The suggestions in this document are designed to help teachers do a better job of teaching reading. They include suggestions for setting up specific lesson objectives, teaching skills in a developmental sequence, developing lessons within a term- or year-long comprehensive plan of reading goals, conducting ongoing evaluation of pupils' skill…

The Thackray Reading Readiness Profiles are the first original British reading readiness tests to be published and are the outcome of ten years of research in the field of reading readiness with British children. The profiles consist of three group measures and one individual measure, including vocabulary and concept development, auditory…

The 11 progressive steps outlined in this document incorporate tactile, auditory, and visual exercises which take approximately two months to complete. These steps range from the simple task of having the children arrange three magazine pictures in sequential order and explain the arrangement, through reading a story segment to the children who…

This booklet is designed to provide some starter ideas for teachers to use in developing their own packet of learning materials. The procedures suggested and the examples included are literally starters. "Introduction to Survival Learning Materials" presents some procedures to help teachers get started in developing materials. "Following…

This guide reflects the definition of reading as a complex intellectual act involving a variety of behaviors to decode and comprehend printed symbols and is intended to help the teacher be aware of all the skills within each dimension of the reading act. The reading skills are described in terms of learner behavior and a criterion reference is…

The education television programs presented in this manual are designed to acquaint viewers and readers with the variety of reading methods and approaches which are receiving wide attention today. The series consists of 15 one-half hour programs, each of which is designed to accomplish the following objectives: to explain the philosophy and…

This manual offers practical help for the nonprofessional volunteer tutor. Part 1, "Diagnostic Techniques for Tutors," allows the tutor to find out what problems interfere with the ability of a given child to read so that the tutor can plan activities which deal with each particular difficulty. Part 2, "Developing Learning Readiness Skills,"…

The 101 activities using the newspaper for teaching reading listed in this document range from such simple tasks as having children write captions for photos from the newspaper to the more advanced and complicated assignments of learning the use of propaganda devices or the five kinds of news stories. In addition, definitions for newspaper terms…

This book is concerned with the skill of learning to read and factors primarily related to teaching the beginning reading skills. The contents include: "Rationale," which discusses abilities related to reading, reading as a different medium, decoding coming before reading, decoding as separate from reading, hypotheses for decoding, and a…

This curriculum guide was written with the intention of providing continuity to the Wilmington, Massachusetts, reading program--grades kindergarten through twelve. The skills and suggestions presented are adaptable to all reading materials currently available in Wilmington. The skills are meant to be developed in grades kindergarten through third…

Based on the premise that reading teachers have a wealth of creative ideas about what to teach and how to teach it effectively, this book contains the most used and useful lists for classroom teachers gathered together in a desktop reference format. First published in 1984, this third edition of the book includes expanded versions of, and…

This pamphlet presents a medium which attempts to capitalize on the major strengths of all reading language approaches by incorporating the three basic teaching methods (auditory-visual-kinesthetic). The Picture-Vocabulary-Story (PVS) medium is designed to provide students with suitable experiences, knowledge of vocabulary, comprehension of what…

Intended for the use of the reading teacher and principal in the local school in setting up the program for the reading teacher in the school, this document presents guidelines for the current functioning of the program, describes the developing role of the reading teacher, and details steps that must be taken on a county level and building level…

The purpose of this instructional unit is to help secondary school students gain proficiency in phonetic analysis. The format of the unit provides the student with practice, testing, and retesting. It contains controlled vocabulary lists for each area and attempts to establish overlearning and automatic response to several of the high frequency…

Designed for kindergarten through grade three, the material in this volume of the "Curriculum Guide for the Language Arts" is organized by grades with provision for use in a continuous or nongraded organization. An introductory section outlines the general language arts program, noting specifically the characteristics of the primary child, the…