The child's process of learning to read was simulated by teaching adults to associate Chinese characters with spoken words. When the students chose words to be learned, learning was more rapid than when words were selected by the examiner from a basal reader. (Author/JA)

A thorough and efficient system of diagnostic reading instruction is really a process by which the teacher individualizes instruction in the classroom. (Author)

Recent computer-processed word lists are described, as well as several derivatives as supplements or replacements for the Dolch Sight Word Vocabulary. (Editor)

Discusses the basic precepts of the Reading Miscue Inventory as an evaluation of oral reading. (TO)

A report of the Title I, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, reading improvement project at the Chilocco Indian School (Oklahoma) is presented. (FF)

Instruction in the teaching of reading should more closely approximate the natural way children learn and reading instruction will meet with greater success. (Author/RB)

A reading program that stresses prevention rather than the cure of reading problems is the responsibility of both school and home. (RB)

Summarizes the most important implications coming from recent research into teaching behaviors in reading instruction, concluding that teachers whose behaviors are most characteristic of a specific approach are most effective. (RB)

Discusses the importance of speech skills as antecedents to learning word perception skills in beginning reading. (RB)

Presents information on documents in the ERIC system covering higher levels of comprehension in reading instruction. (RB)

Outlines assumptions about reading instruction and presents seven ways in which these assumptions are reflected in practice. (RB)

Suggests that current reading instruction and tests fail to teach or measure a student's ability to use reading to solve problems, apply ideas, detect an author's bias, evaluate personal biases, compare themselves with a literary character, or to synthesize a new idea. Suggests questions principals might consider in purchasing materials,…

See related article by Kenneth S. Goodman, CS 705 852. (RB)