A well-educated teacher equipped with diverse reading materials is the best single answer to the reading problem. (Author)

It is the purpose of this article to report to media specialists in individual schools and media staff in supervisory positions and in library education on the contribution of Title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to the Right to Read Effort during the 1970-71 school year. (Author)

Describes an audiovisual teaching aid which matches stories and instructions with various types of visual material." (Author/AA)

Notes that some progress has been made in teaching the socially disadvantaged to read, defines the socially disadvantaged, lists the causes of reading retardation among disadvantaged children, and suggests actions to overcome present inadequacies. Includes a pro-reaction and a con-reaction paper. Bibliography. (WB)

Outlines five incernible trends in the teaching of reading that will become main currents in the seventies. (WY)

Looks at the concept of reading readiness from the points-of-view of the behaviorist and the humanists. (NH)

Stories that are provocative and interesting should be utilized in the classroom to teach children to acquire the ability to read. (CK)

The controversy over the effectiveness of various emphases in the teaching of reading--phonetic, look-say, decoding, electic-- is unlikely to end. This article, which analyzes reactions to an important 1967 book, provides a useful summary of the reading debate today. (Author)

Six pairs of moderately or severely handicapped adults were taught to identify sight words, with those words directly taught to one student serving as words indirectly presented to the other. Results of probes revealed that most of the adults learned incidentally presented words and maintained performance across sets of words. (Author/CL)

A parent of a first-grade student shares examples of her daughter's written compositions and makes a plea for teaching handwriting skills in the context of real communication (letters and stories) and not as a separate activity. (RH)

Assignment sheets that structure reading activities can be helpful in reading instruction for gifted children. The guides include activity suggestions before the reading (mostly vocabulary), during the reading (questions at the literal and inferential level), and after the reading (questions focusing on analysis, synthesis, and other higher mental…