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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, …

Echoes From The Field, Ernie Adams

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Reading instructors have been using the language experience approach to teaching reading for a good many years. Philosophically, this approach to reading instruction like all others has been debated.

Take A Reading Vacation--Go Drp (Directed Reading Plan), George Canney

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

While vacationing may seem a remote thought from directing a reading program, effective implementation through daily lesson planning does require an analogous sequence of activities. Just as thoughtful preparation helps to make the trip successful, thoughtful planning for reading instruction can contribute toward more effective reading skill development with elementary level students.

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 …

A Study Of The Relationships Among The Variables Of Sex, Attendance, Standardized Achievement Test Scores, And Suspensions, Donald Leslie Osborne

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A Three-Year Field Study Of Cacalia Atriplicifolia, L. With Emphasis On Dispersal Mechanisms, Joann T. Athey

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A Report Of An Internship In Niles, Michigan, Public Schools, Frank A. Algate

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

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The Microbiological Ecology Of Slime Formation In A Paper Mill, Alexander E. Maccubbin

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The Revision And Implementation Of An Assessment Form, Cleophus Sturdivant

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The Prevalence Of 47, Xyy Males Among Collegiate Basketball Players, Joy Ann Price

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Geology Newsletter- 1976, Department Of Geology

Geological and Environmental Sciences News

Vol. 1, No . 2

• Dear Department Alumni and Friends
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The Effects Of Shock Intensity On Discriminative Punishment Of Consummatory Licking Behavior In Rats, Jose Gualberto Martins Angerami

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The Effect Of Attending Behavior Training On Performance Of A Paired Color Discrimination Task, Stephen Michael Aggas

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

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Toilet Training - A Critical Review, Albert Janes Gutierrez

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Counseling The Alcoholic And Drug Abuser, Carolyn B. Yaple

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Reading In The Secondary School: Studying Spelling Successfully, Kenneth Vandermeulen

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Accurate spelling is obviously an important outcome of every student's elementary and high school education. It is true that some research indicates a very low correlation between spelling ability and reading or verbal background. However, it is also true that correct spelling in the world of business is emphasized, perhaps out of proportion to the rest of the graduate's educational attainments. We cannot deny that prospective employees are measured on the basis of some first impressions. His appearance, however superficial that may seem, his conversation, and his letter of application or sample of writing in his resume-these are still the …

A Validation Of Tests For Selection Of Office Workers At Western Michigan University, Allen E. Doolittle

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Alcoholics In The Mental Hospital: The Effect Of Admission Path, Arthur Anderson

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

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Evaluations Of Former Kalamazoo Learning Village Participants, Salvatore S. Cullari

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Ethological Anthropology: An Examination Of Biological And Experimental Influences On Some Behavioral Systems In Human And Non-Human Primates, Robert Jennings Miller

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A Summary Of Experiences In An Internship In The Area Of School Business Management, Lawrence H. Stancliff

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The Paraprofessional Polemic: Investigating The Case Of The Paraprofessional In The Community Mental Health Center, William Joseph Riley

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

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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

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A Study Of The Relationship Of Cognitive Similarity To Communication Accuracy, Shirley C. Woodworth

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