The practicum report documents the development of a mainstreamed reading program for exceptional children in grades 2-4, and describes its pilot testing with 22 second grade, 21 third grade, and 21 fourth grade students. The specific process and terminal goals of the practicum are presented. The reading program is explained to have included…

Project STAR (Elementary) in the Cleveland Public Schools is designed to improve reading and vocabulary skills for grades 4-6 by providing 2,700 selected students with daily 40-minute sessions in STAR Learning Centers in 42 elementary schools. Eight to twelve students at a time use an individualized, self-pacing audio approach to remedial reading…

Project STAR (Secondary) in the Cleveland Public Schools is designed to improve reading and vocabulary skills for grades 7-9 by training and providing teachers and teacher aides in STAR Learning Centers in 24 secondary schools. Eligible students work in the Learning Centers every day in an individualized, self-paced, audio approach to remedial…

In order to investigate characteristics of the implementation of objective-based approaches to reading instruction and to isolate problems in such implementations, a questionnaire was sent to over 100 schools that were implementing the Wisconsin Design for Reading Skill Development. Responses from 61 school districts were used to obtain…

Individually Guided Education (IGE) is a complex instructional system intended to enable the elementary school to provide an environment where students learn at a rate and in a manner appropriate to their learning styles. This desriptive study concerns the implementation of the Pre-Reading Skills Program (PRS) which was created to be compatible…

In order to bridge the gap between educational research and practice, a study was concluded to identify specific reading skills which posed particularly difficult problems for Mexican American first grade children, but apparently caused little difficulty for their Anglo counterparts. Seventeen words emerged as being particularly difficult for the…

This manual contains an overview of a diagnostic/prescriptive reading program designed to teach basic skills to children in grades one through six and to foster their enjoyment of literature. The elements of the program discussed include the following: individualized skills instruction in phonetic analysis, word recognition, comprehension,…

Intended to assist underachieving high school pupils in improving their reading and communication skills, the Secondary Developmental Reading Program in the Columbus, Ohio Public Schools, emphasized literacy survival skills and reached 809 pupils in grades 9 and 10 in 13 senior high schools during the 1986-87 school year. The program used…

The 1986-87 Compensatory Language Experiences and Reading Program (CLEAR) of the Columbus, Ohio Public Schools was implemented to provide assistance to selected underachieving pupils in grades one through eight so that they might attain more fully their potential for and improvement in language and reading skills. The program featured individual…