These proceedings are published primarily for the purpose of helping teachers to improve their reading instruction. The contents include "Official Program"; "I Wish Children Literature" by Lee Bennett Hopkins, which discusses the importance of providing children with good reading materials; "Black English and Reading" by Ronald W. Bruton, which examines dialect interference from both a structural and a functional standpoint and reaches conclusions based on current literature in education and linguistics; "A Strategy for Developing Fluency in Intermediate Vocabulary" by Loran Braught, which suggests some techniques for teaching vocabulary; "Individualizing Language through Creative Beginnings" by Raynelda B. White, which discusses the structure and initiation of an individualized language program for pre-first grade children; "Mathematics as a Language" by William J. Linville, which looks at the integration of language with mathematics; "The Poem as Play, Puzzle, Performance" by James S. Mullican, which discusses poetry in the secondary classroom; "S.C.O.O.P.--Learning Centers Encourage Reading for Living" by Marilyn Brummett and Caroline Cass, which discusses the use of learning centers to develop individualized instruction; and "To Kiss a Frog" by Helen Coe, which discusses the development of the total child. (WR)