Produced by the Department of Non-Formal Education of Thailand, this illustrated booklet supports the National Literacy and Quality of Rural Life Year Campaign. Written in poetry form and geared for neoliterates, this booklet cites the pros and cons of both small and large families without encouraging preference for either size family. (JJK)

Chapters of this book on diagnostic-prescriptive reading instruction examine such topics as defining reading, language and reading, reading comprehension, assessing student progress and needs, visual and auditory discrimination and perception, visual memory of words, decoding word symbols, primary reading, creating interest in reading, critical…