This booklet includes descriptions of more than 100 suggested activities and strategies for encouraging reluctant readers to read. The descriptions include such information as the materials needed, directions for the activity, comments, and the amount of time needed for the activity. Activities include writing antonyms, making persuasive speeches,…

Among the problems of using readability formulas in education are: reporting standardized scores as grade levels is often meaningless since in a single grade classroom there may be children reading two or three grades above or below grade placement; social mobility, busing policies, and changed patterns of living have increased the heterogeneity…

The purpose of this publication is to foster increased interest about innovations in the public schools in Oklahoma and to review some of the most interesting and meaningful innovations in the classroom and significant innovations in the teaching and learning process. Each of the 59 articles includes an introductory section that briefly explains…

A very brief description of what an English instructor in the junior college should teach also emphasized the training he needs. (BN)

Most schools recognize the need to conduct inservice training programs supervised by reading consultants in order to realize the potential of teachers during their preservice education. To be effective, an inservice training program for elementary reading teachers should first be viewed by the participants as an aid to improve the teaching of…

Effective instructional organization and sequences cannot be generated without analyzing and interpreting diagnostic information. Currently the teacher is required to provide the analysis and interpretation as well as the instruction. Class loads and time limitations preclude anything other than the cursory examination of data. In order to…

Since November 1966, the Research Committee of Ohio Council of the International Reading Association (IRA) has been working for Reading Certification in Ohio. By December 1967, contact was established with the State Department of Education through the Division of Teacher Education and Certification, and definite plans for recommendations for…

This monograph reviews discussions of the nature of syllables, in order to determine the usefulness of the syllable as a tool in teaching children to read and spell. The review found that the nature of the syllable remains controversial; there are at least four different definitions in the contemporary literature. The sharpest disagreements seem…

The purpose of this publication is to point out that reading comprehension questions frequently assess only literal comprehension, and to suggest kinds of questions that involve broader levels of comprehension. The publication first presents two reading passages; for each one it lists sample questions that involve only literal comprehension and…

The Inventory of Teacher Knowledge of Reading was administered to a sample of 60 freshmen, 60 juniors, and 60 seniors in elementary education at the University of Illinois. In addition, it was administered to 60 experienced teachers who had not attended the University of Illinois as undergraduates. An analysis of variance of the test scores was…

Prepared to guide the nonprofessional in helping another person learn to read, this book consists of systematic phonics for the remedial or beginning reader. Some of the pages in the book are addressed to the tutor and some to the learner. Introductory material includes descriptions of reading, the teacher, phonics, tools used in learning to read,…

This book lists more than 200 graduate reading programs in the United States and Canada. The programs are arranged alphabetically by states, and the programs within each state are arranged alphabetically by institution. Each listing gives the name and address of the person responsible for the reading program, the degrees offered by the institution…

Data gathered by the Educational Testing Service from 57,694 children in 264 schools were reanalyzed using the instructional group as the unit of analysis. Second-grade and sixth-grade children were tested in the fall and spring with the Metropolitan Achievement Test and either the Cooperative Primary Test or the Sequential Test of Educational…

The primary purpose of this study was to determine if training in syntactic structures would increase reading performance of junior high school students. A total of 46 students in a predominately white middle class suburban school district who were reading at least two years below grade placement were divided into two groups: 24 students were…

A questionnaire was designed to study the uses made of reading tests by classroom teachers in Indiana with at least one year of experience in their respective classrooms. Of the 185 questionnaires distributed by local reading councils, 51 questionnaires were returned. The teachers responding taught in grades one through seven. They reported using…