The author discounts the effects of currently promoted speed reading programs as resulting in short-term effectiveness and disregarding a consideration of what constitutes good reading at any speed. He claims that the types and levels of transformations and interpretations, verbal and nonverbal, that must go into good reading are not susceptible…

Topics and practices related to college reading instruction are discussed. Reading is seen as a skill which permeates the entire process of study. Speed reading techniques such as increasing eye span, ceasing vocalizations, and reading vertically down the page are criticized as hampering rather than facilitating the comprehension process. The most…

Current research studies related to oral reading at the elementary level are abstracted and listed by author in Part I of this bibliography. Part II contains citations and brief annotations of documents published from 1900 to 1950. Entries deal with such aspects as improving oral reading ability, using oral reading as a diagnostic tool, and using…

Educators are challenged to assume as an educational goal for the decade of the 1970's the assurance that no one shall leave school without the skill and the desire to read to the full limits of his capacity. An appeal for a total national commitment to this goal is made to all educational institutions, legislative bodies, and civic and industrial…

This topical paper is fourth in a series prepared for reading specialists. Others in the series include: Number 18, Directions for Research and Innovation in Junior College Reading Programs; Number 20, Skill Development in Junior College Reading Programs; Number 21, Community College Reading Center Facilities; and Number 24, Training Faculty for…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 1-8. SUBJECT MATTER: Developmental reading. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into six chapters. It is offset printed and edition bound with a paper cover. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES: General objectives for the reading program are outlined in the first chapter. A list of specific skills to be…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 3-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Remedial reading. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into several straight-text chapters. It is offset printed and edition-bound with a paper cover. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES: General objectives for the program are outlined in the first chapter. Subsequent chapters present a plan…

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…

Various reference sources were examined in an attempt to delineate and analyze the historical development of the controversy regarding the use of phonics in teaching reading during the period from 1930 through 1964. Information was examined in 10-year spans, which indicates the number of articles written during those periods. The analysis…

This document presents helpful suggestions (tips) for tutors. Introductory material indicates the purposes and commitment involved in tutoring. Suggestions are categorized according to general, first session, later sessions, tutoring reading, and tutoring arithmetic. Several approaches to aid a tutor-study partner relationship are included. (MJM)

The more than one hundred approaches to initial reading instruction can be grouped under ten headings: basal reader, phonemics, phonemic reading, "linguistics," total language arts, language-experience, one-to-one sound symbol, individualized reading, early reading, and perceptual discrimination. Although the basal reader approach is used in more…

READINGS IN THE SANGO LANGUAGE OF THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC WERE PREPARED FOR USE OF PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS. THE TEXTS WERE PREPARED FROM TAPE RECORDINGS PLANNED FOR USE WITH THE ORIGINAL SET OF RECORDINGS, AND PUBLISHED IN A THREE-VOLUME SERIES. LINGUISTICALLY, THE READINGS REPRESENT THE WIDEST RANGE OF SPEAKERS IN AGE, SEX, SOPHISTICATION,…

THIS SECOND TEXT OF READINGS IN THE SANGO LANGUAGE OF THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC WERE PREPARED FOR THE USE OF PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS. THE TEXTS WERE PREPARED FROM TAPE RECORDINGS PLANNED FOR USE WITH THE ORIGINAL SET OF RECORDINGS, AND PUBLISHED IN A THREE-VOLUME SERIES. LINGUISTICALLY, THE READINGS REPRESENT THE WIDEST RANGE OF SPEAKERS IN AGE,…

THIS THIRD TEXT OF READINGS IN THE SANGO LANGUAGE OF THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC WERE PREPARED FOR THE USE OF PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS. THE TEXTS WERE PREPARED FROM TAPE RECORDINGS PLANNED FOR USE WITH THE ORIGINAL SET OF RECORDINGS, AND PUBLISHED IN A THREE-VOLUME SERIES. LINGUISTICALLY, THE READINGS REPRESENT THE WIDEST RANGE OF SPEAKERS IN AGE,…

The topic of discussion of this issue of the journal "Teaching English" is reading instruction in the secondary school. Articles include "Reading in the Primary School" (Alastair Hendry), "Patterns of Progress" (Fergus McBride), "Teaching Reading--Whose Business?" (James Maxwell), "A Reading Policy for the Secondary School" (Iain McGillivray),…