A study was made of Formula Phonics Reading Chain Programs in six California elementary schools to determine whether these programs replicated, in both form and educational outcome, the model program. On-site visits were made to evaluate program components and teaching strategies. Student achievement data provided by the schools, the districts,…

The advantages of teaching beginning reading with the use of the Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.) and some of the questions which are raised pertaining to its use are discussed. The difficulties which many children experience in learning to read with traditional orthography (T.O.) are pointed out. These include the variety of patterns for any…

A result of a three-week reading institute at Northern Illinois University during the summer of 1974, this publication consists of papers focusing on various aspects of reading from a psycholinguistic perspective and strategy lessons to be used in the development of effective and efficient readers. The contents include five sections: "Moving to…

Describes encoding and decoding processes as related to the true code of sounds and sound groupings in words. (MD)

The Junior League/Vancouver School Board tutorial Program began in September 1973. A coordinator was hired to train and supervise community volunteers who would tutor children with reading difficulties using a synthetic phonic program with multisensory reinforcement. Forty children, seventy-seven tutors, and twenty-two schools have participated in…

BASED ON "COLD DATA," SOME CONCLUSIONS ABOUT THE PROBLEMS OF TEACHING READING TO SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN ARE LISTED AND BRIEFLY DISCUSSED. AMONG THEM ARE THE FOLLOWING--(1) MOST OF THESE CHILDREN ARE RETARDED READERS, BUT THEY LEARN TO READ IN SPITE OF, AND PRIOR TO THE SOLUTION OF, THEIR PSYCHOSOCIAL PROBLEMS, (2) WORD ATTACK SKILLS…

SOME OF THE IMPLICATIONS OF CHALL'S "LEARNING TO READ, THE GREAT DEBATE" FOR TEACHING PERCEPTUALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN TO READ ARE DISCUSSED. CHALL CONTRASTED THE WHOLE-WORD APPROACH WITH THE CODE-EMPHASIS APPROACH IN WHICH A CHILD BREAKS THE CODE THROUGH LETTER-SOUND ASSOCIATIONS. IT HAS BEEN OBSERVED THAT CHILDREN FIND MORE DIFFICULTY…

Part 1 describes a followup study of the effects of three types of beginning reading programs on reading achievement of second graders predicted by pretests as likely to have difficulty learning to read. Forty first-grade classrooms participated, 10 classes for each treatment. All treatment A classes received instruction using the basal program.…