This paper first presents the rationale for an eclectic approach to remedial teaching and then considers a teacher training program designed to encourage eclecticism. The wide range of pupil characteristics, teacher attributes, and instructional approaches and the lack of any universal cure for reading problems necessitates an eclectic approach in…

Describes an individualized remedial reading program where students choose their own reading lessons within a framework structured by the teacher. (TO)

Describes an individualized multi-media remedial reading program incorporating performance contracting. (TO)

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)

Describes a program which uses learning centers and a task-completion approach to teach students with reading difficulties. (KS)

An evaluation of the reading laboratory clinic at the Sulzberger Junior High School, Philadelphia, is reported. On the basis of a group informal reading inventory (IRI) 120 from a total of 467 grade-7 students were assigned to the clinic. Pupils who scored below third-grade second-semester book level were considered eligible for the clinic…

Describes different approaches to teaching reading by the individualized method. (MKM)

In this program, designed to help remedial reading students in the English classroom, each student's reading skill needs will be diagnosed and the resultant data will be applied to methods of catering to individual needs within the class group. Students will be judged by what they produce to fulfill their individual needs. The document contains a…

Working in cooperation with reading specialists, English teachers designed a program to meet the needs of a class of seventh graders with reading disabilities. The reading specialist role was expanded from that of small consultant to include actual classroom instructor. The teaching of literature and reading skills was facilitated through the…

One of the twelve exemplary reading programs summarized in the Introduction to Right to Read's "Effective Reading Programs: Summaries of 222 Selected Programs" (CS001934), this program uses a variety of cross-referenced materials and small group instruction to develop students' reading skills, vocabulary, and reading comprehension.…

Describes a remedial reading program utilizing a systems approach in a learning laboratory. (MKM)

This fourth monograph in the PREP reading series, concerns the role of the reading specialist who gives specific and concentrated treatment to individual and groups of children. He works closely with the classroom teacher, either in one school or in several. Related documents in this kit are: (5-B) "References"; (5-C) "Diagnostic…

The effects of an extended, individualized reading program on vocabulary, comprehension, and total reading skills were investigated in a sample of 39 underachieving, black seventh-grade pupils. No significant differences were found between experimental groups and control groups on any of the measures of reading achievement, but the experimental,…