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Applying Cloze Procedure To Children's Book Selections, Anne M. Ferguson
Applying Cloze Procedure To Children's Book Selections, Anne M. Ferguson
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
This study was designed to determine at what level, as measured by the doze procedure, sixth grade children selected trade books when a wide selection of books was available.
Characteristics Of Reading Programs In Michigan Community And Junior Colleges, Michael R. Hiatt, Ted K. Kilty
Characteristics Of Reading Programs In Michigan Community And Junior Colleges, Michael R. Hiatt, Ted K. Kilty
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
A study of the characteristics of reading programs offered to students in the thirty-three publicly supported community and junior colleges in the State of Michigan indicates that there are areas in which great strides have been made and other areas in which much work needs yet to be done.
Reviews--Children's Books, Nancy Weddle
Reviews--Children's Books, Nancy Weddle
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
No abstract available.
Professional Concerns: Reading And The Vocational/Industrial Arts Teacher, Michael T. Conroy
Professional Concerns: Reading And The Vocational/Industrial Arts Teacher, Michael T. Conroy
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Professional Concerns is a regular column devoted to the interchange of ideas among those interested in reading instruction. Send your comments and contributions to the editor. If you have questions about reading that you wish to have answered) the editor will find respondents to answer them. Address correspondence to R. Baird Shuman) Department of English) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Urbana) Illinois) 61801.
Reading Comprehension Is Crucial But Not Critical, James W. Cunningham
Reading Comprehension Is Crucial But Not Critical, James W. Cunningham
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Reading and English teachers are often aware that many adults who dislike reading in general and literature in specific learned their dislike through being required to memorize and parrot the teacher's interpretation and evaluation of pieces of writing. Countless articles and books have reported this phenomenon and called on teachers to foster democratic principles by encouraging individual responses and divergent thinking in their classes. These same teachers, however, see many of their students unwilling or unable to offer any response to what they have read. The resulting dilemma requires that teachers either make negative value judgments about the thinking of …
Can We Update Experienced Teachers' Beliefs And Practices In Reading?, Thomas W. Bean
Can We Update Experienced Teachers' Beliefs And Practices In Reading?, Thomas W. Bean
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
A recent review charting the impact of educational research on classroom teaching found that teaching practices, particularly in reading, were rarely modified to reflect current research findings (Clifford, 1973). Clifford chronicled the fragmentary, "one short" nature of much of the educational research produced and reported over the last fifty years. He suggested that a more unified body of cumulative research findings in a cohesive area of investigation might stand a better chance of influencing change in the classroom.
Appreciation Of Reading Through The Five Senses, Mary Jane Gray
Appreciation Of Reading Through The Five Senses, Mary Jane Gray
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
While the definition of reading remains an elusive one for reasons pointed out by Edmund Huey (1908) more than seventy years ago, there is one component of the reading process which surely deserves attention. That component is the appreciation gained in reading through the five senses. How is this accomplished? An examination of reading and its relation to the five senses should help to make this clear.
Editorial Comment: 1984 Is Not Just A Number, Kenneth Vandermeulen
Editorial Comment: 1984 Is Not Just A Number, Kenneth Vandermeulen
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
A letter from the editor.
Read A Book In An Hour, John A. Childrey Jr.
Read A Book In An Hour, John A. Childrey Jr.
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Why not use a wholistic technique to introduce a novel? Why not tear the chapters out and discover, not only a novel, its plot, themes, characters, but also deal with those elements as a group discovery? The technique should resemble a treasure hunt where the process of "getting there" is as exciting as arriving.
Nurturing Intelligence In The Classroom, Eleanor Buelke
Nurturing Intelligence In The Classroom, Eleanor Buelke
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
There is a fine balance, a significant subtlety, for a teacher to sustain in order to be a functional force in the classroom nurture of intelligence. Keenly sensitive perceptions are required if teachers are to Follow along, so to speak, ahead of the children, helping them to clarify, organize, and extend meanings as they reach out for understanding. "I Teachers' roles in this process demand a high degree of knowledge about our language and an active, creative part in its use. Pervasive habits of observing and listening should be enmeshed in the whole approach to teaching. More than that; as …
Adaptations Of Manzo's Guided Reading Procedure, Dixie Lee Spiegel
Adaptations Of Manzo's Guided Reading Procedure, Dixie Lee Spiegel
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
In 1975 Manzo described the Guided Reading Procedure, which was designed to "improve reading comprehension by stressing attitudinal factors- accuracy in comprehension, self-correction, and awareness of implicit questions, as well as cognitive factors, unaided recall and organizational skills" (pp. 291). As developed by Manzo, the Guided Reading Procedure (GRP) is to be used after the reading of a common selection. However, the GRP can easily be adapted as a pre-reading activity and as a post-reading activity when students have read different materials.
Rapid Computation Of The Spache Revised Readability Formula, Lawrence L. Smith
Rapid Computation Of The Spache Revised Readability Formula, Lawrence L. Smith
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Many people who use readability formulas avoid using the Spache Revised Readability Formula (1974) because, they say, it takes too much time. Others claim that the math is too complicated for them.
Teaching Methods Utilizing A Field Theory Viewpoint In The Elementary Reading Program, Shirley Lechuga, Heath Lowry
Teaching Methods Utilizing A Field Theory Viewpoint In The Elementary Reading Program, Shirley Lechuga, Heath Lowry
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
The trend in reading instruction during the past few years, has strongly focused on the whole child, his individuality, his feelings, beliefs, and goals as well as his cognitive abilities. All of these constitute the child's life space and are the "parts of the whole" that teachers must deal with. Consistent with this learning theory, the teacher's role has changed. Teaching now consists of the promotion and enrichment of the interactive learning process between the child and his environment. The teaching environment of the reading program is most important to the young reader's success. The acceleration of the reading process …
Management Systems In Secondary Reading Classrooms, Christine C. Smith, Carolyn Burch, Grace Warren
Management Systems In Secondary Reading Classrooms, Christine C. Smith, Carolyn Burch, Grace Warren
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
One outcome of federal, state or district funding of reading programs has been the development of a competency based curriculum with the inclusion of a classroom management system. This management system is the structure for the implementation of the goals, guidelines and behavioral objectives of the program. Each program with its management system is developed and written by teachers In consultation with school and/or district level cooperation.
Reading Research And Classroom Practices, Nicholas P. Criscuolo
Reading Research And Classroom Practices, Nicholas P. Criscuolo
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Research in reading has been voluminous over the years. Whether research has been conducted to satisfy one's doctoral requirements or whether it has been done by university or school personnel to prove or disprove an educational theory, a portion of the research studies done can be disclaimed for three simple reasons: (l) the hypothesis or premise under which the study was launched has been shabbily conceived, (2) the problem was not clearly defined, and (3) research results cannot be replicated or stand up against rigorous examination because of faulty research design.
Value Clarification Via Basal Readers, Leo M. Schell
Value Clarification Via Basal Readers, Leo M. Schell
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Value clarification activities are designed to promote many of the same qualities usually associated with critical reading. They typically center on situations where people have an opportunity to decide between or among different possible choices.
Reading Horizons Vol. 20, No. 3
Reading Horizons Vol. 20, No. 3
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 20, issue 3.
Reading And The Withdrawn Child, L.D. Briggs, Sherri Skelton
Reading And The Withdrawn Child, L.D. Briggs, Sherri Skelton
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
The emotional state of a poor reader may provide important insights into the causes of the child's reading problems. The teacher can attempt to find the source of the reading problems by observing the child's behavior and by determining the child's emotional stability. Once a diagnosis has been made, the teacher can begin a program of remediation with the goals of emotional stability and reading progress in mind.
Professional Concerns: Remedial Programs: Some Strategies For Creating A Supportive Learning Environment, R Baird Shuman, Barbara Fox
Professional Concerns: Remedial Programs: Some Strategies For Creating A Supportive Learning Environment, R Baird Shuman, Barbara Fox
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Professional Concerns is a regular column devoted to the interchange of ideas among those interested in reading instruction. Send your comments and contributions to the editor. If you have questions about reading that you wish to have answered) the ed£tor will find respondents to answer them. Address correspondence to R. Baird Shuman) Department of English) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Urbana) Illinois) 61801.
Thoughts On Books And Reading (A Guest Editorial), Richard D. Robinson
Thoughts On Books And Reading (A Guest Editorial), Richard D. Robinson
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
A letter from the guest editor.
Plant Seeds This Spring For Reading This Summer--Reap Rewards Next Fall!, Patricia Cunningham
Plant Seeds This Spring For Reading This Summer--Reap Rewards Next Fall!, Patricia Cunningham
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Once upon a time in a far-off land, there was a school system that worked very hard on its reading program. Everyone worked hard on reading. The School Board declared reading its top priority and put the lion's share of its budget into reading. The superintendent supported reading and lay awake nights thinking of ways to make the reading program better. All the principals thought reading was important and showed they felt this way by sponsoring schoolwide USSR and motivational reading programs and by listening to children read and reading to children. The teachers spent most of their day teaching …
Reading Horizons Vol. 20, No. 2
Reading Horizons Vol. 20, No. 2
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Complete Issue of Reading Horizons volume 20, issue 2.
Weighting Miscues In Informal Inventories: A Precautionary Note, James V. Hoffman
Weighting Miscues In Informal Inventories: A Precautionary Note, James V. Hoffman
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Even among those who are not readily in agreement with the numerous implications for instruction being put forward in the name of a "psycholinguistic" model of reading, there is substantial support for the constructive dialogue and spirited interactions which have been generated. The enthusiasm of some, however, has, at times, been taken to such extremes that the reality of the classroom has all but been ignored. Recently, for example, my students encountered some difficulty in reconciling certain practical applications of miscue techniques with another fundamental precept of reading instruction; that is, the critical role of successful practice in connected reading …
Teaching In Tandem: Media Specialist/Librarian & The Classroom Teacher, Diane Stephanie Wagner, Judith Rosenfeld
Teaching In Tandem: Media Specialist/Librarian & The Classroom Teacher, Diane Stephanie Wagner, Judith Rosenfeld
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
The NCTE/ AASL joint Committee on Learning Resources has been charged by both organizations with the responsibility of finding areas of cooperation and communication between media specialists/librarians and English teachers. Professionals in both fields have strong opinions about the nature and depth of experiences the student should have in a school media center. The questions upon which they are focusing their attention are: What skills are to be initially introduced, developed and reinforced? At what grade level are these skills to be taught? Where will the teaching process occur: in the classroom, media center/library, or both? Will the teacher or …
A Short-Cut To Testing Passage Comprehension, J Jaap Tuinman, Charles K. Kinzer, Neal A. Muhtadi
A Short-Cut To Testing Passage Comprehension, J Jaap Tuinman, Charles K. Kinzer, Neal A. Muhtadi
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
In this study the feasibility of administering the Woodcock Passage Comprehension Test in written rather than oral form was examined. ** In their short life the Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests (Woodcock. 1973) have quickly found wide-spread usage. A critical review of the tests by Tuinman (1978) points out various limitations to the claims made by Woodcock for his tests. but nevertheless recognizes this battery as an important and useful contribution to the field.
Psycholinguistics Applied To Reading Instruction, A Sterl Artley
Psycholinguistics Applied To Reading Instruction, A Sterl Artley
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Teachers who are doing their homework in the way of professional reading are meeting with increased frequency the word, psycholinguistics, especially as it relates to reading. One might assume that the very appearance of the word connotes some abstract body of knowledge having meaning only to language theoreticians. On the other hand it is possible that once understood, the word may be a label for a developing body of knowledge that has far-reaching implications for reading teachers. In fact, one might discover that for the most part psycholinguistic thinking puts into a new context much that has been accepted and …
Differentiating Text Assignments In Content Areas: Slicing The Task, John R. Readence, David Moore
Differentiating Text Assignments In Content Areas: Slicing The Task, John R. Readence, David Moore
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
There are several ways to accommodate content reading assignments with students' varied reading levels. Rieck (1977) reported that many times content teachers simply do not expect their students to read the text. She found that tests given in content classrooms often covered only material from lectures and class discussions rather than text reading. In addition, students were rarely required to discuss their assigned readings.
The Role Of Reading Specialist In Developing Iep's (Individual Education Programs), Shirley B. Merlin, Sue F. Rogers
The Role Of Reading Specialist In Developing Iep's (Individual Education Programs), Shirley B. Merlin, Sue F. Rogers
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Everywhere, supervisors, teachers and education specialists are busily engaged in inservice meetings and workshops in an effort to become familiar with writing, implementing and revising Individual Education Programs (IEP's) for children eligible or enrolled in a Special Education Program. The provision in The Education For All Handicapped Children Act, Public Law 94-142, requiring an IEP for each handicapped child has caused a great deal of activity and development in the field of Special Education.
A Model For Faculty In-Service In The Secondary Reading Program, George M. Usova
A Model For Faculty In-Service In The Secondary Reading Program, George M. Usova
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
The issue of developing effective in-service education within the secondary reading program is a concern for most curriculum supervisors and principals. While the reading program in the secondary school may be limited or partial in scope, the consequences of effective reading instruction extend into the content areas; consequently, all teachers need to become involved in the improvement of instruction in so far as reading affects their discipline.
Nonvisual Aspects Of Reading, Duane R. Tovey
Nonvisual Aspects Of Reading, Duane R. Tovey
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Psycholinguistic research has recently characterized reading as a communicative process whereby the reader predicts the thoughts of an author by sampling as little of the visual display (print) as possible (Goodman, 1967). How is it possible for a reader to predict an author's thoughts accurately without processing every segment of print? In addition to minimal visual cues, readers utilize both their oral language abilities and past experiences to predict an author's intentions - assuming they share common language patterns and experiences.