Asking questions that invite students to access advanced thinking skills during classroom discourse is a key strategy for challenging and supporting high-ability middle school readers. This critical teaching practice requires careful teacher listening. However, empirical research around teachers' "listening orientations," or how teachers…

An elementary school principal refutes each reason," concluding that this is a better way to teach reading." (Author/SP)

Accountability can be applied to reading instruction by matching instructional intent to the results in terms of observable learner accomplishment. An approach to accountability, based on Bloom's concept of student mastery of subject matter, consists of six components which the student passes through in the reading instructional process: (1)…

Discusses how a teacher can incorporate several modern approaches to reading into a basal approach school reading program. (GB)

Describes a reading program designed as workshop sessions, using multi-level commercial and teacher- made materials, and emphasizing the positive accomplishments of the student. (TO)

Many individual activities are suggested to help children share books they have read. (JH)

The program outlined in this booklet is designed to provide a learning situation for each child which is free of peer and classroom pressure and in which the undivided attention of an adult is available during the learning activities. The main purpose of the program at the primary level is practice and mastery of skills introduced and taught by…

This study was conducted to determine the effects of individualized reading as a literature teaching method in the secondary school. Seniors in two high schools were divided evenly into three groups, each group having 65 students representing four levels of ability to interpret literary materials. The experimental group was assigned to two…

The development and field testing of inservice modules for teaching skills and processes inherent in an individualized reading program and proposed refinements of these modules on the basis of field test feedback were the focus of this study. The Miniteaching Unit contained seven segments, each composed of a videotape and a corresponding workbook…

Discusses a reading program in which the student learns to become the judge of his own progress. (RK)

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

This teaching unit describes an elective reading course for high school students incorporating the goals and methods of writing across the curriculum. Students choose the books they want to read and read in class at least two days each week, and write a brief journal entry at the end of the class period. Students also have the option of writing a…

Describes a new student-centered, activity-oriented, open classroom approach to reading instruction with individualized instruction and continuous progress in reading skills as its major emphases. (Author/DN)

Postsecondary institutions must continue to provide remedial and compensatory courses for those entering students whose deficient reading and writing skills preclude their academic success or survival. A keystone to academic survival and success is the reading/study skills course that takes into account learner characteristics in both the…

Individualized reading and mathematics programs in the United States and Canada were surveyed as a means of providing a report of successful programs for use by the Calgary, Alberta, schools. The report contains definitions of terms related to individualized programs, statements of rationale for individualized reading and mathematics programs,…