Reviews the literature in the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) on the effective reading programs as identified by the American Institute for Research (AIR). (RB)

Describes an inservice teacher education workshop using local history for reading instruction. (RB)

The purpose of this project was to provide trained, indigenous, paraprofessional instructors who deliver prescribed reading instruction in homes to those disadvantaged adults who would not or could not participate in other adult education programs. This report is divided into two major sections: program summary and Appalachian Adult Education…

This final report of Project READ--a program aimed at optimum development of communication skills for each learner through an intensive re-education of teacher personnel in diagnosis and prescription procedures--includes sections on statistical data, data for the United States Office of Education, staff development, extent of adoption, extent of…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves about 450 educationally disadvantaged children, aged from 3-5 years, and approximately 40 handicapped students, aged from 0-5 years. The overall goal of this project is to establish a partnership between school and parents for the purpose of educating preschool children.…

This project report describes pilot programs of the Ames Community School District for two school years, 1973-74 and 1974-75. The purposes of the pilot programs were to ascertain whether objectives were met, to consider the appropriateness of activities and materials, to determine the validity of the test measure, to assess the degree to which…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 1,286 black children, K-2, in six elementary schools. The three-year developmental program uses a systems approach to teaching reading. An organizational chart, the Informational Processing Model, developed by the staff over a period of four years, details the processes by…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 346 children in kindergarten through grade six. About 50 percent of the children are rural blacks, and about 50 percent are whites from the suburbs of a small city. To provide meaningful reading instruction that will enable the students to read at or above expected levels,…

One of the twelve exemplary programs summarized in the Introduction to Right to Read's "Effective Reading Programs: Summaries of 222 Selected Programs" (CS001934), this program serves first through fifth graders in four inner-city schools with an individualized reading program, emphasizing the decoding process in the primary grades, and…

The results of fieldwork in six diagnostic/prescriptive reading projects in school districts within and around Santa Monica, California, are summarized in this paper. The fieldwork was designed to examine the process of implementing diagnostic/prescriptive approach reading projects and was done as part of a large Rand study of innovative projects…

The Upper Cumberland Reading Project, funded under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, served 13 rural Tennessee counties located approximately equidistant from three major cities: Nashville, Chattanooga, and Knoxville. The project's instructional approach was built around the basal text because of its use in all of the…

This paper reports on the progress of the Reading Diagnostic Center at LLincoln University during the year 1972-73. The contents include: "Introduction," which reports on the total (public and nonpublic) students exposed to the center; "Objectives, Activities and Evaluation Plans," which presents the objectives, evaluation, and…

This document reports on Parkway Missouri School District's Right to Read Reading Clinic aimed at improving the reading abilities of elementary school students. The contents consist of objectives, staffing procedures, testing, diagnosis, diagnostic tests, screening tests, case report forms, remediation phases, case study, case report, counselor…

Presented in this report are the evaluative data gathered during the second year of the project concerning the extent to which overall and component objectives were reached. The project was designed to advance teacher skill in the diagnostic-prescriptive approach to reading instruction, to the eventual benefit of all the children in the schools.…

The Right-to-Read Program outlined in this document is an ungraded project for kindergarten through third grade, which utilizes individual diagnostic tests to place pupils at their instructional levels of reading and to prescribe plans of individualized instruction based on specific curriculum objectives. The document sketches the development of…