Problems which will fact reading teachers in the future are discussed, and innovative possibilities are described. The following conclusions are reached. Varying environments create greater differences in children than existed previously, making individualized instruction necessary. Technological progress has opened new fields to education which…

Basic questions from a layman's viewpoint about the teaching of reading and other related issues are discussed. The questionable effects of the mass media on parental attitudes toward and awareness of reading issues is pointed out, and the need for professional communication on these issues is emphasized. Topics such as methods of teaching…

This study covers a program of research on problems in the area of reading undertaken and supported by the U. S. Office of Education. Due to the effectiveness of the Convergence Technique in the planning and management of complex programs of bio-medical research, this project is undertaken to develop plans for the application of this technique in…

To investigate the effects of the Southwest Regional Laboratories (SWRL) Kindergarten Program on readiness for first grade as measured by the Metropolitan Readiness Test and the Gates-MacGinitie Readiness Skills Test was the purpose of this study. The subjects for the experiment were 52 kindergarten students who were randomly assigned either to a…

It is extremely difficult to accomplish important goals and objectives today without widespread public support. The superintendent with his staff resources must present reading programs to the public in a manner which convinces the community that the programs are a vital and essential element in the accomplishment of educational goals. The key to…

A pilot program, established at Griffin Creek School (Medford, Oregon) from September 1970 to June 1971, consisted of five Laubach-trained volunteer reading tutors, an experimental group of five fifth- and sixth-grade boys, and a control group of eighteen boys and girls in a regular classroom. The experimental boys, reading at a second- or…

Suggestions for enriching reading programs are divided into six categories in this booklet. Part 1, describing syllable work, recommends using syllable strips (rather than ordinary jigsaw puzzles), word groups, and student teams to work with unscrambling syllables. Part 2 suggests an activity for working with double consonant words, for example,…

Designed as a practical, field-oriented handbook for the middle school teacher, this book delineates the positive effects of the middle school upon the learner, the content teacher, and the reading teacher. Part one discusses the unique characteristics of middle schools and middle school pupils; part two focuses on the organizational problems of…

Recent years have seen a marked rise in the information available--in professional textbooks and in research reports--on secondary reading programs. This compilation has been developed to serve as a guide to some of the more useful older and newly developed texts and research. Fifty-three selected references have been collated in the guide and are…

The full texts of invitational addresses given at the 1965 International Reading Association (IRA) Convention in Detroit, Michigan, by six recipients of IRA citation awards are presented. Gates suggests steps IRA should take to revive and redirect reading research. McCallister discusses the implications of the changing and expanding vocabulary of…

Accountability can be applied to reading instruction by matching instructional intent to the results in terms of observable learner accomplishment. An approach to accountability, based on Bloom's concept of student mastery of subject matter, consists of six components which the student passes through in the reading instructional process: (1)…

The purposes of this paper are: (1) to illustrate the nature of the difficulty when disadvantaged black children are taught reading by conventional methods; (2) to show that the conflict points, specifically, the phonological conflict points, need not be a problem if they are simply disregarded; and (3) to argue that disadvantaged black children…

Objective data on the relative frequency of occurrence of the multifarious phoneme-grapheme correspondences of English, which the author dealt with in an earlier book, Relative Frequency of English Spellings, are applied to the learning of reading. The target audience includes the educator, the textbook author/publisher, and the classroom teacher.…

The conclusions of various studies on the use of paraprofessionals or teacher aides are presented. Although the studies produced little statistical data, logs and reports of numerous teachers and paraprofessionals were used as the basis for this paper. It is suggested that the role of the paraprofessional ultimately depends on his own background…

Adults from Kings County, Prince Edward Island, participated in a Basic Training for Skill Development Program, designed to improve their reading and computational skills. Test scores, obtained before and after instruction, were analyzed to evaluate the effect of the program on skill levels. Results showed that group gains in terms of grade level…