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Journal Of Teaching And Learning: In This Issue, Vito Perrone

Journal of Teaching and Learning

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The Effect Of Sociocontextual Variables On Child Achievement, Nicholas F. Rayder, Allan I. Abrams, John C. Larson

Journal of Teaching and Learning

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Resistance To Curricular Change, Gerald P. Flynn

Journal of Teaching and Learning

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The Effectiveness Of Peer Ratings At The University Level, Jerry Bergman

Journal of Teaching and Learning

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Resistance To Curricular Change, Gerald P. Flynn

Journal of Teaching and Learning

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Learning: A Momentary Stay Against Confusion, Abigail Lipson

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

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Place And Nature Of History As A Scientific Study, Nick Van Til

Pro Rege

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Proportional Representation For All: Political Justice Through Pluralism, Sandra Langley

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Editorial, John B. Hulst

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Scheduling For A Differentiated Reading Program, Anne Polselli Sweet, Robert Lynn Canady

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

A renewed impetus toward the improvement of reading instruction has been provided in great measure by the nationwide thrust toward educational accountability. Educators have been prompted to seek diverse means for improving reading instruction because of the realization that large numbers of average to high IQ children exhibit a discrepancy between capacity and performance scores. Supplementary instructional programs have been instituted; teacher in-service programs have been provided; paraprofessionals have been employed; teaching methodologies have been varied; learning centers have been constructed; management systems have been implemented; and new textbooks have been adopted. Altering the delivery of instruction, however, has been …

To Teach A Social Studies Concept--Chunk It!, Esther P. Valentine, Olive R. Francks

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

"I don't know why they couldn't answer the questions. We covered the subject in our social studies class. Besides, all the answers are in the textbook!"

Has such a thought ever passed through your mind as you looked with dismay at your class' test results? Unfortunately, this kind of reaction is common to the social studies teacher in our nation's classrooms. Difficulties in learning to read in content area subjects tend to baffle the teacher and present obstacles to the learner. All this can be overcome by a strategy which is based on knowledge of how a student learns to …

Eric Hoffer And The Significance Of Reading, Mark E. Thompson

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Eric Hoffer is a most unusual person. He was born in 1902 in New York City and taught himself to read English and German at the age of five. When he was seven years old, he suddenly and inexplicably went blind (Tomkins, 1968). At the age of 15, he mysteriously recovered his sight and became a voracious reader. Hoffer had no mentor or formal education during his youth or in his adult years, but he had books to read from the public libraries of California. After the death of his father in 1920 (his mother died when he was seven), …

Book Review, Elanor Buelke, Greta Ray

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Bettlelheim, Bruno Surviving New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. Pp. xi + 432.

Reading Horizons Vol. 20, No. 1

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 20, issue 1.

Enriching The Beginning Reading Program: Natural Language Technique, Janet Ross Kendall

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

A friend's first-grade son came running home the other day to show his mother the story he'd "written" and could "read." The story was one he had told the teacher's aide in his classroom; the aide had written it down for him and had read it with him several times until the child knew it by heart. This technique, termed "language experience" or "chart stories," is an extremely good one for promoting positive attitudes toward reading in children and for providing useful experiences with reading.

"A Message From Our Sponsor", Kenneth Vandermeulen

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Letter from the editor.

Are Perceptual Skills Necessary For Success In Reading? Which Ones?, Jean R. Harber

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Numerous reading and reading readiness programs have been made available to teachers over the years, constructed on the assumption that certain auditory and visual perceptual skills are prerequisites to successful achievement in academics, particularly reading. Many educators have suggested that children who have been labeled learning or reading disabled demonstrate deficits at the perceptual level. In fact, many of those who have been instrumental in the field of learning disabilities have suggested that all learning disabled children have perceptual processing problems and that these perceptual problems are at the root of their learning disabilities (Barsch 1965; Cruickshank, 1977; Frostig, 1970; …

Reading Requirements And Basic Secondary Teacher Certification: An Update, Keith J. Thomas, Michele Simpson

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Being involved with pre-service training of content teachers in a state which requires by law courses in reading method, we raised the following question: Since only two such studies appear in the widely circulated professional literature, were the findings reported by Bader truly representative of a positive trend toward a commitment to reading, or had the earlier comments of Estes and Piercey proven to be more prophetic?

Psycholinguistics: Teaching Strategies For Comprehension, Gail M. Huffman, Nancy M. Weddle

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Children typically come to the reading task with a foundation for learning to read. They have attained a substantial amount of oral language and they have accumulated a storehouse of personal background experience. As with oral language, the child needs to understand that what he reads must make sense. Goodman (1973) reminded us, "A reader, then, is a user of language who constantly seeks sense from what he reads. "

Beyond Bibliotherapy: Tell-A-Therapy, William S. O'Bruba, Donald A. Camplese

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Schools, perhaps are in the best position to work with bibliotherapy in a preventive approach against mental illness. In America, schools are founded on the principle that reading experience would affect not only a child's attitude, but also his behavior. The first book published in America, the New England primer, contained both religious and secular material, and who would deny the far reaching influence of the McGuffey Reader on the mind of America. Although there is little tangible evidence supporting the claim that reading does influence and change one's behavior, those involved in fostering the learning of others must continue …

Sentence Building In Reading And Composition, Thomas P. Fitzgerald, Ellen F. Fitzgerald

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The primary objective of this article is to describe an instructional technique called sentence building as a means of developing the ability to read more complex sentences with understanding and to write more complex sentences. The process may be viewed as a preliminary step to reading and writing paragraphs. A secondary objective is to develop an awareness that instruction in reading and composition should be based on oral language skills and may be taught concomitantly.

The School Library--The Alpha And Omega Of Your Elementary School Reading Program, Lea-Ruth C. Wilkens

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

No child in your school is ever too young to be introduced to the magic place called the library. Kindergartners in particular need to be surrounded with books, books and more books if we expect them to develop voracious appetites for the printed word. All children need to be saturated daily with stories which will stimulate their imagination and keep their curiosities amply nourished. For instance, an appreciation and sense oflanguage and word power can be cultivated very satisfactorily through the use of Mother Goose rhymes. The musical quality of these rhymes has rarely ever failed to tickle children's ears. …

Remembering Is Not Necessarily Understanding In Content Areas, Richard L. Allington, Michael Strange

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Improving comprehension in middle-grade content areas would be an easier topic to address if we had available validated theoretical models, and hence an understanding, of 1) how one learns from text, and 2) how intellectual operations develop in adolescence. Our current state of ignorance in these areas has been aptly summarized by Miller (1976) and Neimark (1975) respectively. We are then, like everyone else who would discuss improving comprehension of text, reduced to drawing upon the available body of literature and from this attempting to produce a framework from which useful strategies can be developed.

Changing Forces In Staff Development: Implications For Reading, Joanne L. Vacca

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

This writer (in press) interviewed six recognized reading experts in order to synthesize a general aim or purpose of staff development in reading.

Profssional Concerns, R Baird Shuman, Patricia M. Cunningham

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Professional Concerns is a regular column devoted to the interchange of ideas among those interested in reading instruction. Send your comments and contributions to the editor. If you have questions about reading that you wish to have answered, the editor will find respondents to answer them. Address correspondence to R. Baird Shuman, Department of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, 61801.

Table Of Contents And Editorial Information For Vol. 7, No. 1, Fall 1979, Charles E. Litz, Mary Kahl Sparks

Educational Considerations

Table of contents and editorial information for Vol. 7, no. 1, Fall 1979

Forward To The Basics, Carl S. Johnson

Educational Considerations

Educators must strive to see that basic changes in education do not make our students regress but rather progress.

Education May Be In Deep Trouble In Drug Education Workshops Without Students, Kent A. Laudeman

Educational Considerations

Students' help is needed in both planning and conducting workshops if the program is to provide meaningful training for the participants who will be working with students.

Curriculum For The Middle School, Thomas J. Buttery

Educational Considerations

A book review of A Curriculum for the Middle School Years, by John H. Lounsbury and Gordon E. Vars.

Another Chapter In The Textbook Controversy, James C. Carper

Educational Considerations

A book review of Textbooks on Trial, by James C. Hefley