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Reading--Do We Need To Know What It Is Before We Try To Teach It?, Dorothy Garman

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

If, for a brief moment, we could look into a child's mind while he or she were reading, would we find the child's approach to reading compatible with the teacher's approach to teaching? The answer would probably depend upon how the teacher views the reading process. If the teacher believes that reading is a process of identifying individual letters or individual words, then the teacher will probably not be inclined to teach in the way that the child is inclined to read.

Beginning Reading Without Readiness: Structured Language Experience, Patricia Cunningham

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The language experience approach has for generations been one of the tricks in the bags of versatile reading teachers. Allen (1964) emphasizes the link between speaking. writing and reading inherent in the language experience approach. Hall (1972) supplies seven statements supporting the linguistic soundness of the language experience approach.

Cloze Encounters Of A Different Kind, Robert F. Carey

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The cloze test usually consists of a graded reading passage from which words have been deleted according to some methodical strategy. such as every fifth word. every tenth word. every pronoun. etc. The deleted words are replaced with blanks of a uniform size. and the student is asked to fill in the blanks with the most appropriate word.

Reading Assessment--The Third Dimension, Jerry L. Johns

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Assessing a student's progress in reading should be an integral part of every reading program. Most teachers use standardized or informal tests for the diagnosis and evaluation of reading achievement; however, a third means of assessment is available to teachers. This article is intended to help educators legitimatize this often ignored method of assessing reading behavior and evaluating reading performance.

Professional Concerns, R Baird Shuman, Willliam S. Palmer

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

William S. Palmer is Professor of Reading and Language Arts at the University of NC?rth Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is well known for his contributions to professional journals in the field of reading and English education. He is author of Teaching Reading to High School Students.

In his contribution to this column, Professor Palmer points out some of the oversimplication which results from basing reading programs upon the taxonomic model. He carefully explores the stages of beginning reading, and he sets these in a useful historical perspective. In doing so, he avoids the Aristotelian either/or dichotomy in his …

Word Analogies: An Overlooked Reading Aid, Jerry Axelrod

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Few cues give a teacher a more valid or quicker insight into her students' thinking abilities than word analogies. The pupils' mental manipulations· or lack thereof reveal to the aware and perceptive teacher a usually accurate idea of the extent to which her pupils will be able to perform. Picture analogies for nonreaders and word analogies for literate pupils can be used informally by the classroom teachers to approximate just how much pupils, individually, are capable of learning in an academic situation.

Remedial College Freshmen English Students: Description And Characteristics, Mark E. Thompson, Bonnie C. Plummer

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

This report is an analysis of the characteristics found among students in remedial, freshman English classes at a large, mid-south, regional university. At the end of the 1977 Spring Semester, 187 students from 13 remedial, freshman English classes were analyzed in terms of ability, motivation to attend classes and career choice (declared or undeclared majors). These variables were analyzed and compared to achievement levels (grades).

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Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

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Science Fiction: The Future In The Classroom, Joan B. Grady

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Science fiction is a literary genre that has gained more respectability in the past few years than it had experienced previously. One can remember trying to find examples of this genre to read. Jules Verne and H. G. Wells could be found if one were educated enough in the genre to seek out these authors. When pressed, a librarian might try to foist Plato's Republic or More's Utopia off on the neophyte science fiction seeker. For the most part, those interested in this genre had to seek outside the confines of the public library to find examples of science fiction …

Peer-Tutoring: Learning Boon Or Exploitation Of The Tutor?, Helen Howell

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The concept of peer tutoring is not new. Its use has been traced back through centuries. Probably all elementary school teachers have used it at some time-usually in the brief, informal situation of having Billy help Jimmy with some specific problem or skill need. In recent years, the idea has expanded and the more formal peer-tutoring or peer-mediated instruction concept has received attention and support. This increased interest in peer-tutoring appears to have been prompted by the need to individualize instruction and to do so as economically as possible.

A Descriptive Analysis Of The Characteristics And Achievements Of Black Upward Bound And Black Non Upward Bound Students At Western Michigan University From 1971-1976, Luther Roseman Dease

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A Comparative Analysis Of Two Methods Of Teaching: The Cecchetti Method Of Classical Ballet And The Royal Academy Of Dance, Barbara Ann Ruemenapp

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Establishing An Employee Assistance Program At Checker Motors Corporation, Eileen E. Rogers

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Autocorrelation In Behavior Modification Data, Suzanne M. Girman

Masters Theses

Many methodologists claim that autocorrelation in intra-subject designs is a pervasive and critical problem necessitating complex statistical analyses to determine the existence of an intervention effect. In this study, autocorrelation, coefficients were found for a large sample of graphed data in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. Results indicate that there is minimal, negative autocorrelation for most of the data analyzed (-.04). This result suggests the presence of autocorrelation in the intra-subject designs analyzed is of no practical significance, and thus is not the problem some methodologists have assumed it to be.

Increasing Audience Participation In Seminars, Linda J. Parrott

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What Administrators Actually Know About Reading Programs, Martha Rapp Haggard, Jane Warren Meeks

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The purpose of this survey was to determine the extent and depth of public school administrators' attitudes, knowledge and concepts about reading programs. Surveys were sent to 100 public school administrators in a mid-western metropolitan area. The results were tabulated from fifty-nine respondents; six superintendents, twenty-one secondary principals, and thirty-two elementary principals. No special supervisors (language arts curriculum, personnel. etc.) were included in the study.

Effectiveness Procedures For Teaching Reference Study Skills, Donald C. Cushenbery

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

In many elementary developmental reading programs, the areas of word attack and comprehension traditionally receive major attention with respect to reading skills instruction. In some other cases there is much emphasis with respect to phonics and other forms of decoding with less priority given to comprehension. Typically, the skill area receiving the least amount of importance is that of reference study skills since it is assumed by some teachers that if a student is efficient in word attack and comprehension, he/she will naturally transmit these skills to assignments dealing with library resources.

Spermatogenesis In Limnodrilus Hoffmeisteri (Clap); A Morphological And Environmental Study Of The Development Of Two Sperm Types, Edward Michael Block

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Reinforcement Psychology And The Market Environment, Richard P. Eastman

Masters Theses

A functional analysis of behavior requires a monopoly of controlling variables. Where contingency-control is mutual, i.e., where there is mutual shaping of shaping, functional analysis of contingency control is impossible. Weingarten and Mechner's notion of 'dependent-contingency* analysis restores some sense here, but not enough to salvage grandiose schemes for monopolistically controlled experimental cultures.

Utopian behaviorists do not realize the scope of functions performed by markets in the human environment. Prediction and control of a dependent-variable culture requires prior elimination of entrepreneurship, (black) markets, and the far-reaching division of labor that is provided only by market coordination. Under such a system, …

A Behavioral System For Supervising Undergraduate Research, Gary D. Gant

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Photoconductivity And Photovoltaic Studies On Some Ii-Vi Compounds, Challa Nagesh

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The photoconductivity spectra of ultra-pure single crystals of CdS in the range 500-575 nm, CdSe in the range 700-900 nm, ZnSe in the range 420-570 nm and ZnS in the range 300-450 nm have been studied using an improved A.C. method of detection. The sensitivity of the apparatus is high enough to study weak photoconductors like ZnS. The photoconductivity spectrum of each substance showed a peak at the wavelength corresponding to the energy band gap of the substance. The energy band gaps obtained from the spectra are 2.35 eV for CdS, 1.6 eV for CdSe, 2.7 eVfor ZnSe and 3.6 …

Cognitive Clusters And The Phenomenology Of Depression In Psychiatric Populations, Steven A. Harris

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The Attitudes Of Students Toward The Social, Political, And Economic Development Of Guam, Franklin S. Cruz

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Community Education Directors In Michigan; A Systematic Study Of Their Attitudes Relative To Section 96 Of The State School Aid Act, Geoffrey E. Balkam

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A Parametric Study Of Geometric Progressive Ratio Performance, Ali Uzunoz

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Photon Counting System For The Determination Of Creatine Phosphokinase, Steven E. Dueball

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Racial And Class Biases In The Criminal Justice System: A Radical Conflict Interpretation, Mansoor Moaddel

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A Descriptive Analysis Of Bilingual Education Teacher-Training Programs In The State Of Michigan, Gilbert L. Montez

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Degree Of Client Manifest Anxiety As A Function Of Interaction Distance: An Investigation Of The Female-Female Counseling Dyad, Philip H. Knight

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Markovian Multiserver Queueing Systems With Servers In Series, Nancy Jean Boynton

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