Describes an inservice teacher education workshop using local history for reading instruction. (RB)

The study was designed to determine the effectiveness of a teacher education program using empirical measures to detect changes in tutees' attitude toward reading, selected personality factors, and reading achievement during the tutoring period. (Author)

Presents the results of a Title I program serving severely deprived children who have been identified as having reading difficulties. (RB)

Presents examples of classroom activities designed to improve reading through improved vocabulary. (RB)

Presents research on reading attitudes in children along with a readiness checklist for use by teachers. (RB)

Discusses a technique teachers may use to overcome student apathy toward Reading. (RB)

Stressing the communicative aspects of oral reading, the author suggests ways to make oral interpretation more than a gauge of word perception. (MM)

Discusses building language understandings through the multiple channels of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic, with special emphasis on the use of syntactic blocks. (GB)

Describes a program designed by Warren Schloat Productions, Inc., of Prentice-Hall, Inc. (EA)

How a group of second graders used techniques from Sesame Street'' in developing phonics materials. (SP)