Eleven shortcomings of remedial reading programs are delaying the program; analyzing word identification skills; teaching phonic skills systematically; avoiding having students read; using controlled-vocabulary reading materials; disregarding student background knowledge; encouraging readers to sound out unfamiliar words; insisting upon accuracy…

Recommendations are made for building an effective corrective or remedial reading improvement program into the structure of the developmental reading program. An outline of suggestions concerning objectives and goals, personnel, physical facilities, pupil selection, materials, and instruction is given. Samples of interest inventories and…

Project Catch-Up is a reading and math laboratory project for kindergarten through sixth-grade students. It features highly qualified teachers and aides who teach in the morning only, in an attractive, well-equipped laboratory, using an eclectic approach. Staff members are free to use whatever techniques they choose and to purchase instructional…

Noting that the program is primarily a reading and verbal skills program for adult learners, this paper describes the Academic Remedial Training (ART) Program of the U.S. Navy. The first section of the paper discusses the historical background of the program. The second section describes the reading skills component and the verbal skills component…

The major purpose of this study was to ascertain the growth in reading skills, self-concepts, attitudes toward school, and social relationships of a selected group of senior high school remedial readers who had served as tutors in reading for junior high school remedial readers. The study lasted almost one school year. The tutors were volunteers…

The 1984-85 cost-effects study represents the third annual analysis of the components of Cleveland's Affirmative Reading Skills Plan, which offers three instructional strands--developmental (regular reading/language arts), support (additional enrichment, corrective or remedial), and compensatory (instruction for students having reading scores in…

The effect of Title I reading instruction was examined in a group of students as they progressed from grade two through grade six. The number of students who fell below the twenty-third percentile on a reading achievement test (the criterion for Title I participation) was tabulated for each year to determine the program's effectiveness both in…

The Growth in Academic Performance Project, the major component of the Cincinnati Public Schools' ECIA (Education Consolidation and Improvement Act) Chapter 1 Program, operated supplementary reading classes in 51 public and 26 nonpublic schools involving 4,891 elementary school students during 1984-85. The four objectives established for that…

Methods of assessing the reading needs of college students can be examined in relation to two broad categories of college reading programs: (1) the self-contained course or sequence of courses in reading and study skills, and (2) courses or programs in which instruction in reading and study skills is interwoven with supplementary instruction in a…

This newsletter describes the Reading Recovery program, developed in New Zealand to help low-achieving first-grade students "recover" 90 percent of average first-grade reading and writing skills after 12 to 18 weeks of intensive instruction. It is currently being implemented by school districts in the United States as well--statewide in…