Students transitioning from middle school to high school face a range of academic and social challenges. Academic content is more diverse and challenging, and its delivery is increasingly text based, requiring competence in literacy and problem-solving skill areas. Students entering 9th grade often struggle to find an appropriate peer group and…

Reading instruction often does not focus on appealing to student interests, offering choice, or responding to the needs of advanced readers. In this experimental study, we examined the effects on achievement of an instructional approach involving choice, differentiated instruction, and extensive, supported, independent reading, with corresponding…

The study evaluates the efficacy of an intensive, reading intervention, a dropout prevention intervention, and an intensive, reading intervention plus dropout prevention on high school students' reading achievement and rates of dropout/school engagement. This paper focuses on the reading intervention and on reading outcomes. Data on the drop out…

Conditions under which children learn to read with comprehension are explored; it is argued that the environment of the school must be graded in accordance with the thinking level of children and individualized so that children have different paths available to achieve common understandings and skills. (Author/DS)

Describes a way in which a microcomputer can be used as a basis for individualized instruction in reading and word meaning. (FL)

The report presents evaluation data on a program to provide remedial reading instruction to eligible handicapped students in public and nonpublic schools. Students received individualized, diagnostic prescriptive instruction from a program remediation team consisting of a reading teacher and paraprofessional assistant, as well as from their…

Planned, individualized vocabulary instruction is an essential ingredient of developmental reading classes, and deserves special attention, since expanding word knowledge is the one area related to reading comprehension in which student progress can be directly observed and measured by the learner in daily or weekly increments. The two factors…

The reading programs described in this issue of "Kaleidoscope" provide examples of innovations being implemented in Massachusetts schools as part of the state's Right to Read effort. The forty program descriptions fall into three categories: those directly related to the Massachusetts Plan of Action for reading instruction, those…

Proposes that physical education teachers can integrate reading exercises into their classes through activities that (1) stimulate recreational reading, (2) reinforce vocabulary and comprehension skills, and (3) provide reading opportunities through alternative learning options. (FL)

THE IDENTIFICATION AND RECTIFICATION OF PERSONAL READING NEEDS THROUGH INDIVIDUALIZED READING PROCEDURES ARE DISCUSSED. THE SHIFT OF CORRECTIVE READING FROM GROUP TO INDIVIDUAL NEEDS IS URGED. REMEDIATION SHOULD BEGIN WITH TOPICS AGREEABLE AND ENJOYABLE TO THE LEARNER. THROUGH PUPIL CONFERENCES AND AN INFORMAL READING INVENTORY USING THIS TYPE OF…

One of the programs included in "Effective Reading Programs...," this program serves more than 1,800 children in grades 1-8. Begun in 1972, this program is designed to provide a strong foundation in reading. The teachers in the district defined by behavioral objectives those reading skills essential to decode and comprehend unfamiliar…

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.…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 350 seventh graders and 295 eighth graders from middle-income families. The seventh-grade component began in 1971; the eighth-grade component began in 1973. The results of diagnostic tests administered to all seventh graders are used to write individualized educational…

The project described in this document involves the implementation of an individualized reading program with sixth graders during the spring semesters of the 1970-71 school year and the 1971-72 school year. Behavioral objectives for the students were written in the areas of word recognition skills, vocabulary skills, comprehension skills, speed…

The articles contained in this volume were selected to support and strengthen the concept of individualized instruction through diagnostic teaching. The book is divided into six major parts, each of which is preceded by a brief overview that emphasizes the main tenets advanced by the authors of the individual articles. The six major divisions of…