The best way to help improve reading teacher instruction during the 1980s is through inservice emphasis upon efficient instructional practices and management techniques. However, many inservice programs are ineffective due to lack of coordination. An effective inservice program can be organized by using the following sequence: (1) a steering…

This guide presents a staff development program on content area reading that high school reading specialists can conduct for teachers of content areas such as history, chemistry, and literature. Section one of the guide offers specific reasons why professional growth is necessary for teachers, why reading education ought to be part of that…

This manual provides a common philosophy of preservice teacher preparation and a framework that can be utilized for the design of preservice teacher preparation programs in reading on the elementary school level to achieve the goals and objectives of the national Right to Read office. Discussion concerns (1) the establishment of a Right to Read…