In order to systemically improve student achievement in elementary literacy, a large urban school district partnered with a local university to develop a model for high-quality professional development that hopefully would result in long-term changes in teachers' literacy instructional/practices. Schools were selected based on their Adequate…

For more than twenty years the benefits of extensive reading have been proclaimed to the ELT community, but the inclusion of extensive reading in ELT programmes is far from universal. Extensive reading appears to be particularly absent in higher educational and English for Academic Purposes settings. This paper reports on the implementation of an…

Examines the Communication Skills Program at Rutgers State University as a model for other college reading programs for improving comprehension and notetaking skills. (RB)

Describes a competency-based reading program at Illinois State University and presents some of the limitations and advantages of such a program. (RB)

Examines the role of the college reading professor in terms of applying pure research to the realities of classroom instruction. (RB)

Faculty, administrators and librarians should form a three fold guarantee of total involvement in reading programs. (Editor/IR)

Suggests that a directed reading and study skill use of content periodicals as a supplementary aid can produce measurable reading comprehension gains and observable content area enrichment. (JM)

Discusses a survey of college reading programs and offers suggestions for future planning concerning such reading programs. (JM)

Presents results of a survey to determine the characteristics, organizational patterns, instructional methods, and current trends in university reading clinics in the United States. (FL)

Describes a self-directed, individualized program using performance contracts to improve reading skills in both developmental and remedial reading areas. (RB)

The need for and the limits of flexibility in college reading and study skills instruction are discussed with regard to the diversity of student population and theories on the reading process. (HTH)

A program for tutorial assistance and tutor training at the University of Texas at Austin is described in this document. The tutorial assistance program attempts to provide help with both study skills and specific course content, since students experiencing academic difficulty in a specific course may request tutoring aid, not realizing that their…

Suggests four directions in which college reading programs must go if they are to preserve themselves. (JM)

Typical students in a college remedial reading program have self-concept problems springing from several sources, including peers, teachers, and parents, that can hinder their chances for success. Teachers can set up circumstances in which students feel some of the emotions that confident people feel. Weekly sheets for the planning of goals and…