Describes the process of designing the i.t.a. for Century Schoolbook, Baskerville, Melior, Helvetica, and Optima typefaces with illustrations of the new alphabets. (MB)

Author advocates use of video tape recordings to identify and study successful teaching techniques. (SP)

The author suggests ways in which reading may be made more interesting to children by dramatization, illustration by the students, and publication of the students' work. (MM)

The author discusses some of the books which appeal to today's children and the various ways in which they can help them to learn. (MM)

Near illiterates were draft exempt until the Army discovered it could teach them to read and write well enough to be fit for the service with the multimedia system described in this article. (LS)

A program for teaching reading to first grade children is described. (CK)

Reviews selected recent literature on sequence in reading skill instruction, taking into account samples of opinion about sequence and research in five areas. Includes a pro-reaction and a con-reaction paper. Bibliography. (WB)

Presents a brief outline ofthe evolution of the basal reader and notes the predominant role it p plays in today's reading instruction. Comments on the impact reading research has had and is likely to have on the basal reading program in the future. Includes a pro-reaction and a con-reaction paper. Bibliography

Teacher found that using all-upper-case books helped poor readers. (RT)

A successful reading program may become a dream come true if a centralized school library with a qualified librarian is supplemental with first-class classroom libraries. (MF)

It was found that 1st graders could perform the cloze tasks, and cloze tests offered promise for use in evaluating the relationship of oral language performance to reading task performance. Cloze task tests were better predictors of end-of-year standard reading test scores than readiness and basal reader instruments. (Author/DB)

Explores the "reading problem"--why some children learn to read and some don't. Notes for a talk at the 50th Anniversary of Book Week (November 24, 1969). (Author/JB)