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Of 15 skills, generally considered pre-requisites for independence in recognizing and pronouncing written words, at least three skills were found to be false pre-requisites; four skills were identified as possibly necessary; and seven were associated with competency on the reading aloud task. (RB)

Brief discussion of readiness experiences including listening, asking questions, viewing interesting things, and writing about class experiences. (BRT)

Concludes that letter-sound learning, word recognition, and reading ability do not appear to be affected by letter-name instruction. (RB)

Concludes that it is possible to determine the strategies that beginning readers use for translating print into speech, and translation strategies are influenced significantly by the class instruction. (RB)

Argues that proponents of the sight method must reevaluate some of their advice to teachers in light of recent research. (RB)

Reviews documents in the ERIC system designed to aid secondary teachers in measuring the reading comprehension skills of high school students. (RB)

Stresses the important role played by school administrators in developing an effective individualized reading program and presents eight characteristics of such a program. (RB)

Concludes that a teacher is one who creates circumstances that will result in students' learning and is able to adapt to individual variations among students. (RB)

Reports on a survey examining the occurrence, definitions, and inferred meanings of technical vocabulary in the professional literature on decoding. (RB)

Discusses the problem many high school students have in concentrating on reading materials and suggests several ideas to solve the problem. (RB)

This textbook is the fourth volume in a series of readers. New words are defined and phrases to discuss with the teacher are included.