Article outlined steps designed to help the teacher arrive at a more realistic indication of the ability of each student to handle basic instructional materials. (Author/RK)

Article provides a sequence of reading skills for use by teachers so they can quickly determine the most appropriate skill level to begin instruction. (Author/RK)

Maintains that linguists and educators sincerely interested in black education should concentrate on devising a performance instrument to measure the degree of command of the style of any given Black English speaker rather than on establishing linguistic remediation programs to correct a non-existent remediation. (Author)

Early readers came from higher socio-economic levels and smaller families, their mothers had more education, they spent more time in sedentary activities, and they received a variety of kinds of help. (Authors)

A discussion of inadequately trained reading teachers in today's high schools and a plea for the upgrading of them in the future by inservice training and better preservice training in college. (MM)