Report of the Society's committee on silent reading
By: prepared by the committee from material submitted by J.A. O'Brien, May Ayres Burgess, S.A. Courtis ... [and others] Ed. by Guy Montrose Whipple ...
Contributors: Horn, Ernest, 1882-1967.; Whipple, Guy Montrose, 1876-1941.; Theisen, W. W. 1886-1969.; Burgess, May Ayres.; Gray, W.S. 1885-1960.; O'Brien, John A. 1893-1980.; Hoover, J. H.; Yoakam, Gerald Alan, 187-; Germane, Charles E., 1885-; Greene, Harry A. b. 1889.; Packer, J. L.; Heller, Regina R.; Courtis, Stuart A. 1874-1969.
Series: Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education -- 20th, pt. 2.
Published: 1921
Language: eng
Subjects: Reading (Elementary)
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Factors affecting results in primary reading, by W.W. Theisen.; title: Controlling factors in the measurement of silent reading, by M.A. Burgess.; title: Individual difficulties in silent reading in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, by J.A. O'Brien.; title: Motivated work in third-grade silent reading, by J.H. Hoover.; title: The effect of a single reading, by G.A. Yoakam.; title: Outlining and summarizing compared with re-reading as methods of studying, by C.E. Germane.; title: Measuring comprehension of content material, by H.A. Greene.; title: The vocabularies of ten first readers, by J.L. Packer.; title: The contents of readers, by D. Starch.; title: Exercises developed at Detroit for making reading function, by Regina R. Heller and S.A. Courtis.; title: Silent reading exercises developed at Denver, Cedar Rapids, Racine and Iowa City.