This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves all 629 students in kindergarten through grade 6 in one elementary school. The program population includes disadvantaged, bilingual, physically handicapped, and mentally retarded students as well as gifted students. The curriculum is organized in a "Man and his…

The development of a strategy for increasing pupil performance in the Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) Beginning Reading Program (BRP) is described in the introductory section of this document. This strategy, or support system, is embodied in "The Instructional Improvement Kit," presented as an appendix to the document. The kit is designed for…

One of the twelve exemplary programs summarized in the Introduction to Right to Read's "Effective Reading Programs: Summaries of 222 Selected Programs" (CS001934), this program is designed for the elementary school children of Andover, Massachusetts. These children are from high-income families and usually perform well in school. The…

This memorandum is a complete list of reading materials adopted for use in California schools during the fall of 1969. The materials are divided by grade level and listed in the following five categories: fast, average, slow, culturally disadvantaged, and English as a second language; each category is subdivided into basic and supplementary…

This study investigated the difference in effectiveness in increasing first-grade reading achievement of a traditional reading program in which no words were taught and a program that began with formal reading instruction in preprimers and no reading readiness. The subjects were 137 pupils in six first-grade classes in a middle-class suburban…

Linguistics as it relates to teaching children is discussed under the headings (1) Linguistics and Language and (2) Reading and Linguistics. In the first part, many interesting facts about our language are pointed out, along with the manner and usefulness of presenting them to children. While linguists may seem to be communicating mainly among…

It is imperative for a successful program of technological development in urban education to understand the psycho-cultural system of the ghetto and to develop both software and hardware out of an understanding of this system, rather than to impose existing devices and techniques on it. In community-based "Learning Centers", all members of the…

The problem of this study was to determine if a significant difference existed between the mean achievement scores, on the Gates Primary Reading Tests, of two equated matched pairs of culturally deprived first grade children after the experimental group had used a programed approach to reading instruction and the control group had used…

Research on word recognition is listed in two sections: Part 1, 1950 to the present, and Part 2, 1900-1949. Citations in each section are alphabetized according to the author's last name and are followed by descriptive abstracts in Part 1 and by brief annotations in Part 2. In order to make this bibliography helpful to users with varying concepts…

Children's reading performances under directed and nondirected conditions were compared in the case of 300 fourth-grade suburban students. Subjects were divided into high, middle, and low achievement groups of 100 each, and each group was subdivided into experimental and control groups. The directed conditions experimental group read the questions…

Suggestions of potential uses for non-textbooks in classrooms are made according to the conviction that books should be a central portion of reading instruction. In readiness and initial reading instruction non-textbooks can be used to create a desire to read, to develop readiness skills, to develop reading skills associated with comprehension and…

The Right to Read Effort was established to help eliminate illiteracy in the United States. Major thrusts involve translating research and placing it in the hands of practitioners, the coordination of basic planning at the local school level, retraining existing personnel, and insisting on individualized and personalized reading instruction.…

This document consists of 11 brochures developed for the Right to Read program in Tennessee. Each brochure addresses a different topic. "Introduction" discusses the program's objectives and an effective developmental reading program; "A Positive Approach" looks at why many students fail to become efficient readers and discusses…

This handbook describes in detail the method by which a student enrolled in Reading Efficiency and Communication Training (REACT), a course for college students who have not acquired basic reading and study skills, may earn a grade. The grade is determined by the total number of points earned by a student during the quarter. Students may earn…

This document presents in outline form the roles, responsibilities, and qualifications of reading specialists as formulated by the Professional Standards and Ethics Committee and approved by the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association. The breakdown of roles, which are retained as outline headings in the sections on…