A number of issues related to the production of literacy materials for the Chicano children of New Mexico are discussed. First, a historical survey gives some idea of the way in which instructional materials available for use with Spanish-speaking children have contributed to cultural estrangement and alienation from their own particular home and…

A total of 85 first grade students and 12 classroom teachers participated in a study to determine the predictive efficiency of a number of variables for early identification of reading problems. The variables included teacher judgment and the auditory sequential memory and visual sequential memory subtests of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic…

This report offers the premise that a psychology of reading instruction has a set of questions of its own, questions that concern the ways in which the environmental interventions called instruction interact with cognitive processes to modify competence. The report discusses two streams of psychological research as they relate to reading…

This issue of a publication devoted to providing ideas and guidance for teachers of English as a second language includes the following articles and features: (1) "Toward Interactive Modes in Guided Composition," (2) "Computer Compatibility in the Classroom," (3) "Discourse Structure in Reading," (4) "Terminal Behavior and Language," (5) "Sector…

This manual, intended to assist teachers in identifying students with limited-English proficiency who may have special needs, concentrates on four areas: language, observation, testing, and learning problems. The main part of the manual has eight sections dealing with the following topics: (1) observation techniques and methods; (2) modifications…

Noting that educators have progressed considerably in the development of instructional and institutional strategies for nontraditional students, this paper provides a chart summarizing possible solutions to the various problems of such students in postsecondary education. Dealing with both affective and cognitive domains, the chart lists areas of…

This summary report describes the three-year Special Emphasis Project, a large federal program directed at preventing and correcting reading difficulties among elementary school children. Section one of the report provides a brief history of the project, with descriptions of its rationale, intent, major and specific provisions, and the controlled…

The reading improvement program developed at Westminster College (Fulton, Missouri) was designed with a whole language base, one that considered reading, writing, speaking, and listening as inseparable components of language. Specifically, it was designed to meet the needs of 27 freshman students who were determined to be academically capable but…

Prose-learning strategies are classified in this paper as prose-dependent (those that authors can use to optimize communication) or processor-dependent (those that learners can use to optimize reception) and are cross-classified as stage-setting (those that prepare the learner for upcoming prose information) or storage-retrieval oriented (those…

This reader, the fourth in a series of stories, is intended for use in a bilingual education setting and is geared toward students who are competent speakers of Gwich'in Athabaskan with a knowledge of the writing system. It consists of two stories about traditional life. A free English translation is appended. (AMH)

This reader is intended for use in a bilingual education setting and is geared toward students who are competent speakers of Tanaina Athabaskan with a knowledge of the writing system. The story is about a favorite Tanaina game and the way it used to be played. The text is in an interlinear translation format and is followed by a free English…

This is the first of a set of four books containing 24 examples of the Tanaina art of storytelling. They are intended for use in a bilingual education setting for competent speakers of Tanaina Athabaskan who have knowledge of the writing system. The six stories in this volume are part of a large group of traditional stories called…

This is the second of a set of four books containing 24 examples of the Tanaina art of storytelling. They are intended for use in a bilingual education setting for competent speakers of Tanaina Athabaskan who have knowledge of the writing system. The five stories in this volume are examples of a large number of raven stories told by the Tanaina…

This description of computer-based courseware for a beginning reading curriculum developed by the PLATO Elementary Reading Project indicates the philosophical approach to lesson development and describes the interactive capabilities of the system, as well as the types of visual displays, routines for data collection by teachers, and uses of the…

Perhaps the most controversial and provocative issue in the discussion of reading failure in inner-city schools has been the relationship between Black English Vernacular (BEV), reading failure, and reading instruction. The debate has focused on the degree to which BEV does or does not interfere with the acquisition of reading/language arts…