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Some Semantics Of Basic Word Lists, Patrick Groff

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

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 …

Ten-Second Reviews

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

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Reading Horizons Vol. 16, No. 3

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 16, issue 3.

Reading And The Bicentennial Celebration, Nicholas P. Criscuolo

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

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.

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

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

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 …

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

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

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.

Some Reasons For Oral Reading, R. Baird Shuman

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

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, …

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

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

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 …

Summary Of An Internship In The Battle Creek Public Schools, Lee A. Callaway

Masters Theses

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The Effects Of A Token Economy Upon Reduction Of Plaque Concentration On Teeth Of Elementary School Children, Lester Cohen

Masters Theses

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A Study Of The Acceptance Of The Community Education Philosophy By Superintendents In The State Of Michigan, Frank J. Manley Iii

Dissertations

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Behavioral Community Psychology: Encouraging The Community-Based Elderly To Participate In A Nutritious Meal Program, Theodore J. Bunck

Masters Theses

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A Comparison Of Two Treatment Procedures On Assertive Training In Female Adults, Sandra K. Beaty

Masters Theses

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The Effects Of Shock Intensity On Discriminative Punishment Of Consummatory Licking Behavior In Rats, Jose Gualberto Martins Angerami

Masters Theses

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The Effect Of An Interdependent Group Contingency Contract On Weight Loss In Women, Carol Daisley

Masters Theses

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Training School Personnel In The Theory And Application Of Behavior Modification Principles And Techniques: A Workshop Approach, Susan Wiles Meston

Masters Theses

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Comparative Evaluation Of Glucose Stimulated Insulin Secretion In Nondiabetic, Diabetic, And Prediabetic Chinese Hamsters, Ronald Neil Prange

Masters Theses

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Western News, March 11, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: College Information Meetings Continue, Tentative Plans Set for Charter, Western's First; First Lady Dies, Undergrad Scholarship Deadline Monday, Job Search Workshops Set, Senate President Resigns; Accepts Probate Judgeship, Brown; Forsleff Head Senate, Campus Gardening Association to Meet, University; AAUP Agree to Exempt Research Funds

Social Participation And Social Integration Of The Aged: Implications For Social Welfare, Ellen Fischgrund

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical review of the literature regarding the informal social participation patterns of the aged. The factors associated with degree of interaction with friends will be elaborated. For example, the relationship between morale and friendship patterns emerges as a predominant concern in the research literature. An effort will be made to examine the accumulated evidence in terms of implications for practice or further research. Finally, these findings regarding the informal social participation patterns of the aged will be analyzed within the framework of prevailing theoretical notions about social integration.

Philosophy, Sociology And The Theory Of Social Welfare: A Conceptual Starting Point, Robert D. Herman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

In this paper I want to explore and 2begin to elucidate a fundamental problem in social welfare theory. The problem centers on the conception of the relation between individuals and social structure. Before proceeding with this task, it is important to note the senses in which the term "social welfare" will be used. The term has two basic senses, deriving from two more or less distinct intellectual traditions. In one sense the term refers to the provision of goods and services to needy individuals, either through government "transfers" or private philanthropy. In this comparatively narrow sense social welfare is a …

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 3, No. 4 (March 1976)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Issue Editor: PRANAB CHATTERJEE, School of Applied Social Sciences, CASE-WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY

• Editorial, pp. 370
• Philosophy, Sociology and The Theory of Social Welfare: A Conceptual Starting Point - ROBERT D. HERMAN, pp. 371
• Evaluation Research: Some Possible Contexts of Theory Failure - PRANAB CHATTERJE, LENORE OLSEN, THOMAS P. HOLLAND, pp. 384
• Social Participation and Social Integration of The Aged: Implications for Social Welfare - ELLEN FISCHGHUND, pp. 409
• Public Housing for the Elderly - CARA J. ORBEN, pp. 421
• Block Clubs and Social Action: A Case Study In Community Conflict - MOHAN L. KAUL, pp. 437
• An Analysis of Political …

Evaluation Research: Some Possible Contexts Of Theory Failure, Pranab Chatterjee, Lenore Olsen, Thomas P. Holland

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

What can evaluation research tell us about social science theory? It is the purpose of this paper to examine that question. There has been much written in the current literature about the relationship between theory and practice. Because it is evaluation research (Breedlove, 1972: 71-89; Newbrough, 1966: 39-52; Suchman, 1971: 43-48; Suchman, 1967; Weiss, 1973: 37-45; Fitz- Gibbons and Morris, 1975: 1-4) that attempts to analyze the results of practice, it is the authors' belief that an examination of evaluation research studies for possible contexts of theory failure will contribute to a linkage between theory and practice.

Praxis In The Human Services As A Political Act, David G. Gil

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

My purpose in this paper is to develop a rationale for, and to suggest approaches to, the conscious integration of a political component into professional practice. Involved in this is a re-definition or re-conceptualization of professional roles in the human services as potentially powerful means of a radical, revolutionary political strategy. The overall aim of such a political strategy is to eliminate the systemic sources and dynamics of social, economic, and political inequalities - in my view, the major underlying causes of the entire array of social problems with which the human services profess to be concerned.

An Analysis Of Political Violence With Ramifications For Options Of Response, James Lubben

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The latter years of the Sixties brought a wave of political violence to this country that paled the face of America in startled fear and utter disbelief. Unrest on college campuses, racial conflict spiraling crime rates, and civil disobedience related to the Viet Nam War caused many Americans to identify this period as one of the most violent in U.S. History. Such a sense of public paranoia swept the country that on July 29, 1967 President Johnson issued Executive Order 11365 establishing a National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. The nation remained tense and June 1968 saw the creation of …

Western News, January 22, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Set Grad College Stipend Deadline, Name Coulter Idaho Prexy, General Campus Meeting Tuesday, Classical Guitarist To Perform Here, Announce 'River Niger' Cast, Curtis-Smith Composition Wins, Approve ASG Name Change; Veto Others, Appoint Title IX Coordinator, Announce Foreign Language Contest, Faculty Senate Elections Begin

Western News, January 15, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Trustees Meet Here Friday, Bernhard Letter to C/T Staff, Set 4th Secretarial Seminar, Sex; Sexuality Series Play Here Tonight, U.T. Reopens Coupon Sales, WIDR-Studio in Contest, Host International Low Vision Talks, Milliken Appoints Mann To Board, Reissue Closing Policy

Staging The York Creation, And Fall Of Lucifer, Clifford Davidson

English Faculty Publications

The Creation, and Fall of Lucifer by the York Realist was intended to provide a spectacular opening for the Corpus Christi cycle, of which the city of York felt very proud in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Since the York Realist appears to have been particularly sensitive to the conditions of production, this opening play provides a useful focus for attention to the staging used in the York cycle. The internal evidence of the Realist's Creation, and Fall of Lucifer demonstrates that he was not writing a mere literary exercise, but kept in mind the specifics of stage production.

The Editor's Page, George F. Estey

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Editor's Page for Vol. 8 Issue 2

Humanities In An Age Of Uncertainty, Norman Penlington

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The substance of this paper was given at the recent (Oct. 1976) conference of the Association of General and Liberal Studies held at the College of Basic Studies , Boston University.

In the few minutes at my disposal what can I, who am approaching the end of my formal teaching career, tell you who are just beginning or who are midway? Although I have spent a lifetime finding my way in this age of uncertainty I can relate some useful teaching experiences.

Updating The Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary, Jerry L. Johns

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Word lists for reading instruction have long been of interest to educators. It has been noted by Johnson and Barrett (16) that over 125 word lists have been constructed during the past seventy years. Of these many word lists, there is little doubt that the Dolch list has received widest publication and use. Authors of texbooks on the teaching of reading (1, 8, 18, 23) have made reference to the Dolch list with suggestions for teaching the words. In addition, many reading materials have been developed to help teach these words in isolation and in context. Books have been written …