Helping Students Understand Complicated Sentences

Teachers at all grade levels are often faced with students whose word analysis and vocabulary skills are adequate, yet who have a problem reading and understanding connected text in sentence form. Problems in sentence comprehension become particularly marked when students are asked to deal with the complicated sentence structures typical of more advanced reading material. Such sentences may have multiple subjects and predicates, embedded clauses and phrases, passive voice, and/or unusual word orders

The Verbal Language of Public Television

Television is a phenomenon that touches the life of almost every American child. Indeed, the average eighteen year old in the United States has watched 18,000 hours of television (Liberman, 1983). The effects of such a concentrated block of time on the child\u27s development have to be considerable. These effects influence many areas of the child\u27s life-psychological, sociological, perhaps even physiological. It is the area of television\u27s language modeling that is of interest in this article

The Effect of Interest on the Reading Comprehension of Gifted Readers

All too often, little attention in our classrooms goes into getting the most out of\u27 superior students. This is particularly true in the field of reading. As long as their reading performance is consistently above average, superior students are often considered to be doing well in reading. However, this overlooks the fact that such readers may still be performing far below their potential. That is, gifted students should exhibit extremely superior reading ability-yet teachers are often content with less-than-minimum performance from these individuals

Reading Interests Among Fifth and Sixth Grade Children

This article reports the results of an interest survey given to children in four fifth and sixth grade classrooms. The author especially wished to determine if the sex differences in interest reported by so many writers (Norvell, 1958; McKay, 1968; Beta Upsilon Chapter, 1974) were still in effect today

Organizing Reading Material into Thought Units to Enhance Comprehension

Many teachers recognize that type of poor reader who knows the words but just can\u27t comprehend what he or she is reading. Reading programs have been relatively successful in dealing with tasks at the word level, yet we recognize that comprehension is truly the goal of reading. Teachers have been clamoring for ideas to enhance the comprehension abilities of their students. This article offers one suggestion for the improvement of comprehension

Studies in the physiology of milk bacteria with special reference to conditions of growth and resistance to desiccation

The thesis has been divided into three sections. Section I describes a convenient method for estimating the viable count of a bacterial population, which was evolved during the course of the work; Section II deals with the death rates of the commoner milk micro-organisms when subjected to desiccation, and Section III with the growth of pure cultures of these organisms in milk. The work that was undertaken first was that described in Section III. It was originally intended to investigate the behaviour of bacteria in pure culture in milk and then to deal with mixed cultures and their mutual effects, under the same conditions. The results obtained indicated however, that the problem was more complex than had been anticipated and that a large amount of work with pure cultures would be necessary before the problem of mutual influences could be explored satisfactorily. On the advice of Dr. T. Gibson it was decided that this could not be overtaken in the time that was available and this problem was therefore abandoned in favour of the work described in Section II on the desiccation of micro- organisms