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Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

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The Interrelationship Of Conservation Reading Readiness And Intellectual Maturity Measures In First Grades, Victor Froese Jul 1976

The Interrelationship Of Conservation Reading Readiness And Intellectual Maturity Measures In First Grades, Victor Froese

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The developmental psychology of Piaget has had a profound effect on education both in Britain (Central Advisory Council for Education, 1967) and in America (Schwebel and Raph, 1973; Furth and Wachs, 1974; Piagetian Theory and Its Implications for the Helping Professions, 1970- 1975).

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We Suggest, Eleanor Buelke Jul 1976

We Suggest, Eleanor Buelke

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Rollo May. 1975. "The Courage to Create."

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Amateur Etymologists At Play, Louis Foley Jul 1976

Amateur Etymologists At Play, Louis Foley

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Still around are some of us who attended high school through the years 1906-1910. In my case that was in Zanesville, Ohio, which periodically over the years has been portrayed in magazine articles as "the typical American town." In those days high school principals did not seem to be chosen primarily as administrators specially skilled in management. The principal of a school was the principal teacher, supposed to be something of a scholar, often addressed as "professor." He was expected to be familiar with the subject-matter of the curriculum as a whole. If a teacher had to be absent for …

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Development Of "Reading Want Ads:" A New Informal Reading Inventory For Older Exceptional Children, Catherine Morsink Jul 1976

Development Of "Reading Want Ads:" A New Informal Reading Inventory For Older Exceptional Children, Catherine Morsink

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This article describes the procedures used in the development of a new reading test for older remedial readers, particularly those in special education classes.

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Reading To Write, Bruce A. Lloyd Jul 1976

Reading To Write, Bruce A. Lloyd

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The functions of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, should form a solid foundation from which students can learn as they grow toward maturity in their educational endeavors. Without a proper grasp of those functions, a language imbalance occurs. One might say that the foundation tilts because the base is not sufficiently solid in each direction. As a result one or more language functions are slighted and may not mature sufficiently or may atrophy because of disuse.

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Reading Horizons Vol. 16, No. 4 Jul 1976

Reading Horizons Vol. 16, No. 4

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Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 16, issue 4.

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Author Index Jul 1976

Author Index

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Index to authors in volume 16.

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Instructional Practices Which Contribute To Sight Vocabulary Deficits, Carl Braun Jul 1976

Instructional Practices Which Contribute To Sight Vocabulary Deficits, Carl Braun

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In examining clinical reading records, one is struck with a number of learners whose problems relate in some way to a sight vocabulary deficit. The gravity of this can only be fully apprehended when one recognizes that a child with a sight vocabulary problem is not "just another reading problem." His is a limiting problem-a problem, which if uncorrected, stands the strong risk not only of crippling his total reading growth but, indeed, crippling his self-concept as a learner.

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Micro-Simulation To Prepare Reading Teachers, Bea Mayes Jul 1976

Micro-Simulation To Prepare Reading Teachers, Bea Mayes

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What can pre-service teachers do to prepare themselves for classroom teaching? Micro-simulationsl

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Advertising's Magic Language--A Primer For The Reading Blahs, Harvey Frommer Jul 1976

Advertising's Magic Language--A Primer For The Reading Blahs, Harvey Frommer

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Over the years, students have been bogged down and bored by reading comprehension exercises. Bracing themselves for the mad pencil-pointing scarring of (A), (B), (C), (D), and on occasions (E), it sometimes seemed that the skill being taught was the ability to eliminate the worst of a choice of answers. Exercise passages in texts, workbooks, manuals, also generally have concerned themselves with dated and dusty materials. Norse verse poets of the 12th century vied and still vie with lengthy tracts extolling the virtues of the onion as a very useful vegetable. It is not a distortion to affirm that the …

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Write To Read: The Language Experience, Gerald Zinfon, Charles R. Duke Jul 1976

Write To Read: The Language Experience, Gerald Zinfon, Charles R. Duke

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Writing instruction at all levels of student development should focus on and nurture the individual's confidence in using his native language. The teacher who provides students with opportunities to explore their own perceptions, their own experience in their writing and reading, can build language confidence and competence.

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Article Index Jul 1976

Article Index

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Index to articles in volume 16.

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Echoes From The Field, Ernie Adams Jul 1976

Echoes From The Field, Ernie Adams

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No abstract available.

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Ten-Second Reviews Jul 1976

Ten-Second Reviews

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No abstract available.

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Professional Concerns, R. Baird Shuman Apr 1976

Professional Concerns, R. Baird Shuman

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Professional Concerns is a column new to the pages of Reading Horizons. Its purpose is to promote dialogue and an exchange of ideas among those concerned with reading instruction at all levels. Comments about reading instruction are invited. Those who have questions which they would like to have answered by someone uniquely qualified to provide answers are urged to send their questions to the editor who will pass them on to an expert in the field for response.

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A New Study Habits Inventory: Description And Utilization, Mark E. Thompson Apr 1976

A New Study Habits Inventory: Description And Utilization, Mark E. Thompson

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Study habits inventories have successfully identified a proclivity for academic achievement not accounted for by ability. These inventories may be identifying a motivational trait that is difficult to chart by using traditional ability measures. The concept of motivation is quite difficult to pin down, and professional educators often turn to their particular notions of motivation when explaining success or failure. Motivation has been characterized as a conceptual charlady widely used for sweeping up variance in academic attainment unaccounted for by traditional intellectual or educational variables (Entwistle, et ai., 1974).

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Humanism In Teaching, Kenneth Vandermeulen Apr 1976

Humanism In Teaching, Kenneth Vandermeulen

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A letter from the editor.

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Administrators Can Help Meet Reading Improvement Objectives, Roger H. Garvelink Apr 1976

Administrators Can Help Meet Reading Improvement Objectives, Roger H. Garvelink

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Total commitment to the improvement of the reading skills of our elementary and middle school students resulted from a performance objective initially set by our Board of Education. In some way all staff members were involved in the improvement of delivery systems and assessment programs.

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Some Semantics Of Basic Word Lists, Patrick Groff Apr 1976

Some Semantics Of Basic Word Lists, Patrick Groff

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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 …

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We Suggest, Eleanor Buelke Apr 1976

We Suggest, Eleanor Buelke

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John B. Carroll and Jeanne S. Chall (editors). 1975. "Toward a Literate Society."

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Ten-Second Reviews Apr 1976

Ten-Second Reviews

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No abstract available.

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Reading Horizons Vol. 16, No. 3 Apr 1976

Reading Horizons Vol. 16, No. 3

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Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 16, issue 3.

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Reading And The Bicentennial Celebration, Nicholas P. Criscuolo Apr 1976

Reading And The Bicentennial Celebration, Nicholas P. Criscuolo

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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.

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Meaningful Vs. Meaningless Utterances In Inventories And Their Effects On Pupil Performance, Jerome Axelrod Apr 1976

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

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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 …

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Sustained Silent Reading (Ssr) As In Let Them Read, Ronald G. Noland Apr 1976

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

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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.

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Some Reasons For Oral Reading, R. Baird Shuman Apr 1976

Some Reasons For Oral Reading, R. Baird Shuman

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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, …

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Echoes From The Field, Ernie Adams Apr 1976

Echoes From The Field, Ernie Adams

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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.

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Take A Reading Vacation--Go Drp (Directed Reading Plan), George Canney Apr 1976

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

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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.

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Eric/Rcs Report: Retrieving Information From Eric, Rodney J. Barth Apr 1976

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

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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 …

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Reading In The Secondary School: Studying Spelling Successfully, Kenneth Vandermeulen Apr 1976

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

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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 …

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