This reading handbook was developed by the Chula Vista City School District (California) to assist teachers in planning a balanced reading program and in selecting the most effective instructional material for pupils from those provided by the state and district. The contents include: "Introduction"; "Assessment Materials,"…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," is used by one of the affiliate groups of the National Affiliation for Literacy Advance (NALA), serving approximately 200 adults in Louisiana. The program used Laubach material, which combines a phonetic approach with symbol-sound association to teach functional illiterates how…

The purpose of this survey was to determine the effect of the Right to Read program on classroom practice during reading instruction and on elementary school teachers' expressed needs for graduate work in reading. A questionnaire was sent to teachers in the twenty-two Phase I Right to Read schools in Minnesota; it was also sent to teachers in…

The California Right to Read program is for schools interested in changing or revising their reading programs. Right to Read offers services and materials designed to guide schools through program planning. This approach is based on the philosophy that California Right to Read can most effectively serve a school by working with its staff to plan…

The interaction between the individual and his reading was analyzed according to four major points, and the contributions that reading can make to his total development were discussed. The first major point discussed was purpose for reading. It was pointed out that teachers need to help each pupil see the need for reading in terms of his own…

Learning principles can be of great value in modifying the behavior of school children. Too often a teacher's own shortcomings and inadequacies hinder him from being truly effective with his students. In general our educational system is based on negative contingencies rather than positive ones. Ways in which a teacher can be more effective in…

The major goals of this postdoctoral study were preparation in psycholinguistics, and training and experience in the field of reading, as well as a review and updating of competence in learning and child development. The first semester was spent at the Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.Y., working on a project designed to test the…

Project READ is an integrated program of textbooks, teaching aids, pre-service and in-service training programs for school administrators and teachers, and parent-community involvement programs. The Behavioral Research Laboratories/Sullivan materials used in the program blend a linguistic decoding approach with the programed learning format. This…

Rather than being viewed as a reading skill, comprehension is viewed as inferring the task of the writer or as discerning the ends and means of a discourse. Inferring the writer's task is to reason backwards from the product to the questions with which he may have started. Discerning ends and means is to view what is described, argued, or…

Linguistic research at phonological and higher levels is reviewed. At the phonological level controversy centers around the phenomena of linguistic development, including reading, spelling, and pronounceability, and is accompanied by suggestions of how to help a learner cope with these phenomena. At the higher levels of apparent and underlying…

The usefulness of teaching vowel generalizations was studied using three treatment groups, with two second-grade classes in each treatment. The study was considered a pilot investigation to provide direction rather than a definitive research study. In Treatment 1, the McKee Reading for Meaning program was followed, including the teaching of all…

This paper proposes a model of microcounseling training for increasing the ability of the reading instructor to be a facilitative interviewer when working with students. The microcounseling training model is based on five essential propositions: that it is possible to lessen the complexity of the counseling or interviewing process through focusing…

The bibliography of abstracts contained in this publication represents a retrospective collection of ERIC/CRIER (the former ERIC Clearinghouse responsible for materials on reading) and the total collection of ERIC/RCS (ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills) acquisitions, all of which were indexed and abstracted in "Research in…

The selected material from the Right-to-Read Institute consists of: (1) Goals of the Institute and Specific Objectives, (2) Alabama Working at Reading Excellence Program, (3) What is the Right to Read?, (4) Objectives, (5) Activities - Studies, (6) Inventory, (7) Recommendations, (8) Alabama Population Characteristics and (9) Sounds and Light for…

The purpose of this study was to describe a composite method of teaching first grade reading, based on children's own language and interests and utilizing basic principles sequentially developed in myriad speaking and writing activities. These activities were designed to afford opportunities for the exposure of the child to teacher-prepared,…