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BALOW, BRUCE; BLOMQUIST, MARLYS – 1965
THE PRESENT STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO OBTAIN AN OVERVIEW OF THE SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL STATUS OF YOUNG ADULTS WHO HAD BEEN DIAGNOSED AS SEVERLY DISABLED READERS IN THEIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL YEARS. OCCUPATIONAL POSITION, LEVEL OF EDUCATION, LEVEL OF READING SKILL, EDUCATIONAL STATUS, ATTITUDES TOWARD READING AND REMEDIAL HELP, AND MARITAL STATUS WERE…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Emotional Adjustment, Interviews, Longitudinal Studies
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Glazer, Neil T. – Reading Horizons, 1978
Describes a study on the relationship between reading deficiency and disciplinary problems; relates the original data to the same student population's status with regard to high school graduation four years later. (MAI)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Discipline Problems, Dropout Characteristics, Educational Diagnosis
Carbo, Marie – Phi Delta Kappan, 1987
Relates individual student experiences to illustrate that many poor readers are dropouts of programs requiring strongly analytic/auditory reading styles. Recommends adopting the "whole-language" approach for today's global learners. Uses research findings to outline instructional methods that match students' reading styles. (CJH)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Motivation, Phonics, Reading Failure
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Warren, John H. – Reading Horizons, 1988
Traces the literary treatment of causes and symptoms of reading disabilities through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Points out several concepts which are changing the earlier diagnostic-remedial role of classroom teachers. (ARH)
Descriptors: Educational History, Reading Consultants, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Difficulties
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Lund, Peter – Reading, 1973
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Cultural Background, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
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Samuels, S. Jay – Reading Research Quarterly, 1973
Critically analyzes explanations of reading difficulty and research methods used to investigate reading difficulty. (Author)
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Associative Learning, Conceptual Schemes, Literature Reviews
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Thorndike, Edward L. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1971
Reprints Thorndike's classic article which appeared in The Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. VIII, No. 6, June 1917, pp. 323-32. (VJ)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Learning Theories, Paragraphs, Reading Comprehension
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Iannelli, Jane – Reading Horizons, 1971
Descriptors: Early Experience, Guidelines, Language Acquisition, Parent Role
Lerner, Janet W. – Elementary English, 1971
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Educational Research, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities
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Fowler, Joseph W.; Peterson, Penelope L. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1981
Twenty-eight learned helpless children (ages 9-13) assessed as reading below grade level were randomly assigned to one of four reinforcement and attribution retaining treatments. Indirect and direct attribution retaining increased childrens' reading persistence and their attribution of failure on the Intellectual Achievement Responsibility scale…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Expectation, Helplessness, Intermediate Grades
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Henderson, Robyn W. – Australian Journal of Education, 2002
Examined ways early childhood teachers in three Australian schools rationalized children's literacy failure on Queensland's Year 2 Diagnostic Net. Found that teachers' narratives clustered into three groups: blaming families, blaming children, and moving beyond blame to focus on teaching; all teachers based pedagogical intervention decisions on a…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Teachers, Family Influence, Foreign Countries
Arnold, Renea; Colburn, Nell – School Library Journal, 2005
Many parents question what is normal and what their kids should be doing at different ages. More and more, parents are turning to their local libraries for advice. Besides being empathetic supporters and referring parents to the rich resources within our libraries that detail language-development milestones for young children, librarians need to…
Descriptors: Child Language, Reading Failure, Librarians, Language Acquisition
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D'angiulli, Amedeo; Siegel, Linda S.; Maggi, Stefania – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2004
Socioeconomic gradients and growth-mixture model trajectories of word-reading achievement were examined from kindergarten to Grade 5 in all the children who entered kindergarten within a school district and started receiving literacy-intensive instruction from that point on. In kindergarten, the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Kindergarten, Reading Failure, Literacy Education
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Mishra, Ramesh Kumar – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2006
A metalinguistic deficit in the awareness of phonological aspects of spoken language has long been assumed to be the single most important cause of reading failure among developmental dyslexics. Majority of this proposal's empirical support has come from examination of reading problems in irregular language like English and it's relation to the…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Speech Communication, Speech, Metalinguistics
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Fudge, Daniel L. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2006
The Predictive Reading Profile (PRP) is an individual or group-administered instrument designed to examine precursors to reading difficulties by identifying children at risk for reading failure in later grades and special instructional needs for children in late kindergarten and first grade. The purpose of the PRP "is to develop a profile of a…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Reading Difficulties, Reading Failure, Test Reviews
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