Can teachers see where the reading process is going wrong in the first years of school? Marie M. Clay designed procedures called Reading Recovery to help young children at risk of failure in reading. In the first year of an Ohio pilot study over two-thirds of the children reached average levels in reading and were successfully released from the…

The project evaluated here, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, operates in a framework which utilizes the services of a reading consultant in target schools. It serves children who have been identified by their classroom teachers and school principals as experiencing difficulty in mastering reading. It provides…

AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF READING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR USE IN READING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS WAS COMPILED FOR TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS IN WAYNE COUNTY SCHOOLS, DETROIT, MICHIGAN, TO MAKE THEM AWARE OF ALL THE READING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AVAILABLE AND TO ENABLE THEM TO EVALUATE THESE MATERIALS IN TERMS OF LOCAL NEED. THE MATERIALS…

In recognition of the critical relationship of inadequate reading skill in the syndrome of alienation and disenchantment concerning the school experience, the Cleveland schools have implemented the Diagnostic Reading Clinic program as an integral part of their Title I, 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, services. A total of 1,903 pupils…