Friday, April 21, 1995

                                                                                                                                                                       

 

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

        Board Meeting - SSSR Suite/ Room 2501

 

9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.

        Vital Issues - SSSR Suite/ Room 2501

 

                                                                                                                                                                       

 

Saturday, April 22, 1995

                                                                                                                                                                       

 

7:30 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.

        Registration - entrance

                Union Square Ballroom North

 

8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

        Plenary Session

                Union Square Ballroom North

 

Chair:      Marilyn Jager Adams

                        Bolt Bernack & Newman

 

Victor L. Willson, William H. Rupley, John Logan

Texas A & M University

A structural equation model for reading comprehension development based on background, phonemic, and structural knowledge.


 

William H. Rupley, Dee W. Nicholas, Victor L. Willson

Texas A & M University

A longitudinal cross-sectional study of the relationship of background knowledge and strategy knowledge on narrative comprehension, integrative comprehension, and expository comprehension in grades 3-6.

 

Philip B. Gough

University of Texas at Austin

The measurement of comprehension.

 

Joanna P. Williams

Teachers College, Columbia University

Toward a theory of theme comprehension.

 

Ralph Reynolds, Donna Salmen

 University of Utah

Selective attention and interest: Effects of prose learning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(NO SMOKING IN ANY SESSION)

                                                                                                                                                                       

 

Saturday, April 22, 1995

                                                                                                                                                                       

 

5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

        Business Meeting

                Union Square Ballroom North

 

7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

        Plenary Session

                Union Square Ballroom North

 

Chair:      Barbara Foorman

                        University of Houston

 

Joseph K. Torgesen, Richard K. Wagner, Carol Rashotte, Stephen Hecht

Florida State University

Relationships between phonological processing skills and word reading ability in grades K through 5.

 

Patricia Bowers

University of Waterloo

Implications for reading skill of a naming speed deficit accompanying a phonemic awareness deficit.

 

Frank Manis

University of Southern California

Speech perception deficits in reading disability.

 

David K. Dickinson, Molly Dolane-Rourke

EDC & Clark University

Current patterns of literacy instruction in primary grade classrooms.

 

Michael Pressley, Jennifer Mistretta,

Ruth Wharton-McDonald, Linda Yokoi

University at Albany, SUNY

National survey of outstanding grade 5 literacy teachers about their instruction.

 

9:00 p.m. - 12:00 p.m.

        Vital Issues

                Union Square Ballroom North

 

                                                                                                                                                                       

 

Sunday, April 23, 1995

                                                                                                                                                                       

 

8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

        Board Meeting - SSSR Suite/ Room 2501

 

(NO SMOKING IN ANY SESSION)

                                                                                                                                                                       

 

Saturday, April 22, 1995

                                                                                                                                                                       

 

2:25 p.m. - 3:25 p.m.

        Concurrent Session A

                Union Square Ballroom North

 

Chair:      William Rupley/Texas A&M University

 

Jim Wagner

Brock University

Analogy and rule-based processing in early word recognition.

 

Sandy Giancario, Jim Wagner

Brock University

Word family effects in analogy and rule-based processing in word recognition.   

 

Mary Lou McKinley, Jim Wagner

Brock University

The effects of sentence context on analogy and rule-based processing in word recognition.

 

Marie Carbone, Jim Wagner

Brock University

The effects of story context on analogy and rule-based processing in word recognition.   

 

2:25 p.m. - 3:25 p.m.

        Concurrent Session B

                Sutter Number 3

 

Chair:      Jamie Metsala/University of Maryland

 

Keith E. Stanovich, Linda S. Siegel, Alexandra Gottardo

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Phonological sensitivity, working memory, and syntactic processing as predictors of word recognition skill in third-grade children.

 

Elena Zaretsky, James M. Hodgson

MGH Institute of Health Professions

The influence of spoken language structure on phonological awareness in Russian- and English-speaking pre-readers.


 

Aydin Y. Durgunoglu, Montsererat Mir, Sofia Arino-Marti

Univ. of Minnesota, Middlebury College, Univ. of Illinois@Urbana-Champaign

Spelling proficiency in two languages of bilingual students.

 

3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

        Presidential Address

                Union Square Ballroom North

 

Ronald P. Carver/University of Missouri-Kansas City

One-second, one-minute, or one-year of reading: What difference does it make?

 

(NO SMOKING IN ANY SESSION)

                                                                                                                                                                       

 

Saturday, April 22, 1995

                                                                                                                                                                       

 

9:50 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.

        Concurrent Session A

                Union Square Ballroom North

 

Chair:      Virginia Berninger

                        University of Washington

 

Betty Ann Levy, Linda Lysynchuk

McMaster University

Segmentation versus whole word repetition: Optimal training methods for beginning and delay readers.

 

R. Malatesha Joshi

Oklahoma State University

The two components of reading: Implications for diagnosis and instruction.            

 

 

Frederick J. Morrison, Christina L. Hardway

Loyola University, Chicago

Ready to learn: Individual differences in children's academic and social skills at school entry and beyond.


 

9:50 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.

      Concurrent Session B

                Sutter Number 3

 

Chair:      Ann Pace

                        University of Missouri-Kansas City

 

Thomas W. Bean, John Readence

University of Hawaii at Hilo, University of Nevada at Las Vegas

            Reading attitudes of preservice and inservice teachers in Hawaii and Nevada: A comparative study.


 

Nancy Marshall

Florida International University

Comparing restricted and unrestricted summaries of stories.


 

Carol Christensen, John Elkins

The University of Queensland

Learning disabilities or difficulties: The impact of teachers' conceptions on identification, assessment and instruction of students with reading problems.

 

 

 

 

(NO SMOKING IN ANY SESSION)

 

                                                                                                                                                                       

 

Saturday, April 22, 1995

                                                                                                                                                                       

 

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

        Concurrent Session A

                Union Square Ballroom North

 

Chair:      Ralph Reynolds

                        University of Utah

 

Anthony V. Manzo, Ula Manzo, Michael McKenna

University of Missouri-Kansas City, Central Missouri State, Georgia Southern University

Cybernetic classrooms & schools.

 

Gale M. Sinatra, James M. Royer

University of Utah, University of Massachusetts

Investigating a new method of combining response time and accuracy scores on measures of reading ability.

 

Ernst Z. Rothkopf

Teachers College, Columbia University

Stability of individual readers' eye movements in six reading tasks.

 

 

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

        Concurrent Session B

                Sutter Number 3

 

Chair:      Peter Dewitz

                        University of Virginia

 

Victoria Purcell-Gates, Ellen McIntyre, Penny Freppon

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Learning written storybook language in school: A comparison of low-SES children in skills-based whole language classrooms.


 

Beverly Griffin Cox, Maribeth Schmitt, Brenda Williams

Purdue University

How does reading recovery contribute to literacy development: A preliminary report.


 

Connie Juel

University of Virginia

What makes tutoring effective: Do actions speak louder than words?


 

 

 

 

 

 

(NO SMOKING IN ANY SESSION)

 

                                                                                                                                                                       

 

Saturday, April 22, 1995

                                                                                                                                                                       

 

1:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

        Concurrent Session A

                Union Square Ballroom North

 

Chair:      Joanna Uhry

                        Fordham University

 

Linnea C. Ehri, Jill Saltmarsh

CUNY Graduate School

Beginning readers outperform older disabled readers in learning to read words by sight.


 

James M. Hodgson

Massachusetts General Hospital

Orthographic processes in literate adults with developmental dyslexia.

 

Laurence Rieben

University of Geneva

Word searching strategies and learning to read.

 

 

1:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

        Concurrent Session B

                Sutter Number 3

 

Chair:      Michael McKenna

                        Georgia Southern University

 

Mariam Jean Dreher

University of Maryland 

Children as researchers: Does process-emphasis research strategy instruction facilitate performance?

 

Pieter Reitsma

Paedologisch Instituut, The Netherlands

Learning to recognize affixes in printed words.

 

Barbara R. Schirmer

Lewis & Clark College

Reasoning during reading: The effect of teacher questions on the comprehension of deaf children.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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(Final Version)

 

PROGRAM

 

Second Annual Meeting

 

Society for the

 

Scientific Study

 

of Reading

 

April 21 - 23, 1995

Holiday Inn/Union Square

480 Sutter Street

San Francisco, California

1-800-243-1135

 

Program Committee:  Linnea Ehri (Chair), Connie Juel

 

President                       

Ronald P. Carver         

                                                                                   

President Elect                                                                         Elected

Linnea C. Ehri                                                                          Board Members

                                                                                                     

Vice-President                                                                          Joanna P. Williams

Connie J. Juel                                                                           

                                                                                                      Marilyn Jager Adams

Treasurer                                                                                 

Joseph K. Torgesen                                                                 Keith E. Stanovich

                                                                                                     

Secretary                                                                                   

David K. Dickinson                                                               Conference

                                                                                                      Coordinator

Historian                                                                                   Ann Pace

Ralph Reynolds                                                                      

                                                                                                      International

Publications Chair                                                                Coordinator

P. David Pearson                                                                     Pieter Reitsma