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Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Index to articles in volume 16.

Reading Horizons Vol. 16, No. 4

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Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 16, issue 4.

Ten-Second Reviews

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No abstract available.

Remediation Of Perceptual Difficulties, William S. O'Bruba

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Studies of eye movement during reading indicate faulty directional habits of children who display the following symptoms: repetition of words, omission of words, transposition of words, skipping lines of print, and jerky oral reading. The child's inability to follow a line of print from left to right can be caused chiefly by a lack of adequate experiential background. There may be little in the child's previous experiences to prepare him for this new, and for him, different situation. The child's concepts of up and down, left and right may have been inadequately developed. Incorrect responses may have been reinforced and …

Professional Concerns, R. Baird Shuman

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Most teachers of reading have realized the necessity of providing situations in which disabled readers can practice their reading skills without the embarrassment of letting other people know that they have deficiencies in these skills. One of the ultimate tasks of the teacher of reading is to provide situations in which students can work toward improving their skills while at the same time retaining their dignity and not jeopardizing their self-images.

Echoes From The Field, Ernie Adams

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No abstract available.

We Suggest, Eleanor Buelke

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Rollo May. 1975. "The Courage to Create."

Administrators Can Help Meet Reading Improvement Objectives, Roger H. Garvelink

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Total commitment to the improvement of the reading skills of our elementary and middle school students resulted from a performance objective initially set by our Board of Education. In some way all staff members were involved in the improvement of delivery systems and assessment programs.

Professional Concerns, R. Baird Shuman

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Professional Concerns is a column new to the pages of Reading Horizons. Its purpose is to promote dialogue and an exchange of ideas among those concerned with reading instruction at all levels. Comments about reading instruction are invited. Those who have questions which they would like to have answered by someone uniquely qualified to provide answers are urged to send their questions to the editor who will pass them on to an expert in the field for response.

Reading And The Bicentennial Celebration, Nicholas P. Criscuolo

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Real functional American citizenship should be appreciated and stressed more in our schools. Many children lack an understanding of the history and government of their city, state and nation. Our National Bicentennial Celebration is a very appropriate time to instill in these youngsters this knowledge in a fascinating manner. It is a time to motivate them to read the stirring accounts of our country's past. It is a time for awareness of the significant contributions of prominent leaders and their impact upon our present city, state and union.

Sustained Silent Reading (Ssr) As In Let Them Read, Ronald G. Noland

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Sustained Silent Reading is a concept developed and implemented by Hunt' (2) and McCracken (3) that has as a fundamental goal the development of proficient readers. Educators in their conscientious efforts to provide direct reading instruction are over-teaching. Because reading is a skill, practice is necessary in order to develop reading proficiency. Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) provides opportunity for the much-needed practice by allowing readers to sustain themselves without interruption in silent reading periods of half an hour or more.

Eric/Rcs Report: Retrieving Information From Eric, Rodney J. Barth

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The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a national information system currently consisting of sixteen clearinghouses under the sponsorship of the National Institute of Education (NIE). Each clearinghouse is responsible for obtaining the educational literature within its area for evaluation, indexing, and abstracting into the ERIC data bank, and also for providing information analysis materials and various user services based on the information contained in ERIC. Transcripts of speeches, topical papers, program descriptions, inservice and preservice workshop materials, curriculum guides, research reports, conference proceedings, and educational journal articles are among the documents indexed in the ERIC system. As one of …

Humanism In Teaching, Kenneth Vandermeulen

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A letter from the editor.

A New Study Habits Inventory: Description And Utilization, Mark E. Thompson

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Study habits inventories have successfully identified a proclivity for academic achievement not accounted for by ability. These inventories may be identifying a motivational trait that is difficult to chart by using traditional ability measures. The concept of motivation is quite difficult to pin down, and professional educators often turn to their particular notions of motivation when explaining success or failure. Motivation has been characterized as a conceptual charlady widely used for sweeping up variance in academic attainment unaccounted for by traditional intellectual or educational variables (Entwistle, et ai., 1974).

Meaningful Vs. Meaningless Utterances In Inventories And Their Effects On Pupil Performance, Jerome Axelrod

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In administering phonics inventories to his pupils, a teacher must be sure he is testing the pupils' knowledge of phonics ("sound sense") and not other or additional knowledge the pupils may possess. Administering this kind of extraneous-free test may be difficult in view of the great ranges of knowledge the students may bring to the testing situation. Therefore, it is the teacher's responsibility to employ in his phonics tests stimuli which he is relatively certain lie outside the ken of the respondents. It would seem, then, that using nonsense syllables (NSS: i.e. meaningless utterances) in phonics tests would be superior …

Some Semantics Of Basic Word Lists, Patrick Groff

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Lists of words compiled on the basis of their frequency of occurrence in writings of various kinds have long been considered "basic" materials for reading instruction. It is said teachers should use such lists because the child best learns to read if the order of the words presented to him for this purpose is governed by the relative frequency words occur in written materials. Put another way, it is argued that if word A occurs more often in written matter of different types than does word B it then should be presented for a child to learn to read before …

We Suggest, Eleanor Buelke

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John B. Carroll and Jeanne S. Chall (editors). 1975. "Toward a Literate Society."

Some Reasons For Oral Reading, R. Baird Shuman

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Few would question the appropriateness of oral reading in the first and second grades. Most experts feel that reading aloud is a worthwhile activity in the earliest years of school because the students have not yet developed sufficient speed in silent reading to make silent reading a valuable enterprise for them. Lewis and Sisko (1963) caution, however, that "from the time a child's silent reading rate overtakes his rate of oral reading, usually during the second or third grade, too much oral reading has the adverse effect of slowing down the rate of silent reading and encouraging unnecessary lip movement, …

Take A Reading Vacation--Go Drp (Directed Reading Plan), George Canney

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While vacationing may seem a remote thought from directing a reading program, effective implementation through daily lesson planning does require an analogous sequence of activities. Just as thoughtful preparation helps to make the trip successful, thoughtful planning for reading instruction can contribute toward more effective reading skill development with elementary level students.

Echoes From The Field, Ernie Adams

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Reading instructors have been using the language experience approach to teaching reading for a good many years. Philosophically, this approach to reading instruction like all others has been debated.

Reading In The Secondary School: Studying Spelling Successfully, Kenneth Vandermeulen

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Accurate spelling is obviously an important outcome of every student's elementary and high school education. It is true that some research indicates a very low correlation between spelling ability and reading or verbal background. However, it is also true that correct spelling in the world of business is emphasized, perhaps out of proportion to the rest of the graduate's educational attainments. We cannot deny that prospective employees are measured on the basis of some first impressions. His appearance, however superficial that may seem, his conversation, and his letter of application or sample of writing in his resume-these are still the …

Ten-Second Reviews

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No abstract available.

Reading Horizons Vol. 16, No. 3

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 16, issue 3.

Echoes From The Field, Ernie Adams

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Close observers of successful football coaches suggest that one phrase describes Woody Hayes, Darrell Royal, Bear Bryant, and John McKay. It is a simple phrase - "commitment to fundamentals." Their teams always seem to block with excellence, tackle with unmatched aggression and run like a scared ape trying to elude his mother-in-law.

Reading In The School: The Taming Of The Crew, Karen Jones

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No abstract available.

1776-1976: Looking Back, Kenneth Vandermeulen

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A letter from the editor.

Turning Kids On To Language, Robert D. Hughes

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One of the great problems we face as teachers is how to get kids interested in whatever it is that we want to teach them. Whether it is reading, writing, math, social studies, we know that the key to teaching success is motivation. "If we could just get them involved, we could teach them."

Reading Horizons Vol. 16, No. 2

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Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 16, issue 2.

Student Ratings Of Instruction: The Developmentalist Viewpoint, Lawrence J. Israel

Perspectives (1969-1979)

A recent review of studies concerning student ratings of instruction¹ indicates some probabilities that may be related to the intellectual and moral development of the college student. The studies indicate that the following apply:

1. Most rating forms measure the amount of rapport the instructor establishes.

2. The dimension of teaching skill is strongly influenced by teacher characteristics.

3. Teacher characteristics are more influential than course characteristics in skill ratings.

4. There is probably a weak positive correlation between instructor rank and student ratings.

5. The inconsistency of results in such studies may be the most singular element of …

Round Robin, Dorothy E. Smith

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Letters to the Editor