Guthrie, John; And Others – 1984
A study was conducted to construct measures of reading competencies that are frequently needed in an occupational environment and to describe the influence of the components of reading practice on these competencies based on the conceptual framework of ethnographic psychology. The reading practices of 25 electrical engineers and 30 electronic…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Electronic Technicians, Engineers
Download full textFreeman, Ruth H. – 1982
A study was conducted to determine if interest in a basal reader story could be heightened and reading comprehension improved by (1) having the children predict the story content from the title prior to reading the story and (2) having them predict the outcome of the story at a salient midpoint. Subjects, 45 children in 2 fifth grade classes, were…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Grade 5, Instructional Improvement, Intermediate Grades
Watson, Mary – 1985
A total of 230 second through fifth grade boys and girls from five private schools in the San Francisco Bay area were asked to keep a record of the books they read for pleasure over the period of a month to determine whether there were differences between the books chosen across the grades and between sexes. The students recorded the books on a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Doltas, Dilek; Sevgen, Cevza – 1982
As part of the interdisciplinary Turko-Danish Fairytale Project, both an introspection and an essay study were conducted with Turkish university prep-school students and junior college students to determine their responses to three fairytales: "The Snake, the Fox, and the Man,""The Gold Apple," and "Per Smed's Whip."…
Descriptors: Essays, Fairy Tales, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries
DeGuise, Richard A. – 1978
Success in the study of literature depends on the student's ability to establish connections between word and object, between words and phrases, and between memorable experiences in all fields of learning and the reading of literature, which is interdisciplinary by nature. In understanding a literary work, a reader must make affective memory…
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Literature Appreciation, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement
Odland, Norine – 1977
Three questions guided the preparation of this paper: What are current practices in teaching literature in the elementary school? What research supports these practices? and What research should be conducted to increase knowledge and improve current practices? The first section, "Current Practices," describes the historical background of the…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Childrens Literature, Curriculum Guides, Educational History
Dickinson, Luren – 1978
This paper reviews research about how reading affects behavior. Chapter one gives a general introduction to reading effects and their implications for librarians, educators, and other professionals. The second chapter deals specifically with the 66 studies that have examined reading's influence on attitudes and emotions, analyzing these studies…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Individual Development
Peer reviewedWeintraub, Sam; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1977
This document summarizes 599 reports of reading research published between 1 July 1975 and 30 June 1976. The research studies are categorized in six major areas, four of which have been subcategorized. The majority of studies reported were classified in the area of the physiology and psychology of reading. Large subdivisions under that major…
Descriptors: Exceptional Persons, Literature Reviews, Physiology, Psychology
Bard, Therese Bissen – 1976
This paper considers many aspects of children's response to literature. Among the topics discussed are factors within the child (related to age, sex, and intelligence) that teachers and researchers agree may affect a child's enjoyment of literature; a research study on the relationship between story content and a child's psychological and…
Descriptors: Books, Child Development, Childrens Literature, Citations (References)
Thomas, James L., Ed.; Loring, Ruth M., Ed. – 1980
Designed for the practitioner concerned with motivating students to read, the 28 articles in this book are arranged in four sections. The articles in the first section, "Methodology," deal with how to motivate students to read. Among the topics covered in this section are the newspaper as a tool for teaching reading, comic books as motivators,…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Descriptions
KNUDSON, RICHARD L. – 1967
BOOK REPORT ASSIGNMENTS SHOULD BE PART OF A CAREFULLY PLANNED READING PROGRAM TO MOTIVATE STUDENT INTEREST IN LITERATURE. GOOD READING PROGRAMS CAN BE CREATED BY--(1) ASSESSING STUDENT NEEDS, INTERESTS, AND REGIONAL BACKGROUND, (2) APPRAISING THE INDIVIDUAL STUDENT'S READING ABILITY AND THE AMOUNT OF OUTSIDE READING REQUIRED IN OTHER COURSES, (3)…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Literature Appreciation
Byers, Joe L.; Evans, Thomas E. – 1980
A total of 29 teachers and 227 elementary school students participated in a study that examined teachers' judgments of their students' reading preferences as indicated by book selections. Children were asked to choose books they would like to read from a list of book descriptions. Teachers were then asked to predict their selections. Results…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Childhood Interests, Congruence (Psychology), Decision Making
Cohn, Marvin – 1979
This book is designed to teach parents the skills necessary to enable them to help their teenage children who are having study problems. The book covers a wide range of possible difficulties from basic reading problems to researching and writing a full-scale report. The book includes discussions of alibis students use to disguise poor study…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Motivation Techniques, Parent Participation, Reading Comprehension
Dougherty, Mildred S., Ed. – 1974
The studies reported in this document reflect the interests and concerns of reading and language arts teachers. Topics of the 10 studies were: a comparison of basal and individualized reading approaches to vocabulary acquisition of fourth graders, a comparison of a formal reading program and an informal general readiness program in kindergarten,…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Individualized Reading, Informal Reading Inventories, Language Arts
Redelheim, Paul S. – 1975
An instrument measuring the attitude of young children (kindergarten through grade two) toward reading was constructed, using photographs, ambiguous as to detail, with each representing a different reading situation. Subjects, 166 white middle-class children, were directed to view each picture and indicate whether they liked, disliked, or were…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Doctoral Dissertations, Measurement Instruments, Primary Education
