High school graduation requirements at the Delphian School are presented. The program consists of four levels. Level one is intended largely as review and remediation of previous schooling through the sixth grade. Levels two through four take the student through high school graduation. The requirements for each level are listed as well as course…

Compiled by elementary, middle, and secondary school teachers, this guide describes activities for developing students' skills in phonics and structural word analysis. For each activity, a purpose or objective is stated, required materials are listed, specific teaching procedures are outlined, and the intended grade level (kindergarten,…

This monograph is the second in a series of semiannual reports that focus on research related to reading in secondary schools. The first section contains two literature reviews dealing with study habits and study skills related to reading. The second section offers two reviews related to prereading anticipation activities, including the advance…

A LANGUAGE ARTS CURRICULUM GUIDE WAS DEVELOPED BY THE READING SCHOOL STAFF FOR THE MODEL DEVELOPMENTAL READING SCHOOL, A TITLE III ESEA PROJECT, SPONSORED BY THE PIEDMONT ASSOCIATION FOR SCHOOL STUDIES AND SERVICES, GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA. SINCE READING SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN THE COURSE OF DEVELOPING A WELL-ROUNDED LANGUAGE ARTS PROGRAM, THIS…

A unit for teaching dictionary skills through the compilation of a slang dictionary was written with the purpose of providing an inductive learning situation. The students are to begin by defining slang usage and bringing in slang words and definitions on cards. Small groups are to be formed to evaluate the definitions and make additions. In…

The main purpose of these two studies was to determine whether or not generating good comprehension questions while studying prose material was an effective study technique. In the first study there were two treatment groups to which the high school seniors participating in the study were randomly assigned: a questioning-with-training or a…

The word sort is a technique which capitalizes upon a child's natural feature analysis abilities. In a word sort the learner physically arranges words printed on small cards into groups. This technique can be used in many ways to help children draw conclusions about how words are related. There are two types of sorts: in "closed sorts"…

The purpose of this practicum was to develop, implement, and evaluate a system of behavior modification on a school-wide basis. The system developed was that of a token economy. Baseline data was gathered during the first three school months on behaviors identified as "avoidance." The system was implemented during the fourth school month and…

This publication is intended to do two things: reinforce reading skills essential to interpreting the exercises in the social studies, sciences, and mathematics sections of the test of General Educational Development (GED) and to provide students practice in interpreting passages written at a level of difficulty similar to the difficulty of the…

This study was initiated both to follow up an earlier investigation and to gather additional descriptive data regarding the relationship between the Prereading Skills Program and the Word Attack area of the "Wisconsin Design." Four Wisconsin schools participated. In this study, kindergarten students who had completed one year of…

This study looked at the problem of why reading study skills were not being used well as indicated by the research which was reviewed. One way to examine this problem was to find out where teachers believed selected reading study skills ought to be taught. In addition, this study investigated how important teachers believed each selected reading…

A six-week course titled "You Too Can Return to College" at the University of California at Davis is designed to assist adult women reentering college. Returning women were found to be lacking in confidence, had low self-expectations, and needed specialized counseling. The reassessment course is offered through the Extension Division of…

Techniques and procedures for teaching reading as a meaning-making, language-oriented process are the focus of this book. The underlying premise is that children are taught to read so that they have an important tool for developing and expanding concepts. In order to accomplish this aim, children must be exposed to the precision and ambiguities of…

This study investigated children's developmental differences in adopting a clustering strategy while studying items for later recall. The central focus was on developmental differences in the efficient use of study strategies, rather than clustering in recall per se. Twenty-four third- and fifth-graders and 12 college students were given a series…

The 21 Title II reading projects described in this report range from a team-teaching approach in intensive reading for first-grade pupils to a free-wheeling project in a high school where classes stop daily for a 30-minute "Read In." Many of the projects offer suggestions that may be helpful in the selection and evaluation of books and…