Concludes that individual professional textbooks on secondary reading do not necessarily reflect the extant information base or state-of-the-art in secondary reading. (GT)

Discusses the use of the Moon system, an English embossed reading method, with visually handicapped individuals. Reports advantages of the system, such as its roman character familiarity for those once able to see and the availability of Moon books and materials. Concludes that the Moon system is an important alternative to braille. (PHR)

Provides the administrator with guidelines for use in evaluating teachers' implementations of basal reader programs. (HOD)

Offers guidelines for establishing a remedial reading program that will be useful and innovative and will meet the exact instructional needs of those students who need prescriptive help for overcoming deficiencies in areas such as word attack, comprehension, and study skills. (HOD)

Suggests that the effects of teachers giving feedback to students during oral reading can be quite significant and that such feedback should be carefully analyzed for perceived meaning and purpose as well as for results. (TJ)

Examines ten important reading skills that are often lacking in college freshmen and that should be taught consistently. (TJ)

Examines four recent criticisms of the ideas of Kenneth Goodman on reading and on the use of oral reading for diagnostic purposes. (TJ)

Examines the relationship between three methods of testing students' phonics mastery. Questions existing ways of interpreting test results and suggests two alternatives. (FL)

Covers two major aspects of reading instruction for mildly mentally handicapped children in the regular classroom: a review of their reading characteristics and a presentation of questioning techniques useful for promoting their reading comprehension. (FL)

Acknowledges the influence of Arthur I. Gates, Marion Monroe, and Donald D. Durrell on the author's views about remedial reading. (DD)

Criticizes a study by Joseph Fusaro published in a previous issue of this journal (see EJ 171 388), saying that it was not based on a realistic expectation that certain knowledge ought to be present among the subjects, that the procedure was not logically consistent, and that aspects of universality were unjustifiably inferred. (TJ)

Describes the impact on the author of reading Harvey Cushing's "The Life of Sir William Osler," a biography of the leading American medical educator in the late nineteenth century, which stressed his reading interests. (DD)

Discusses the phonics v whole-word controversy in the teaching of reading and defends the use of the phonics approach for certain purposes. (DD)

Discusses practical strategies reading teachers may employ in dealing with state-mandated minimal reading requirements. Includes cautions and suggestions for dealing with test limitations. (TJ)

Discusses how patterned reading materials may be used in initial reading to help students use their semantic and syntactic knowledge to predict meaning. (DD)