Maintains that traditional summer reading assignments discourage students' pleasurable responses to reading; based on a paper presented at annual convention of National Council of Teachers of English (59th, Washington, D.C., November 29, 1969). (RD)

THIS REPORT ON THE DEVELOPMENT, IMPLEMENTATION, AND EVALUATION OF AN INDIVIDUALIZED READING PROGRAM AT NORTHAMPTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR 1966 TO 1967, PART OF THE BOSTON-NORTHAMPTON COMPREHENSIVE LANGUAGE ARTS PROGRAM, A TITLE III ESEA PROJECT, PROVIDES A GUIDE FOR ESTABLISHING AN INDIVIDUALIZED READING PROGRAM IN THE CLASSROOM.…

Presents 21 student comments on the the one-semester individualized reading course in the Iowa, City, Iowa, public schools. (SW)

Reading professional literature may be undertaken without a large investment of time or money, yet it still provides a way to increase one's professional knowledge and maintain competencies. To be successful in one's reading, the adult education practitioner needs to consider three aspects of a professional reading program: finding the time,…

An approach to learning called "English in Every Classroom" and based on the concepts of saturation and diffusion is presented in a book that proposes to surround the student with newspapers, magazines, and paperbound books until he comes to perceive them as a pleasureable means to a necessary end and to relate school to the world outside. The…

This anniversary edition of "Hooked on Books" adds new materials about the general educational context necessary for the success of the approach described in earlier editions. Discussions center on the difficulties of reading instruction, caused by the decreasing importance of reading in a television era; growth in the importance of peer teaching…

The individualized reading approach is a means of teaching reading to middle school students using self-selection of books by students, individual teacher-student conferences, and grouping according to needs and interests. During the teacher-student conferences, the students share their feelings about the book they are reading as the teacher…

The criteria used to compare the effectiveness of the individualized and basal reader approaches in this study were based on vocabulary, comprehension, and attitude toward reading as well as the number, type, and difficulty of books voluntarily read during second grade. Near the end of kindergarten, children in three schools were randomly assigned…

The studies reported in this document reflect the interests and concerns of reading and language arts teachers. Topics of the 10 studies were: a comparison of basal and individualized reading approaches to vocabulary acquisition of fourth graders, a comparison of a formal reading program and an informal general readiness program in kindergarten,…

This book, which is intended as a source book for classroom teachers and reading clinicians, focuses on: (1) recommended guidelines and patterns for teaching reading skills based upon the findings of current research in teaching and learning; (2) descriptions and evaluations of new approaches and materials for reading instruction; (3) descriptions…

Cites advantages of a Directed Individualized Reading program, including ways such a program can shape the reading curriculum to meet students' needs and interests. Discusses how educators can help students select the best books, can establish and evaluate the program, and can get students to carry reading beyond the classroom. (FL)