Describes a stimulating one-day reading program in which 209 students divided into four groups according to their interests in a particular literary genre and spent an entire day reading a paperback in that category to each other. (RW)

Analyzes the oral reading performance of four Navajo children and notes that they believed the purpose of reading was to produce acceptable English grammar. (MKM)

Describes specific training, using taped readings, designed to prepare teachers to accurately assess the oral reading of students who exhibit dialect or second language influences in their speech. (MKM)

This article describes a functional approach to language intervention that uses storybook reading contexts with preschool children who exhibit delayed phonological development. Oral scaffolding techniques, including discussions of narrative structure and content words, provide the modeling and metalinguistic descriptions typically used in…

Examines the comparative use of grapho/phonic and syntactic/semantic cues for ongoing word recognition by readers in grades two, four, six, and eight reading both silently and orally. Finds a greater number of altered words were identified in the oral compared to the silent reading mode in grades four, six, and eight. (RS)

Describes and evaluates a program based on Paired Reading. Reports that the program increased parents' involvement, while boosting childrens' reading ability and attitude toward reading. (NH)

Describes a case study of an English teacher's attempts to change her teaching methods from mostly recitation to an emphasis on discussion, and the resulting changes in her classroom. (MS)

Presents findings from a longitudinal study of reading comprehension development that revealed a negative relationship between the amount of time kindergarten and first-grade teachers spend reading to their students' reading achievement. Results are discussed in terms of a "displacement theory." Students' reading achievement is related to their…

Sixth-grade students (n=22) with learning disabilities were administered a curriculum-based reading measurement over 18 weeks and attitudinal and self-perception measures as pretests and posttests. Students' self-perceptions of reading competence improved. Attitudes toward oral reading, while not improving, were positively related to fluency.…

Focuses on the issues of skills in reading instruction in New Zealand. Feels that instruction can maintain a reciprocal and mutually supportive relationship between teaching word-level strategies and comprehension strategies. (MG)

Compares literacy in colonial and contemporary America along dimensions of conceptions of literacy; practice of literacy; relationships among speaking, reading, and writing; and sites for learning literacy. Comparisons suggest directions for refiguring literacy today, including more emphasis on literacy as a collaborative practice. (SLD)

A study assessed the effect of two types of goal-setting graphing procedures used within curriculum-based measurement (CBM) to provide performance feedback to 18 second-grade students assigned to three experimental conditions: dynamic goal line, static goal line, and control. Students receiving feedback toward short-term or long-term goals…

This study examined literacy instruction in 14 first-grade classrooms of English learners (ELS) in three schools in a large urban school district in southern California over a two-year period. Pre- and posttest measures of oral-reading fluency for 186 first graders, representing 11 native languages, were the outcome data. Reading-fluency data were…

Generalizability (G) theory was used with a sample of 37 third-grade students to assess the variability in words correct per minute (WCPM) scores caused by student skill and passage variability. Reliability-like coefficients and the SEM based on a specific number of assessments using different combinations of passages demonstrated how manipulating…

Aphasia implies the loss or impairment of language caused by brain damage. The key to understanding the nature of aphasic symptoms is the neuro-anatomical site of brain damage, and not the causative agent. However, because "Herpes simplex" virus (HSV) encephalitis infection usually affects the frontal and temporal lobes, subcortical…