Cooperative Study of Reading 



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reading instruction will be given in the final section of this 

 report. 



Table VII presents the average quality scores for Indiana 

 and for Groups I, II, and III. The same facts are presented 

 in graphical form in Diagram 11. The results are not so uni- 

 form as they were in the two earlier comparisons of the scores 

 for these groups. In general, however, it may be said that 



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City 5 Indiana 



Diagram 10. Average Quality Scores in Silent Reading for Indiana 

 AND Three Selected Cities 



Group I ranks lowest, Group II ranks highest, and Group III 

 is intermediate in quality of silent reading. The relative posi- 

 tions which these groups hold in quality of silent reading cor- 

 respond with the results which were secured in the study of 

 oral reading achievement. 



The objective study of reading in Indiana may be sum- 

 marized as follows: 



1. The cities of Indiana rank relatively low in achieve- 

 ment in the three phases of reading which were measured. 



