Factors involved in learning to read are discussed. (CK)

A brief description of the educational television series called The Electric Company" which is designed to help teach basic reading skills to second-, third-, and fourth-grade youngsters." (Editor/AK)

A look at some of the research that was done to establish a basic teaching strategy for The Electric Company". (AK)

We can improve reading instruction by using the strengths any child brings to the reading task. (Author)

Describes the author's success in using a soft sell" approach to stimulate reluctant high school students' interest in reading. (JB)

Finding the readability level that challenges the child at his optimum level of instructional performance can help teachers provide for individual differences. (Author/RY)

An elementary school principal refutes each reason," concluding that this is a better way to teach reading." (Author/SP)

Every American citizen has the right to learn how to read well before graduating from school. (CK)

Lends support to the hypothesis that children from minority ethnic groups with a low socioeconomic status are likely to have more problems in auditory discrimination than children with only one of these background factors. (Author/DR)

Compares the effectiveness of programed instruction with traditional classroom teaching and concludes that the value of programed instruction lies in freeing the teacher for other tasks, thus enabliing him to reach more students. Includes a pro-reaction paper and a con-reaction paper. Bibliography and tables. (WB)