This article describes a new approach to reading; emphasis is placed on emotion provoking words. (BB)

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," is designed to minimize the rigidities of the typical basal, three-group plan for teaching primary-level reading. The program serves over 4600 students in grades one through three throughout the Seattle School District. The students come from both inner-city and residential areas…

Current trends in secondary developmental reading programs have been encouraging. Research on the components of such reading programs is being done, and the results of this research are being communicated to teachers in secondary schools. Education programs in colleges and universities are becoming involved with the local school systems and their…

A Reading Buddy Program where high school and university students help junior high students who are having difficulty in reading is a method of improving reading skills and the students' self concepts. (JH)

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," was begun in 1970 and serves more than 26,000 students in grades 1-5 in 77 Fort Worth elementary schools. A diagnostic-prescriptive approach is used to teach reading to these students. A "Continuum of Reading Skills" sets forth a basic philosophy, a herrarchy of skills,…

This booklet describes a junior high school reading laboratory located in Urbana (Illinois) Junior High School, Fisher Campus. The student population in the school numbers approximately 950. Students have individual schedules, with six instructional classes of fifty minutes per day. Students enrolled in the lab attend each day for a regular…

This volume reports on a study to investigate the effectiveness of a developmental, individualized reading laboratory program at the middle-school and high-school levels. The program was developed and evaluated over a four-year period, at the F.K. Yonge Laboratory School, located at the University of Florida at Gainesville. Promising results…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 1728 students in kindergarten through grade six and 429 students in grades seven through twelve. Most of the students are white, live in a small town, and are from middle-income families. The program began in 1961 and provides detailed guidelines for each grade level on…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves over 800 rural elementary school students, both black and white. The program curriculum is designed to improve the student's basic skills in reading and social science learning. The student reads or listens to short passages that are based on the concept of the functional…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves almost 9000 children ranging from preschoolers to sixth graders. The program is actually a series of programs designed to coordinate reading instruction. It includes the following features: a complete diagnostic testing program beginning at age four; individualized reading…

The research and development activities of Research and Instruction Units at four elementary schools in Madison, Wisconsin, during the 1966-67 school year are summarized. Individualization and motivation were the focal points of these projects; special attention was given to language arts. Neither of the language environment programs yielded…

This paper presented at the International Reading Association in Denver defines a basal reader series as an interrelated set of materials for teaching fundamental reading skills and attitudes, including not only traditional eclectic basal readers but also linguistic, phonic, and programed series. As new developments come to the fore in reading…

Since both good and poor reading achievement have been produced with any one of several developmental reading approaches, teacher characteristics are thought to be an important, however seldom tested, variable in reading achievement. A study conducted by the author which employed the author constructed Teacher Effort Scale in Reading indicated…

One of the programs included in "Effective Reading Programs...," this program serves more than 1,800 children in grades 1-8. Begun in 1972, this program is designed to provide a strong foundation in reading. The teachers in the district defined by behavioral objectives those reading skills essential to decode and comprehend unfamiliar…