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Help For The Mobile Student, Linda Mixon Clary

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Teachers today know firsthand that sociologists are correct when they describe Modern American society as mobile. It is not at all unusual for many students - sometimes half a class - to enter classrooms while numerous others leave during the normal school year. This situation of course has always been true in areas that serve very transient groups such as military families, but it appears to now also apply to many other populations. Some up-to-date estimates predict that workers will change jobs eight or nine times in a lifetime and children are often involved in these moves. Consequently, today's teachers …

New Horizons: Faculty Recognition Dinner 1981, Western Michigan University

Faculty Recognition

New Horizons

Faculty Recognition Dinner 1981

Our Honored Guests:

• Marguerite Baechtold
• Harold O. Bahlke
• John L. Bendix
• Charles T. Brown
• Helen M. Brown
• William Buys
• James A. Davenport
• Lois Hamlin
• Clayton Holaday
• Helen Jennings
• Gordon O. Johnson
• Waldemar Klammer
• Daniel Kyser
• Cameron Lambe
• Alice E. Lewis
• Eleanor R. McKinney
• Leonard V. Meretta
• Arnold G. Nelson
• Nathan L. Nichols
• Stephen R. Nisbert
• Nancy Thomas
• William Weeks

Meeting Children's Reading Needs: Examining The Roles Of Special Teachers, William H. Rupley, Marty Abramson

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Those who teach remedial reading in the schools have numerous titles, dissimilar training, and overlapping responsibilities. Children who have mild to severe reading problems may be instructed by reading specialists, Title I teachers, teachers of the learning disabled, and so forth. Similarly, the reading teachers' training may range from participation in an undergraduate or graduate reading program to never having taken a formal course in reading. Though there may be an inherent assumption that all these individuals are equally capable of teaching reading, there are marked differences in training that could make this assumption untrue.

Reading Interests Among Fifth And Sixth Grade Children, Kathleen C. Stevens

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

This article reports the results of an interest survey given to children in four fifth and sixth grade classrooms. The author especially wished to determine if the sex differences in interest reported by so many writers (Norvell, 1958; McKay, 1968; Beta Upsilon Chapter, 1974) were still in effect today.

Editorial Comment, Ken Vandermeulen

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Letter from the editor.

Obstacles To Reading Acquisition: Preventative And Corrective Concerns, Carl Braun

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

In spite of the vast expenditure and research on the process of learning to read, there is little if any evidence that the incidence of reading disability is declining. Some, in fact, would argue that the contrary is true.

A Major Revision Of The Reading Model For Classroom Teachers, David Elijah, Alice Legenza

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Although many models of reading have evolved in the history of the field of reading, these models generally lack the simplicity necessary to be readily translated into methodology. Both pre-service and in-service teachers enrolled in reading courses profit from a model of reading, since models aid the understanding of theory, and thus are prerequisite for translating theory into classroom practice.

What Does Research Say About Beginning Reading?, Michael R. Sampson, L.D. Briggs

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Reading, mankind's way of conveying thoughts and ideas across time and distance, has long been treasured by a literate society. Reading has become so vital in the American society that often people who do not read face difficulties in social interactions and in securing employment. This has resulted in an all-out effort by parents and teachers to guide children into discovering the process of reading.

Why Do Kids Read?, Kathleen M. Ngandu

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

This study attempts to answer two questions. First, what do elementary students believe is the most important reason for their reading? The second question also examines children's reasons for reading, but from the teacher's perspective - what do elementary teachers believe is the most important reason for their students' reading?

Auditory Closure And Reading, Jean R. Harber

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

In contrast with visual perception, about which there is a larger body of knowledge, relatively little information exists concerning auditory perception and its relationship to reading. This fact is both surprising and troublesome as several researchers have found that auditory perceptual measures are better predictors of reading achievement than are visual perceptual measures (Blank, 1968; Linder & Fillmer, 1970; Muehl and Kremenak, 1966). It has been widely assumed that some basal level of auditory skill is related to normal language acquisition, school readiness, and academic achievement, particularly reading. Various auditory perceptual processes have been described, including the processes of discrimination, …

Reading And Risk Taking: The Teacher's Role, Arleen Michael

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Among the most puzzling students for the reading teacher are the children who say they can't learn to read or don't want to learn to read. Despite excellent objectives and activities which the skilled reading teacher has planned, these children seem determined to avoid the reading task, and to deny the teacher the opportunity to help them learn.

A Comparison Of Average Readers At Different Grade Levels, Frederick A. Duffelmeyer

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Many standardized reading tests yield separate scores for vocabulary and comprehension. Sometimes the vocabulary and comprehension scores for a given student are more or less (if not exactly) the same. In other cases, one is substantially higher than the other.

Reviews, Nancy Weddle

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

No abstract available.

Reading Horizons Vol. 21, No. 2

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 21, issue 2.