The ten chapters in this collection are intended to be a starting point for those interested in teaching children and adults to read more effectively. Each chapter treats an age, school level, or special population and provides three kinds of information: the current state of reading instruction for that group, what it should be, and…

This collection of papers deals with the slower learner in the Scottish secondary school. The first paper, "Language and Learning," presents ways of classifying slow learners and the classroom activities designed for them. The second paper, "The Teaching of Reading," discusses reading as a thinking process and offers teaching methods based upon…

This illustrated reader is intended for use in a bilingual education setting. It consists of four traditional stories in Koyukon Athabascan (Central Dialect). English translations are attached. (AMH)

This illustrated reader consists of a traditional adventure story and is intended for advanced students of Gwich'in Athapascan in a bilingual education setting. (NCR)

Up to the present, the Centre de Recherches et d'Applications Pedagogiques en Langues has approached the development of reading comprehension skills in English as a second language in terms of morpho-syntactic development. This article proposes to examine difficulties in reading comprehension based not on morpho-syntax but on the textual and…

The materials in this teaching guide represent the third quarter of a community college program designed to teach paraprofessionals how to tutor in an adult literacy program. Techniques for teaching reading and English as a second language are included. Lesson plans for five classes cover the informal reading inventory, review and practice in the…

The instructional concept guide is part of a system developed for tutor training and support. It is primarily designed for volunteers, but it can also be adapted to the training of paraprofessional tutors for any type of adult literacy program. A key component in the system is the Tutor Support Library, consisting of Instructional Concept Guides…

This guide was prepared for the ESL teacher to help bilingual students learn the English reading and writing skills necessary to acquire a summer job. These lessons are relevant to students' needs, an important factor in generating interest and motivation. General objectives are: to design a relevant ESL program for teenagers; to help monolingual…

This elementary reader is written in both English and Inupiat. To avoid interference in reading, it is designed so that the Inupiat text is never directly opposite the English equivalent. The reader contains several brief stories that deal with traditional Eskimo life and the first contacts of residents of the Kobuk valley with "modern"…

Three modes of instruction were compared in teaching two units in an undergraduate course on the teaching of elementary school reading. All of the 116 students received packets of learning materials related to the objectives of each unit. Students in the lecture groups used the packets as supplementary materials, those in independent study were…

Papers presented at the tenth annual study conference of the United Kingdom Reading Association, held at Totley-Thornbridge College of Education, Sheffield, are included in this report. The conference theme centered on the proposition that learning to read is a long-term developmental process beginning in preschool life and language experience and…

The document contains 48 Adult Basic Education (A.B.E.) instructional units, designed to help the A.B.E. learner read the newspaper with more facility and interest. The 48 units represent the newspaper's entire range of content. Specific reading skills, stressed in some units, are geared toward the student whose reading ability ranges from above…

"The Electric Company" was created by the Children's Television Workshop (CTW) as an experiment in using television to teach reading skills to children in grades 2-4 who were having difficulty learning to read in school. With more than 500 shows completed and four seasons behind it, the series continues to be an experiment. The methods…

An ESEA Title III project in language arts, this program emphasizes instruction tailored to the individual learner's needs. In the fall of 1974, Southside Elementary School, Crestview, Florida, adopted the program which is described and evaluated in this paper. Program components include team teaching in an open space classroom; the use of…

The purpose of this study was to analyze the scores of groups who were instructed by two individualized instructional methods on characteristics hypothesized as being related to the instructional treatments. The instructional treatments consisted of a prescriptive method based upon behavioristic theory and a personalized method based upon…