The "Epistle" is the publication forum of the professors of reading teacher educators, a special interest group of the International Reading Association. This issue contains three chapters: in "My Impressions of the New Doctorate in Reading," Wayne Otto reports on his views concerning aspirations, professional competence, research ability, and…

Some states licensing agencies are seeking to change the way in which all teachers are certified as a result of demands by state legislative bodies and citizens groups who say that they want greater returns from their tax dollars as demonstrated by increased pupil learning. There are several arguments against competency-based teacher education,…

Reading research over the past 50 years seems to have produced little useful information for classroom teachers. This does not imply that nothing of importance has been accomplished, but does indicate that communication barriers exist. One major impediment to progress is the lack of understanding by classroom teachers as to what research is all…

This booklet summarizes forty-two Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.)research reports, highlighting the major features of each study. With minor variation, usually resulting from an absence of complete information, each abstract indicates the number and type of students involved, their grade level, and how they were assigned to experimental or…

This study was designed to rank the first 100 words of the "Great Atlantic and Pacific Sight Word List" according to learnability. The differences in the learnability rankings of the words due to the sex of the subject and the relationship between the learnability and frequency rankings of the words were also examined. Subjects in the study were…

The teacher preparation program in secondary reading described in this paper identifies several components for which teachers in training may be held accountable. The components identified include: (1) the selection of material of appropriate interest, reading level, and instructional need in keeping with lesson prototypes; (2) knowing the scope…

This elementary language text, designed for children in a bilingual Koyuk-English program, contains one story about the daily life of a family in Koyuk, Alaska. The material is presented in alternating pages of Koyuk and the English translation, with many illustrations depicting events in the story. (LG)

This paper discusses affective strategies for teaching reading at the elementary school level. The contents include: "Use of Newspaper," which presents a chart of reading skills to be used by the teacher and provides such suggestions for developing interest in the newspaper as having a newspaper editor visit the classroom, role playing as…

This final report of Project READ--a program aimed at optimum development of communication skills for each learner through an intensive re-education of teacher personnel in diagnosis and prescription procedures--includes sections on statistical data, data for the United States Office of Education, staff development, extent of adoption, extent of…

This monograph reflects some of the current thinking about inservice teacher education, with a particular focus on the role of inservice education in improving reading instruction. Chapter one, an introduction to inservice education, attempts to deal with the problems involved in implementing inservice programs as well as to establish the need for…

Intended as an aid to the school administrator who is exploring the possibilities of preschool reading instruction, the first section of this guide discusses: when to begin preschool reading instruction, effects of traditional kindergarten experience on reading readiness and reading achievement, effects of perceptual motor programs on reading…

This study was designed (1) to contrast the performance of grade 2 children on the pronunciation of words which had been systematically taught through the basal reading program during grade 1, with words which had not been taught and were encountered at higher levels in that same basal reading program; and (2) to compare pupils' ability to…

Although the structured tutoring model was designed to cope with the unique learning characteristics of low achieving primary grade children who are considered high risks in terms of failure, structured tutoring can be used to teach most objectives not readily attained by students generally, at any grade level. The best tutors for primary grade…

In November of 1965, the Provincial Executive of the Manitoba Teachers' Society established a commission made up of principals, teachers, and university professors to study reading in the Manitoba schools, including (1) reading teaching, (2) reading ability of elementary and secondary school pupils, (3) results of research elsewhere, (4)…

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…