This publication contains two chapters of the final report of the Curriculum Committee published in 1970 as an evaluation of goals and curriculum of the comprehensive school in Finland. The comprehensive school aims at providing the children with material and stimuli that favor a positive personality development. The major domains of an integrated…

Effects of training in thinking aloud on the development of reading skills were examined for 64 sixth graders in 2 Finnish towns. Trainees adopted five of seven text processing strategies they were taught and were most responsive when the trainer modeled thinking aloud and guided students in the activity. (SLD)