Offers a brief overview of shifting models in reading instruction. Presents the holistic model which guides instruction at the reading center of a midwestern state university. Illustrates the model with entries from a tutor's diary. (SR)

The Psychology of Reading Department and the Reading Clinic at Temple University provide a Diagnostic Division and a Laboratory School. They serve two main functions: training of graduate students in education and meeting the needs of children with reading problems through evaluation and remediation. (Author)

Reading clinics that are part of the service mission of a college or university evolved out of a medical model. Such clinics serve as research centers to investigate and study readers at risk, offer training facilities for undergraduate and/or graduate students who seek to gain expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of reading difficulties, and…

This paper discusses the concept of "study reading" as used at a learning disabilities clinic at the University of Southampton, England. Study reading is defined as attentive reading to learn and remember, as different from reading that is performed simply to follow a narrative or browsing for one's own, self-set purposes. Results…

Good readers tend to engage in conscious reading strategies that poor readers do not. Expert readers display the following strategic behaviors that novices do not: (1) studying text segments previously found difficult more extensively than easy segments; (2) spending more study time on difficult stories than on easy ones; (3) summarizing just the…

To collect information about the operational structure of reading clinics in New Jersey's universities and colleges was the purpose of the research reported in this paper. Chapter one presents the purpose of the study, the statement of the problem, a definition of terms, limitations of the study, and the significance of the study. Chapter two…

The articles in this publication focus on various concerns of college reading instructors. The topics of the twenty-four articles include (1) study strategies, (2) a fundamental skills initiative of the Navy, (3) special methods of teaching cursive handwriting to alleviate the writing problems of older beginners, (4) motivational techniques for…

Describes a study of reading skills improvement among 362 Morgan State University freshmen who were assigned to a corrective reading course after scoring below the tenth grade level on the McGraw-Hill Reading Test. Posttest scores showed significant improvement in reading skills. (PAA)

A total of 954 teachers in ten school districts near Eastern Michigan University (Ypsilanti) responded to a questionnaire concerning their needs for university-related assistance in reading instruction. The results revealed the following: (1) teachers were greatly concerned about reading instruction; (2) most teachers were able to recognize a high…

The proceedings of the eighth annual meeting of the College Reading Association consisted of the following papers: "President's Report" (M. J. Weiss); "What Constitutes a Minimal Program for Clinical Diagnosis of Reading Disabilities?" (G. L. Bond); "Problems in Establishing Developmental Reading Programs in Junior…