Describes activities and courses designed to help gifted secondary school students develop their skills in critical analysis and verbal expression. (FL)

Provides a model for a comprehensive reading program which has five components: the content teacher, the reading consultant, the developmental reading teacher, the remedial reading specialist, and the support staff. (HOD)

Reports on a survey used to evaluate the secondary school reading program in Polk County, Florida. (DF)

Concludes that reading clinics run by colleges offer services to the community as well as for training students in diagnosis and remediation and that their services, fees, and clients vary. (FL)

Explains how one teacher developed a cross-age tutoring program that allowed her high school students to help primary grade problem readers. Argues that high school students with reading problems make good tutors for troubled beginning readers because they are sympathetic and inventive. (FL)

Reveals the presence of reading improvement programs in all types of colleges in the American southeast, a continuing emphasis on diagnosis and prescription, and consensus on what professional training has been helpful. (FL)