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Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

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Reading In The Secondary School: The Role Of The Reading Resource Person In High School, Kenneth Vandermeulen Jul 1975

Reading In The Secondary School: The Role Of The Reading Resource Person In High School, Kenneth Vandermeulen

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

It is almost a sure bet that when someone graduates from a college or university with a number of credit hours in the teaching of reading, the hiring institution will attempt to employ this person as a remedial reading instructor. It is secondly a sure bet that the personnel director will recommend this graduate to a principal who has been beset by complaints about reading problems in all the content area classes. And, according to the typical history, the teachers in that high school will refer to the new reading teacher those students who are deep in academic difficulties.

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We Suggest, Eleanor Buelke Jul 1975

We Suggest, Eleanor Buelke

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Hoy, James F. and Somer, John. 1974. The Language Experience

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Echoes From The Field, Joe R. Chapel Jul 1975

Echoes From The Field, Joe R. Chapel

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No abstract available.

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First-Aid For Troubled Readers, William S. O'Bruba Jul 1975

First-Aid For Troubled Readers, William S. O'Bruba

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

More children are experiencing difficulty in reading than in any other subject area in the elementary classroom. There are various degrees of a reading disability. A reading disability can range from a reader who is a grade or two below the level of his peers to a child who is a complete non-reader. In most cases, the concern of the elementary classroom teacher of reading is to see to it that the children are able to read well enough to perform the work of the specific class-level and to receive some enjoyment from their reading. If an ordinary classroom teacher …

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Using Visual Highlighting To Teach Discriminations And Patterns, Richard Allington Jul 1975

Using Visual Highlighting To Teach Discriminations And Patterns, Richard Allington

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Every day in classrooms throughout the country one can find children experiencing visual discrimination problems. One can also find a massive amount of teaching effort directed towards correcting those same problems, too often with limited success. Recent research has raised many questions about the usefulness of the most popular commercially available training materials (i.e. Frostig, Kephart, Michigan Tracking). However, research has also identified useful techniques that classroom teachers might employ.

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Teach Them Reading While You Teach Them Spanish…Or French…Or Any Other Subject, Maria Luisa Alvarez Harvey Jul 1975

Teach Them Reading While You Teach Them Spanish…Or French…Or Any Other Subject, Maria Luisa Alvarez Harvey

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Teachers in general are well aware of the appalling reading deficiencies that many students bring to the classroom. This is true at the elementary, the secondary, and the college level. (1) In many cases, however, teachers of subject matter tend to refuse to accept responsibility for helping students to overcome their reading problems. (3) Such an attitude is, of course, understandable, as the limited time that students spend in any particular class is barely sufficient to "teach" them the subject itself. The additional responsibility of teaching reading may seem to many educators not only an unfair imposition, but an impossible …

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The Mythology Of Reading: I--Sight Words, Patrick Groff Jul 1975

The Mythology Of Reading: I--Sight Words, Patrick Groff

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It is significant to note that the teaching of "sight" words was not one of the "persistent questions on beginning reading" which a carefully- selected group of experts recently chose to discuss (1). Indeed, from what one knows of this topic it would have been surprising to find the notion that young children should be first taught words as "wholes" being given critical examination in any such discussion. This is because the validity of instruction in "sight" words is accepted without question by almost all of today's experts in reading instruction.

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Disruptive Effect: A Phenomenon In Oral Reading, John W. Miller Jul 1975

Disruptive Effect: A Phenomenon In Oral Reading, John W. Miller

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The major purpose of the present study is to examine the effect that an unknown word has on the oral reading of second grade children. Specifically, the study is concerned with the possible increased probability of error on words that are in close proximity to an unknown word. Additionally, the study examines the degree of disruptiveness created by unknown words in different grammatical positions, and the degree of disruptiveness of various types of unknown words.

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A Comparative Study Of Attitudes Of First Grade Children In Two Reading Programs--Individualized And Basal, Ann Warren, E. Coston Frederick Jul 1975

A Comparative Study Of Attitudes Of First Grade Children In Two Reading Programs--Individualized And Basal, Ann Warren, E. Coston Frederick

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Many studies have been done comparing individualized and basal reading programs, but few have employed a valid attitude scale to evaluate attitudes toward reading at the primary level.

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Reading Programs At The Community College Level, Dorothy J. Mcginnis Jul 1975

Reading Programs At The Community College Level, Dorothy J. Mcginnis

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A letter from the editor

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Reading Horizons Vol. 15, No. 4 Jul 1975

Reading Horizons Vol. 15, No. 4

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 15, issue 4.

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Something Of What English Owes French, Louis Foley Apr 1975

Something Of What English Owes French, Louis Foley

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

From the point of view of English, French cannot be considered as simply one of the languages of Europe. As an example of influence of one language upon another, its immense contribution to English is a unique phenomenon in the world experience of language development.

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Echoes From The Field, Joe R. Chapel Apr 1975

Echoes From The Field, Joe R. Chapel

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During the 1975 summer session at Western Michigan University, there will be a large scale therapy program conducted by the Reading Center and Clinic and the Para-School Learning Center. Graduate students in the final stages of the Master's degree in Teaching of Reading will provide therapy for disabled readers at the Para-School.

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We Suggest, Eleanor Buelke Apr 1975

We Suggest, Eleanor Buelke

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Rubin, Louis J. (editor). Facts and Feelings in the Classroom. 1973. New York: Viking Press

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A Second Grade Experiment With A New Reading-Language Process, Bruce A. Lloyd, Linda Cobbs Apr 1975

A Second Grade Experiment With A New Reading-Language Process, Bruce A. Lloyd, Linda Cobbs

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Experimentation with innovative reading and language instructional processes is a vital necessity if teaching is to be effective and keep pace with our ever-changing society. 1 Pupils need to learn to read and read well if they are to become contributing citizens and since they learn best through various approaches, it seems logical that many reading instructional models should be made available for teachers to use. This implies that new programs should be discovered and also that they be tested in order to determine their viability with students in the classroom. Such is the nature of this report.

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Round Robin, Dorothy E. Smith Apr 1975

Round Robin, Dorothy E. Smith

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Letters to the Editor.

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Ten-Second Reviews, Betty L. Hagberg Apr 1975

Ten-Second Reviews, Betty L. Hagberg

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

No abstract available.

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Reading Horizons Vol. 15, No. 3 Apr 1975

Reading Horizons Vol. 15, No. 3

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 15, issue 3.

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The Process Of Observing Oral Reading Scores, William D. Page, Kenneth L. Carlson Apr 1975

The Process Of Observing Oral Reading Scores, William D. Page, Kenneth L. Carlson

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Oral reading has a varied history of interpretation (12) and IS presently under scrutiny in terms of characteristics rather than quantity (5). Despite the doubt that controversies generate, the identification and tabulation of oral reading errors dominate decisions generated in practice us,ing informal reading inventories. In practice, informal reading inventories depend on identification, scoring, and interpretation of oral reading errors. Controversies are usually ignored perhaps in the hope that the expert judgment of reading specialists overcomes the difficulties. Beldin (1) explores the controversial history of informal inventories. From early studies to the present, doubt surrounds scoring criteria ( 7, 9, …

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Reading In The Secondary School: Emotion As A Factor In Concentration, Kenneth Vandermeulen Apr 1975

Reading In The Secondary School: Emotion As A Factor In Concentration, Kenneth Vandermeulen

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A recent survey conducted to explore areas of problems in students' academic work brought out the fact that 92% of our young people indicated a difficulty in concentrating. One .is struck by the high degree of unanimity in this matter. Some respondents make such revealing remarks as: "I can't remember what I have just read"; "My mind keeps going off the subject"; and, "It seems impossible for me to concentrate." Along with these confessions, one finds reasoning that searches for places to lay the blame, as: there is too much noise, the text is boring, the assignment was too confusing, …

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An Invitation To Violence, Dorothy J. Mcginnis Apr 1975

An Invitation To Violence, Dorothy J. Mcginnis

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

A letter from the editor.

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The Innovators: The Jordan-Adams Learning Center, William L. Holladay Apr 1975

The Innovators: The Jordan-Adams Learning Center, William L. Holladay

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The Jordan-Adams Learning Center has a simple, straightforward philosophy that circumvents this rigidness of thought; do and use anything that works.

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The S.S. Reading: Does It Float?, John C. Towner, Howard M. Evans Jan 1975

The S.S. Reading: Does It Float?, John C. Towner, Howard M. Evans

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Increasing numbers of both elementary and secondary teachers have implemented Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) as a part of their program in reading instruction. Much of this implementation has occurred and will continue primarily on the recommendation of its proponents. There has been no serious examination of the assumptions by these proponents of its effectiveness in bringing about the benefits claimed for it. The tremendous importance attached to learning to read and the limited time available in which to provide instructional activities toward that end should lead us to a rigorous evaluation of SSR whenever and wherever it becomes a component …

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Round Robin, Dorothy E. Smith Jan 1975

Round Robin, Dorothy E. Smith

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Letters to the Editor

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Musings Of A Sixth Grader, Charlotte S. Ehresman Jan 1975

Musings Of A Sixth Grader, Charlotte S. Ehresman

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Creative writing is an unfolding process which I firmly believe is a "must" in every classroom. It is the heart of the language arts program and is an effective therapeutic device for the re-enforcement of a child's innermost feelings.

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Teacher Education In The Field Of Reading, David B. Doake Jan 1975

Teacher Education In The Field Of Reading, David B. Doake

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

For too long a pervasive idea in the field of teacher education has been that primary teachers only, and more especiaHy those primary teachers who are concerned with the education of the very young, have the sole responsibility for teaching the students who are moving through our educational institutions how to read. The beginning and the end of the process of learning to read effectively have been left almost entirely in the hands of the primary teacher, who, up until recently, has experienced only minimal courses in the field of reading as part of his pre-service training. One of the …

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Reading Achievement And The Administrative Team, Dorothy J. Mcginnis Jan 1975

Reading Achievement And The Administrative Team, Dorothy J. Mcginnis

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

A letter from the editor.

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The Resurrection Of Comprehension Questions, Gloria T. Mann Jan 1975

The Resurrection Of Comprehension Questions, Gloria T. Mann

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

There is a growing concern by the public that schools are not preparing their students to think critically. This is exemplified by the numerous articles appearing in newspapers and in magazines. It appears to be the contention of many parents that the primary goal of learning is the retention of factual information.

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We Suggest, Eleanor Buelke Jan 1975

We Suggest, Eleanor Buelke

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Ames, Louise Bates, & Chase, Joan Ames. Don't Push Your Preschooler, 1974. New York: Harper & Row

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Ten-Second Reviews, Betty L. Hagberg Jan 1975

Ten-Second Reviews, Betty L. Hagberg

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

No abstract available.

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