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Peer reviewedElijah, David; Legenza, Alice – Reading Improvement, 1980
Reports correlations between scores on the Metropolitan Readiness Tests, teacher rankings of reading readiness, and socioeconomic (SES) status of 536 beginning first-grade pupils. Discusses results in terms of the effects SES may have on both a student's readiness scores and a teacher's view of student readiness. (FL)
Descriptors: Primary Education, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction, Reading Readiness
Peer reviewedLegenza, Alice; Knafle, June D. – Reading Improvement, 1979
Indicates that pictures that elicit children's language depict more actions, children, and people than do pictures that elicit lesser amounts of language from children. (FL)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Childrens Literature, Illustrations, Language Research
Peer reviewedLegenza, Alice – Reading Improvement, 1978
Teaching procedures were designed to improve student inquiry as a means of improving student reading and learning skills. Results showed that seventh graders in the experimental situation had significantly higher scores on four of five questioning measures, on a vocabulary measure, and on an attitude scale. (RL)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Grade 7, Inquiry
