This looseleaf booklet provides Pittsburgh Diocesan administrators and teachers a step-by-step guide to the nongraded program toward which most Diocesan schools have been working for the past 15 years. The guide embodies information on parent-teacher conferences, testing, grouping, and the program mechanics and philosophy. Mathematics and reading…

A series of programs in Claiborne County, Mississippi, designed to improve interpersonal relations and preschool and first-grade reading instruction was evaluated. Part of a plan designed to aid majority Negro rural isolated school districts, these programs consisted of (1) inservice training for teachers, (2) a preschool readiness program using…

This document describes the efforts of program administrators to implement an organic curriculum in a Boulder, Colorado, high school. The chief program administrator coordinated efforts to develop instructional materials and a curricular program in English, reading, and social studies based on the needs and experiences of local students. Organic…

In September 1970, Behavioral Research Laboratories of California (BRL) assumed jurisdiction over the entire curriculum at the Banneker School in Gary, Indiana. The elementary school resembles most well-maintained, well-supported surburban schools, with the one exception that the student body and most of the faculty are black. The program as…

This booklet is written for use in university and college courses on the teaching of reading in the elementary grades. It is also written to assist supervisors, teachers, teacher assistants, and student teachers in knowing what to teach in reading and in planning activities to help children learn to read to their maximum potential. Parents also…

A reading improvement program for student teachers was designed to help them to (1) understand the reading process, (2) secure fundamental reading skills, (3) read critically and comprehend aesthetic aspects of certain types of reading materials, (4) integrate and apply problem solving skills, and (5) understand the importance of vocabulary to…

In an effort to clarify and elaborate on the International Reading Association's recommendations for professional preparation of secondary reading teachers and secondary reading consultants, competency objectives are presented in performance-based behavioral terms for secondary reading teachers and consultants. The objectives are stated in an…

A review of the models of communication suggests that the most complex model, in which a hearer is constantly bombarded by stimuli and must form his own interpretation of them, is most adequate. In the schools communication is often impeded because a teacher does not fully explain his meaning to the students. Such is the case even in so elementary…

The Elementary Reading Centers located in 36 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, urban schools provide supplementary remedial reading instruction to pupils with low reading achievement and provide reading resource teachers to assist and train classroom teachers. Reading teachers emphasize comprehension, vocabulary development, word recognition, study skills,…

The elementary school in Pojoaque, New Mexico, has recently developed a remedial reading program for children in grades 2 to 4. Eighty-three children participated in 1969-70. As the population of the area is 76 percent Spanish-American, 12 percent Indian, 12 percent white, and less than 1 percent black, work in the program focuses on language and…

As part of an effort to help coordinate information flow (and thus, future research activities), this fourth Inventory of Projects and Activities in Reading and English continues to report (1) action programs seeking to exploit advances in linguistic science and related fields, (2) projects seeking to explore ways of handling the special language…

In 1965 the Miller-Unruh Act enabled the Bureau of Elementary and Secondary Education to provide inservice conferences and workshops for specialist teachers to aid in the prevention and correction of reading difficulties for pupils in grades 1, 2, and 3, and to move toward getting the specialist "out of the remedial room and into the…

Three types of programs were operative in the Atlanta public elementary schools, the first of which was funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act. This type of program entailed the hiring of the following staff: (1) lead teachers, who performed varied duties in relation to improving the reading instructional program; (2)…

This book of readings accompanies the "Handbook for Teachers of Reading in Adult Basic Education"; each part is meant to supplement each chapter in the handbook. Articles are grouped into the following categories: (1) an overview of adult literacy training; (2) social and psychological bases of adult basic education; (3) basic reading…

This book suggests procedures not only for teaching the fundamental processes in reading but also for teaching reading in high school subject areas. Four chapters present methods for teaching vocabulary, comprehension, rate, and problem solving. Nine chapters are devoted to practical classroom methods for teaching mathematics, science, industrial…