The purpose of this booklet is to provide a definition of phonological and morphological principles governing the English spelling system. Included in the discussion are an exhaustive list of sound-to-spelling correspondences, lists of common prefixes and suffixes, and rules for combining affixes with base morphemes. Charts provided outline…

This selective bibliography is one of nine documents compiled to provide titles and descriptions of useful and informative reading documents which were indexed into the ERIC system from 1966 to 1974. The 94 entries in this section of the bibliography concern reading in the content area and are arranged alphabetically by author in one of the…

This guide offers suggestions for an all-school reading program focusing on four areas of instruction: a diagnostic-prescriptive instructional reading program, a content area instructional reading program, a recreational-leisure reading program, and an efficiency-study skills reading program. Techniques for diagnostic-prescriptive reading include…

A developmental model of literacy based on language and cognitive skills is presented in this paper. Two independent learning strands suggested as major factors in achieving literacy are learning to understand language by eye (reading) as skillfully as one can understand language by ear (auding) and learning to use the printed medium for literacy…

A study was made of nine reading tests, including both group and individually-administered measures, which are claimed to be chiefly diagnostic. Instruments analyzed were the following: Silent Reading Diagnostic Tests (Bond, Balow, and Hoyt), Botel Reading Inventory, Durrell Analysis of Reading Difficulty, Gates-McKillop Reading Diagnostic Tests,…

Upward Bound was a precollege program geared for high school students with potential who had been handicapped by economic, cultural, and educational deprivation. It involved a full-time summer program and follow-up programs (counseling, cultural activities, and physical education) during the academic year. Students stayed in the program for three…

English teachers must teach the reading skills which high school students need to handle informational reading matter and the more thoughtful magazines on the market, as well as the materials every adult encounters on the job or in pursuing a hobby. They must concern themselves with teaching students to read nonfiction prose for the following…

This yearbook contains the papers presented at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the North Central Reading Association. The titles and authors of the papers included are: "Speed Reading vs. Effective Developmental Reading" by Lester Van Gilder; "Counseling and Reading, Their Interrelationship" by Boyd Jackson; "Recent Research in College and Adult…

This volume contains the sixteen papers presented to the 1968, 1969, and 1970 annual meetings of the North Central Reading Association. The papers are grouped into four sections: Programs and Centers, Materials and Techniques, Evaluation, and Professional Problems. Some of the topics concern tests and test-taking, attitudinal factors, descriptions…

The purpose of this exploration was to develop an operational guide to assist secondary teachers in adapting language experience techniques in their classrooms. After language experience techniques were reviewed and identified, they were compiled into a guide which was used in two classrooms. Inservice training of teachers evolved from this guide…

A Multimedia Learning Laboratory Program was developed at a post-secondary vocational campus to: (1) provide help in reading, math, and study skills for students with inadequate educational backgrounds, (2) provide a means by which students may enter a program at times other than the start of the school year, (3) facilitate articulation of…

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…

The second edition of this annotated bibliography on linguistics, psycholinguistics, and the teaching of reading contains 40 percent more publications than the earlier edition, which covered works through 1967. The citations include a full range of points of view, topics, and authors' special fields and ask the readers to read a number of the…

The procedures used to develop a list of concepts taught in fourth-grade language arts are described. Thirty concepts from the list were randomly sampled and then analyzed. Analysis consisted of listing examples and non-examples, relevant and irrelevant attributes, subordinates and supraordinates, and a definition and principle for each concept.…