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Direct linkHiebert, Elfrieda H. – Reading Teacher, 2022
According to interpretations of results from the latest oral reading fluency (ORF) study conducted by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (White et al., 2020), fourth-grade students who score below the basic standard require interventions that focus on word recognition, phonological decoding, and fluency. Before such mandates for…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Reading Tests, Oral Reading, Reading Fluency
Download full textRead, Charles – 1988
A study examined basic reading skills among men in prison, comparing poor and adequate readers with respect to comprehension, decoding, short-term memory, and speech perception. Subjects, 88 inmates of normal intelligence, normal hearing, and no significant speech abnormalities, at a minimum-security prison, were given reading comprehension tests…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Decoding (Reading), Listening Skills
Peer reviewedBulcock, J. W.; Beebe, Mona J. – Canadian Journal of Education, 1981
Examines "primacy of speech perception" hypothesis. Finds covariation between reading and numeration for 94 fourth graders explained by phonetic, syntactic, and semantic cueing strategies as mediated by school-dependent basic language skills. Elasticities analysis demonstrates reading and numeration were not responsive to children's…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cognitive Style, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education
Smith, Cyrus F., Jr.; Kepner, Henry S., Jr. – 1981
The concept that it is important for students to learn how to read the language of mathematics is promoted. Most mathematics teachers neither have the knowledge nor feel the responsibility to develop reading skills in their students. The materials in this document are viewed to be of sufficient variety and potential for making important…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Content Area Reading, Decoding (Reading), Instructional Materials
Spodek, Bernard – 1979
The "back to basics" movement raises questions regarding the nature of reading that is assumed in instruction and testing. Of the three definitions of reading (decoding, meaning-from-page, and intellectual processes) the latter view, which sees reading as a broad range of perceptual, associative, and cognitive elements, is preferred. The…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Early Reading
Taylor, Vivian Baker; Rosecrans, Deborah – 1986
A study investigated the effects of computer-assisted instruction on the vocabulary development of college students enrolled in a developmental reading program at a two-year college of a metropolitan, midwestern university. The subjects were 41 entry level students, 98% of whom had never used computers as an instructional tool. The students were…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction
