Intended for reading instructors of kindergarten through grade 8 students, this book offers a comprehensive view of the skills needed for a student to become an effective, lifetime reader. Instead of presenting a method for teaching reading, it presents the skills common to most reading programs. Chapters in the first section discuss the history…

Designed for teachers, administrators, and supervisory personnel for use in planning, developing, and evaluating reading programs, this curriculum guide has been prepared to describe significant features of the classroom reading program for teaching reading from kindergarten through eighth grade. Following a general introduction are 9 sections…

College reading programs can be designed for limited departmental budgets and integrate reading, writing, speaking, and thinking within content areas. To teach reading successfully within content areas calls for careful coordination with the students' other academic courses. A description and evaluation of a program used at Douglass College is…

The purpose of the program described in this report was to improve reading and other basic skills of third- and sixth-grade children by providing a program in which sixth-grade children tutored third-grade children. Three classrooms of third-grade children and three classrooms of sixth-grade children were involved in this endeavor over a…

Presented by the Texas Education Agency, this guide describes 75 validated programs approved for replication by the Demonstration Programs for School Improvement (DPSI) statewide steering committee for 1981-83. Administered by the Division of Dissemination, the network enables public and private school educators to visit, study, and adopt proven…