This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," is designed to minimize the rigidities of the typical basal, three-group plan for teaching primary-level reading. The program serves over 4600 students in grades one through three throughout the Seattle School District. The students come from both inner-city and residential areas…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves an unselected cross section fo 793 students in K-6. The program is designed to provide classroom teachers with information about the needs and progress of each student in order to enable teachers to diagnose reading problems and prescribe activities to correct them. The…

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the Distar Reading and Language Program as a method for beginning reading instruction. The subjects in the Distar group were 24 prekindergarteners, 60 kindergarteners, and 68 first graders. There were 24 children in the control prekindergarten group, 61 in the kindergarten, and 72 in…

This paper discusses peer teaching as one method of coping with larger classrooms, as a means for cultural and linguistic improvement in bilingual classes, and as a means for improving the use of a language experience approach to teaching reading. The paper stresses that (1) peer teaching requires careful organization and planning based on…

This reader was designed for use in the Foreign Service Institute's basic course in Dari (Kabuli or Afghan Persian). It consists of sample newspaper articles in Dari, each followed by an English-Dari vocabulary list. (PMP)

This issue of "Reading in Virginia" is intended to provide educators with information on topics related to reading instruction. The contents include: "Look, Move, Read," which discusses a reading and perceptual motor efficiency program designed to correct reading difficulties; "Teaching Reading in Virginia: Some…

This pamphlet outlines various activities and decisions implemented by the Maryland State Reading Plan. "Maryland's Reading Groups" discusses the four groups formed to focus on the general field of reading and its improvement. "The State Reading Plan" looks at the seven goals of the plan, objectives adopted for helping students…

A framework for more apt and sensitive evaluation of generalized word attack skill--the heart of oral reading skill--is presented. The paper envisions the design and development of oral reading instruction as bounded by a fully-specified evaluation scheme. (Author)

This paper argues that graduate schools should offer specific courses for future college reading specialists, as their problems and responsibilities differ from those of reading specialists in primary and secondary schools. As college reading is in need of more theoretical underpinnings, its practitioners need not only the facility for explaining…

Reading as thinking, the key to reading maturity, flexibility, and efficiency, is dependent upon the reader's purposes and his repertory of reading skills. Instruction should begin with the teacher's evaluation of the reader's functioning skill level, his psychological characteristics, and the nature and quality of his stored information. Skillful…

At the present time more than 600 publications concerned with individualized reading are available. The 84 items listed in this bibliography were selected to help the reader obtain varied points of view without reading 600 articles. The selected studies are arranged in four categories to include (1) carefully considered arguments for and against…

A series of instruments designed by the Connecticut Association for Reading Research is offered to help a school staff improve reading education by identifying school practices that need improvement. Checklist questionnaires are provided for the following sections: (1) systemwide background information, (2) individual school background…

The scope, rationale, staff, and instructional methods of the University of California at Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.) reading program are described. U.C.L.A. students come mainly from the upper level of high-school graduates and in college may have very demanding work loads. Consequently, the reading and study center has based its policies on student…

Criteria applicable to all reading programs (and particularly to reading programs for Mexican-American children), regardless of philosophical or methodological differences among the various programs, are delineated. These criteria are listed and discussed in the form of the following nine questions: Has a good learning environment been…

A study using four groups, each of 25 first graders, indicated that letter-naming ability does not facilitate learning to read words composed of the same letters. One group was taught to discriminate between four artificial graphemes by identifying them with different geometric forms. The second group was taught to give the graphemes the letter…