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Adult Reading Plans: Enjoyment, Enrichment, And Inquiry, Nancy Jolly

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Purposeful reading can ennoble and expand any person's life and serve as a constant problem-solving device.

A Writing Approach To High School Reading, R. Baird Shuman

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Many of the problems which are endemic among middle school and senior high school youngsters who have difficulty in learning how to read effectively are overcome in writing workshops. Disabled readers at the secondary level often have a bad attitude toward reading. This attitude stems from their having developed bad self-images during their elementary school years, and these negative self-images are directly connected with their inability to perform at anticipated levels in the basic skills.

A Survey Of The Use Of Reading Readiness Tests, Marie Carducci-Bolchazy

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Reading readiness tests generally are intended to serve two purposes: (1) prediction of readiness for reading instruction and, to a degree, (2) diagnosis of deficiencies of specific skills that are prerequisites for reading. How successful are these tests in serving their purposes?

Review--Learning Games, For Infants And Toddlers, Sue Gay

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

No abstract available.

Reading Horizons Vol. 18, No. 3

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 18, issue 3.

Bulletin - Western Michigan University: The Graduate Catalog 1978-1980 , Western Michigan University

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Expensive Economy, Kenneth Vandermeulen

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

A letter from the editor.

Expanding The Reading Interests Of Secondary Students, Donald C. Cushenbery

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

All students encounter various required reading assignments during the course of a school day in the different content areas. The adolescent's attention is also directed to hundreds of other pieces of reading matter which may not be recommended or suggested by teachers or parents. Some students at both the high school and university levels contend that they have no available time for engaging in wide reading since required reading and school activities consume most of their study and leisure-time hours.

We Suggest, Eleanor Buelke

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Bruner, Jerome S., Jolly, Alison, and Sylvia, Kathy. (1976). Play--Its Role in Development and Evolution

The Modification Of Exercise Behavior Of Retarded Adults: Increasing Participation In Exercises Using Games As A Reinforcer, Linda Dawn Allen

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

An Internship Experience At The Specialty Products Division Brown Company, Ronald L. Freemire

Masters Theses

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Climatic Change Considered As The Major Factor In The Abandonment Of The Grand Canyon Region, Paulette Fern Rayel

Masters Theses

Introduction

Grand Canyon National Park comprises 1009 square miles of contrasting life zones and landscapes, with elevations ranging from 2500 feet at the Colorado River to more than 9000 feet of the North Rim. This area includes 117 miles of the Canyon, part of the Kaibab Plateua known as the North Rim and part of the Coconino Plateau or South Rim. Both formations are included in the Colorado Plateau (See Figures 1 and 2).

Archaeological evidence indicates that prehistoric agriculturalists - the Cohonina peoples and later the Anasazi - resided in the area from circa A. D. 700 until A. …

The Effects Of Prompting And Stimulus Novelty On The Frequency Of Play With Toys, Gloria J. Gasparotto

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Differential Temporal Onset Of Auditory And Visual Conditional Stimuli Upon Consummatory Licking Behavior Of Rats In A Discriminative Punishment Situation, Nelia Masiques

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Behavioral Contracting With Community Based Inmates For Job-Seeking Behavior, Thomas Krupar

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Modification Of Verbal Deficits Of Rural Teachers, Elizabeth Zissu

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Employee Reactions To Job Characteristics: A Partial Replication, Artegal R. Camburn

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Training Retarded Adults To Reinforce Work Behaviors Of Retarded Clients, A. Celso Goyos

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Age And Attitude Similarity-Dissimilarity As Determinants Of Task-Related Attraction, Sharon Fange Von Montry

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Use Of Aphasia Treatment Techniques In Restoring Language Behavior In The Senile Aged, Forrest H. Braack

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Some Implications For Learning Centers, Mark E. Thompson

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

It should be quite clear from the research evidence that successful students tend to plan their work carefully, think ahead, are conscientious, independent, self-confident and recognize the importance of finding suitable conditions for effective study (Entwistle and Entwistle, 1970). Being able to organize, having a good self-image and being flexible are most important traits for students to have. For students that are handicapped in various ways, there is hope. Students can learn academic skills, if they have a good teacher and work to help themselves.

How Disabled Readers Try To Remember Words, Catherine Morsink, Donald P. Cross, Jane Strickler

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Studies of memory tasks with normal learners, involving letters and word-like patterns, indicate that recall is easier when stimuli present familiar patterns, either as pronounceable syllables (Gibson, 1965) or as contextual dependencies (Miller & Selfridge, 1950). Blumberg (1968), studying associative learning tasks, found brain injured children to have the least difficulty in making associations between visual non-word like stimuli and spoken words, while having greatest difficulty with visual word-like associations. Bakker (1967) reports that severely disabled readers were significantly poorer than better readers in the recall of meaningful, but not meaningless, sequences.

Busy Parents Can Help Their Children Be Good Readers, Marilyn A. Colvin

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

What do you tell the parents of a primary grade child when they ask this age-old question. "How can I help my child be a good reader?" Or what do you say at the next P.T.A. meeting when your principal calls on you to address this question?

Bibliography: Solving Problems Through Reading, Willian S. O'Bruba

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Although bibliotherapy has been known and practiced since ancient times, the term itself is of more recent origin. It is generally credited to Samuel McChord Crothers in an article in Atlantic Monthly in 1916. Shrodes (1955) has defined bibliotherapy as "a process of dynamic interaction between the personality of the reader and imaginative literature which may engage his emotions and free them for conscious and productive use." The Association of Hospital and Institution Libraries has adopted as official the dictionary definition which reads . . . "guidance in the solution of personal problems through directed reading." Simply stated bibliotherapy is …

New Materials, Sandra Ahern

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

No abstract available.

Theoretical Thermodynamic Functions For Krypton Gas, A-Hamid Aidinejad

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Prostaglandins And Aspirin On Insulin Release From Isolated Normal Rat Islets, Barbara Ann Hopps

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Awareness And Usage Of Community Mental Health Services By Chicanos: The Effect Of Assimilation And Social Stratification, Fernando Munoz

Masters Theses

This is a study of the utilization of community mental health services by the Chicano population in a Western Michigan community. As members of the second largest ethnic minority group in the United States, the Chicanos are faced with many of the same social ills that plague other minorities. Discrimination, benign neglect, oppression, exclusion by institutions, poverty, high crime rate, alcoholism, physical and emotional disorder, and social disorganization are part of the everyday world of the Chicano. The inherent cultural vehicles, which Chicano culture uses in order to deal with the stresses associated with these social pathologies, will be explored. …

Differential Reinforcement Of Incompatible Behavior To Eliminate The Undesirable Behaviors Of Two Severely Retarded Adolescents, Glenn Flaska

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Ceramics Of The Sand Point Site (20bg14) Baraga County, Michigan: A Preliminary Description, Lawrence G. Dorothy

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.