This supplemental volume to the Persian instructional materials of the Defense Language Institute provides practice in writing and recognizing Persian letters and words. (JB)

This three-volume course is intended to provide a foundation in the grammar of classical Chinese on which the student who plans to specialize in classical studies can build, and to give the student of modern Chinese sufficient knowledge of literary Chinese for his purposes. It is assumed that the student can already pronounce Chinese words, use a…

This literature review is divided into two parts. The first part is a survey of materials in the William S. Gray Collection at the University of Chicago that deal with modes of learning. The studies reviewed range from the 1930s to the 1960s. The second part of the paper extends the review to studies published during the 1970s. Each section of the…

One of the programs included in "Effective Reading Programs...," this program's goals are to improve children's reading ability, to provide each child with an individually tailored instruction prescription based on diagnosed needs, and to involve the community in a democratic process of planning and helping. The program is operated in…

The Thackray Reading Readiness Profiles are the first original British reading readiness tests to be published and are the outcome of ten years of research in the field of reading readiness with British children. The profiles consist of three group measures and one individual measure, including vocabulary and concept development, auditory…

This booklet provides activities that are intended to aid the teacher in setting a new environment for the reluctant reader. "Providing Individualized Reading Experiences for the Reluctant Reader" defines the reluctant reader, discusses organization of activities, offers suggestions for using the activities, and discusses how the…

Based on recommendations of the Harvard Report on Reading, a 33-item instrument was sent to a small sample of school districts originally surveyed to see the amount of implementation a decade later. Because only a small sample was surveyed, the states are grouped into seven regions. Measures of implementation based on the percentage of…

This document contains a discussion of a sound reading program by Dr. J. Clair Morris; comments on the concept and teaching of reading by Vola Hancock; and reports from the exemplary schools visited by the Utah State Reading Advisory Council, including Lowell Elementary School, Webster Elementary School, East Elementary School, North Elementary…

The consultant function has great potential for creating positive and worthwhile changes in the reading program. The degree of success attained will be determined by the clarity with which the role is defined and responsibilities delineated, an understanding of the interrelationships between consultant responsibilities and those of other…

The nature of and problems with words of more than one syllable are discussed in this paper, and strategies for teaching and reading such words are suggested. It is postulated that the major problem in reading words of more than one syllable is stress and its effect on vowel pronunciation. It is also reasonable to assume that words become more…

Effective involvement in early reading instruction is predicated on the pupil's ability to scan, encode, and retrieve the appropriate visual/aural language information. This paper specifies these components for the purpose of providing input to a program that seeks to induce children to successfully and continuously participate in elementary-level…

A comparative study of first-grade reading instructional methods was undertaken with the support of the Granite School District Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction. This study was conducted in 19 schools of the district and involved approximately 1,295 students. Nine hypotheses concerning the various approaches used in reading instruction…

This study is a report on a series of exemplary and instructional reading programs conducted by the Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction and designed to improve reading instruction in kindergarten through grade 12. The following topics are included: (1) evaluation of beginning reading programs, including materials selection, materials…

The influence of linguistic research on the development of materials, procedures, and approaches to reading instruction is discussed. The words "reading" and "linguistics" are defined. The difference between the terms "linguistics" and "phonics" is clarified by showing that the goal of instruction--to break the code--is the same but the methods…

Thirteen articles previously published in "Elementary English" are reprinted in this monograph. The articles focus on a wide range of topics but are drawn together by their emphasis on the teaching of reading. The first group of articles concerns the organization and evaluation of reading instruction, the next group discusses the place of…