The Developmental Reading Program K-6, one phase of the Reading Curriculum, provides teachers and administrators with a comprehensive guide to sound educational practices related to the teaching of reading skills. It is based on classroom experimentation and study of research findings by Cincinnati teachers, principals, and supervisors who have…

This document reports the origins and development of the DISTAR system of instruction. DISTAR is a set of programed instructional materials for teaching reading, language, and arithmetic basic concepts and skills that children need for success in school. The report describes (1) the key ideas of the personnel involved in creating the system, (2)…

The reading laboratory has been developed to supplement intensive reading work for adult foreign students developing English-as-a-second-language skills at the American Language Institute. The laboratory is designed to suggest to students that there is a variety of reading tasks and a variety of reading strategies related to the tasks, to offer…

The staff of the Reading Project of the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh, having previously experimented with beginning reading programs, adapted commercially available materials for use in an individualized elementary school environment. Their activities culminated in The New Primary Grades Reading System…

AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS, ARTICLES, BIBLIOGRAPHIES, AND STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS COMPILED BY THE CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS FOR TEACHERS OF READING IS PRESENTED. THE MATERIALS ARE LISTED CHRONOLOGICALLY IN THREE GROUPS--PART 1, 1942-66, GENERAL REFERENCES REFLECTING THE THINKING OF LINGUISTS ABOUT LANGUAGE, ITS DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH…

The Reading Improvement Through Teacher Education (RITE) project provided in-service training in reading instruction to elementary school teachers, and helped principals and reading coordinators to organize their school reading programs. The project's intended mode of operation was fully implemented. RITE specialists provided service contacts to…

This volume suggests not only that the reading process is more complex than previously assumed but that, like so many other cognitive and linguistic skills, the richness and depth of the complexity increase the more closely it is examined. Each chapter focuses upon various aspects of the reading process and provides for possible innovations and…

Relationships between competencies specified for elementary education reading programs and selected factors contributing to teacher effectiveness were assessed in this study. Phase one assessed relationships among 12 factors of teacher effectiveness and 22 competencies developed by the State of Pennsylvania. Phase two studied relationships among…

This story about a girl named Molly is a preprimer designed for children in bilingual Inupiat-English programs in the Alaskan villages of Ambler, Kobuk, Kiana, Noorvik, Selawik, and Shungnak. It follows the first preprimer, "Denny." Each page of text is illustrated with a black-and-white drawing. The English equivalent is given at the…

This story about a boy named Denny is a preprimer designed for children in bilingual Inupiat-English programs in the Alaskan villages of Ambler, Kobuk, Kiana, Noorvik and Shungnak. Each page of text is illustrated with a black-and-white drawing. The English equivalent is given at the back and is not included in student copies of the book. (CFM)

This first grade elementary language text, designed for children in bilingual Inupiat-English programs in the Alaskan village of Barrow and several small villages near Barrow, contains one story. Each page of text is illustrated with a black-and-white drawing. The English equivalent is not given. (CFM)

This preprimer, designed for children in bilingual Inupiat-English programs in the Alaskan village of Barrow and several small villages near Barrow, is a story about a girl named Molly. It follows the first preprimer, "Denny." Each page of text is illustrated with a black-and-white drawing. The English equivalent is not given, but it may…

This first grade workbook is designed for children in bilingual Inupiat-English programs in the Alaskan villages of Ambler, Kiana, Kobuk, Noorvik, Selawik, and Shungnak. Each page has a particular number, a corresponding picture with an appropriate caption, and lines for the child to use in writing the number. (CFM)

A survey of research indicates that a high correlation exists between the attending behavior of beginning readers and their ability to learn to read. Level of attention can be associated with ability to ignore unrelated stimuli, interest in the reading material, perceptual problems, and the sex of the reader. It is suggested that sex differences…

The Parent-Child Reading System (PCRS), a way of organizing instructional materials for reading so that parents can become continuously involved in helping to improve their children's reading abilities, may be used in connection with family learning center (FLC) workshops, in schools, or in institutions maintaining contact with schools. This…