DOCUMENT RESUME CS 067 009. EDr 227 441 .& I Pearson', P. David,. .; Milken),Jane,Ed. AUTHOR , Reading: DisciplinedInquiry in,Process andPia TITLE t Twenty-Soventh'Yearimok of-the NationalReadiug onference, Conferinge, Inc. INSTITUTION Na ional Reading ; pus'DATE 78 meeting of the NOTE 302p.\Proceedings of the annual National ReadidgeConference(27th,.New Orleans,LA, pecember.1-3, 1977). Proceedings (021) -- PUS TYPE Collacted.Works - Conference Reports -Reseaich/Technical (143) --Information Analyses (070) MF01/PC13 Plus Postage. EDRS PRICE Elementary Secondary DESCRIPTORS Adults; *Cognitive Processes; Education; Evaluation Methods;Higher Education; Language Processing;Program Development;Reading Attitudes;.*Reading ComprehlliesionpReading Diagnosis; -*Reading Instruction;*Reading Processes;*Reading' Programs; *ReadingResearch; Study'Skills;%lichen Education; Word Recognition Conference (Organization), IDENTIFIERS National Reading , 4- , ABSTRACT The papers in thiscollection represent a wide viewpOints, and techniquesof spectrum ofapproaches, philosophies, their treatment of readingand its cognitive scholarly endeavot in meeting of the processes. The 48articles,.presented tt the 1977 ere arrangedaccording to the following Nationai Reading Conference, (2) reading and categories: (1) readingand teacher education, (3) reading and'wordidentification, (4) reading program developlent, (6) reading and and comprehension,(5) reading and language, reading and.the aged, (8)reading and the affective alsessment, (7) reading and studyskills. domain, (9) reading andresearCh, and (10) concludei with e review of1975-76*research on college The collection froirthe 1977 National Reading and adult reading,and.the program Conference. 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Flbrida,Atlantic University ENVARD FRY, Past-President Rutgers UniverSity FRANK GREENE, Member . McGill University JbANNA WILLIAMS,'Member Columbia University GARR CRANNEY, Member University qf Plofida' S. JAYSAMIJELS; Member University of Minnesota, RICHARD ROBINSON,6onvention Manager University of Missouri . c. P. DAVID PEARSON, .YearbookEdit& University of Minnesota J. JAAP TUINMAN, Editor Journal of Reading Behavior Simon Fraser University , EDITORIALADVISORY COMMITTEE .27th Ncic YEARBOOK AL KINGSTON DICKAILINGTON University of Georgia Stafe University of New York atAlbany MICI=IAEL KAMIL EUNICE ASKOV Purdue University Penn State University RON LE-SLIE EMERY BLIESMER tNew York University +!: Penn State University /MARTHA MAXWELL RICHARD BLOOMER University of California -Berkeley University of Connecticut , BONNIE J. F. MEYER DON CUNNINGHAM Arizona State University Indiana Uhivershty BEVERV(MORRISON , ';- JAMES CUNNINGHAM University of Wisconsin 'Universitit of North Carolina - , l` Chapel Hill CHRiS RAMIG Georgia StateUniversity PATRICIA CUNNINGHAAV Alamance County Schools - WILLIAM RUPLEY Graham, NC .fexas A&M University BETH DAVEY MARGARET SMITH-BURKE. ., University of Maryland New York University PRtCILLA DRUM - ELIZABETH SULZBY University of California - SantaBarbara Northwestern University 0 KEN DULA ROBERTTIRNEY, Unkiersity of Wisconsin University of ArizOna 'FRANK GREENE JOSEPH VAUGHAN McGill University University of Arizona, DOROTHY HANSEN DAVID M. WARK Brigham Young University University of Minnesota JEROME C. HARSTE Indiana University 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page READING AND TEACHER EDUCATION PreServiceteachers'perceptions of reading instruction .Noel Bdwling, JOseph Muia, and Gary Shaffer . - An effective'inservice model for cbntent area reading in the . seconOry schools. 6 Eunice Askov, MaryDupuis, and JoyceLee .teccrnent questions constructed bl.% : The eff.ttiveness secondary teachers , 13 Carol Davis Obsewed batterns of teacher-pupil claSsroom behavior as predictors of student growth in reading . 16 Jeffrey L. Lorentrand Homer Coker Teacher inferences of the charateristics of notWandard speaking readers ^ \ 20 Christopher Ramig and Robert C. Granger - AEADING AND PROGRAMIDEVELOPMENT The' effects of differing materials'on the reading,pro,Cess 27 John Stanselt, Jerome C. Harste; anh Roger J. DeSanti Effects of impulsity-reflectivity and type of phonics instrucflon.ob reading acrtievement 36 Sohn Readence and R. Scott Baldwin 1. READINGAND WORD IDENTIFICATION The development of orth'ographic sensiti ity during theschool 'year by primary grade children 41 Jerome Niles wird Barbara Taylor Experiments in Word learning 45 'Elizabeth Arnold,George McNinoh, and Wallace Miller "thildren's explanations of word similarities in relation to word knowness '51 Elizabeth Sulzby Word prediction of good and poor readers. 4 56 Richard AliiIngton and Michael Strange READING'AND COMPREHENSION / The acquisition of knowledge from text 61 Oregory Pearson Infererrtial operations of children in,vdlyed in discourse processind 68 .Bridge, R. Tierney, and M. Cera / vig ,Pade ft and poor readers across Comprehension profiles of good 73 materials of intreasing difficulty .. Jill Olshaisky " ability and semantic verification TherelationVip between reading .77'; .tlipsks J- Karen HanSon, Robert Schrei9er.,and Thomas,Hummel information processing in semantic . Percephial v, semantic 84 category decisions Michael Kamiland"RaymondHanson 88 Prose recall responses andcategories for scaring. , Priscilla Drum \- 93 Two factorsaffecting,text recall Roger Lantaff . readers' recall of propositionsfrom texts A system for scoring 99 ant/ cumulative effects ofinformation on inference making James Flood _ 106 What makas readingdifficult: the complexity of structures Eunice Schmidt of fast and slower readers Irnmediata memory for sentences 111. as a function of rateof presentatton Nancy Nelson arldjohnGeyer 116 Investigating the "print toMeaning" hypothesis . Patricia Cunni-ngham andJames Cunningham theory for readability 121 A partial validation of thekernel.distance Edward Fry, Jane Weber,and Joseph DePierre of story structures underthree Fourth graders' cOmprehension ;.125 recall conditions Laura Chodos and PeterMosenthal - , 1 .., i style and deletionpatteinS , Differential effects of prior context, .133 , , pn 66ze comprehension Gingrich, and DanielEagleeye Margaret Smith-Burke, Patricia -, READING AND LANGUAGE to know that the listener Some things the reader needs 138 doesn't Glenn Kleiman and DianeL. Schallert 143 A taxonomy of languageexperiences Andee Rubin "uvii or, Page 4 CharacterisAcs of the cloze procedure as a research tool' in the study of language ' 148 Earl Rankin . The relation of comprehenibn to semantic and syntatic language cues' utilized during oral and silent reading 154, 'eR..Ann Zinck \READING.AND.ASSESSMENT Assessing reading performante.at the secondary level through the utilization of a cognitive self-rating.scale 161 Charles Peters . The comprehension of pt.ose: problernain measuring learning ..outcomes 166 J..Bleakley and E. Johnson r Reliability of the doze procedurea'S assessments of various language elements 1 75 Joseph Vaughan and Keith Meredith. Stabiliity of doze scores across varying deletion patterns 181 Keith Meredith and Joseph Vaughan The reliability of the maze procedure for intermediate and junior high school studetas 185 John Bradley and Keith Meredith , The use of an unobtrusive screening devico to approximate- adult reading levels 190 Ellen West READING AND THE AGED Future shock and'ihe aged: is reading a cure of partof the problem'? 193 . Molly Wilsdn .Problems ir; the measureineant of intelleclual and linguistic capacities, including reading,,,in the aged 197 Terry Lovelace REAblk.IG AND THE AFFECTIVE DOMAIN Seft-perceptiOns and readinahabits of adolesdents, co//ege stu-dents, and adults 202 ratriciaAnders and Douglas Cardell READING AND RESEARCH :StiMulus