Discusses an approach to early reading instruction that emphasizes "real" books and parental involvement. Contains a list of "dos" and "don'ts" for use by parents in helping their children read. (DF)

This reaction paper stresses the importance of matching the qualitatively different types of educational decisions with appropriate types of tests. Reading instruction is used to illustrate that while standardized tests are helpful for student classification and program accountability, they are hazardous to instructional process decisions which…

Describes the development and implementation of a reading program based on the desire to put theory into practice. Details the use of materials, diagnostic procedures, and daily schedules and concludes that individualized meaning-based program provides positive changes in teaching and learning behavior. (FL)

Presents a case study of an eighth-grade girl who received one year of nontraditional remedial reading instruction in which she was treated more like a good reader than a disabled one. Reports that the program produced a moderate improvement in reading ability. (FL)

Early reading for deaf and hearing-impaired children using the natural reading method inspired by Doman is advocated. The Doman method is described. What educational research on deaf and hearing-impaired children says concerning the process of reading acquisition is discussed. (RM)

Primary school teachers tended greatly to overestimate the scores that their students would achieve in mathematics and English achievement tests and to greatly underestimate the scores they would achieve in the reading achievement test. Factors that influenced teachers' judgments include academic competence, student relationship with the teacher,…

Argues that children need to be taught how to extract, synthesize, organize, and integrate important information from texts into their own knowledge structures and describes some techniques that can be used to activate prior knowledge. (HOD)

Advocates the use of science lessons as a basis for teaching young students to read. Offers the Language-Experience Approach (LEA) as a means of teaching beginning and remedial reading and of expanding science concepts and vocabulary. Describes an LEA unit on astronomy and reviews the benefits of this approach. (ML)

Discusses the Global Method of reading instruction, which is used worldwide and which is based upon the belief that reading is a part of a language-based process, incorporating all of the communication skills. Examines its similarities to LEA, as well as its differences, and explains its advantages as a content area reading technique. (FL)

Contributors suggest (1) ways for letting administrators know that teachers can be accountable for attending and participating in professional activities; (2) a schematic poster exercise for illustrating a newspaper index; and (3) titles of books helpful to teachers with limited English-speaking students. (HTH)

Argues that national policy has imposed on American public education four different standards of literacy, each one more demanding than the one preceding it--signature, recitation, comprehension, and application. Suggests, also, that each standard, which had its root cause in the nation's economy and social structure, was initially applied only to…

Presents a rationale for using the Conceptual Framework of Reading Interview and three kinds of information processing models. Offers a copy of the framework. (FL)

Describes the characteristics of effective reading programs and presents implications for the improvement of reading instruction. (HOD)

Reviews scientific and humanistic approaches to education and concludes that reading teachers need to be humanistic in approach with a scientific understanding and indoctrination to research and applied clinical methods. (FL)

Describes a program offered to preservice and inservice reading teachers as an alternative to reading methods classes that was structured to reconcile the demands of critical theorists for change with the actualities of classroom life. (FL)