A study conducted in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, elementary schools, the first schools to adopt the Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.) approach to teaching basic reading in this country, revealed that children who started with i.t.a. had significantly less reading failure than children with traditional orthography (T.O.) training. Although the i.t.a.…

Article introduces ways to improve reading at upper school levels and provides suggestions for avoiding the turmoil that reading has undergone in the past. (RK)

This book is a collection of materials, activities, and suggestions for the teaching of beginning and developmental reading. Chapter 1, "The Problem," discusses the importance of early identification of children with possible reading problems, the reading program, and remedial teaching. Chapter 2, "A Selection of Reading Games and Activities,"…

These two booklets cover research in reading from 1968 through 1971. The first half of the first booklet covers the years 1968-1970 and includes summaries of general trends in reading, surveys, and research on specific dyslexia, the initial teaching alphabet and the beginning stages of learning to read, and linguistics and reading. The second…

This bulletin summarizes and interprets some of the main findings of "Survey of the Literature on Methods and Materials in Reading," by Martha J. Maxwell and George Temp, Chapter IV of "The Information Base for Reading: A Critical Review of the Information Base for Current Assumptions Regarding the Status of Instruction and Achievement in Reading…