Describes a reading program designed to help slow readers bridge the summer gap between the first and second grade. (RB)

Argues that extra encouragement stimulates a positive self-concept among students who encounter reading difficulties and describes one student's success. (RB)

Details the methods used in a program designed to counsel parents of poor readers, including suggestions for ways parents can help their children with reading and for teaching methods they might use. Recent research findings concerning the effectiveness of educational counseling for parents are also presented. (FL)

The state's role in reading instruction improvement in California is illustrated by the Miller-Unruh Reading Act of 1965 which aims to prevent and correct reading disabilities at the elementary school level and to provide funds and services for special reading instruction. It requires that the Stanford Reading Test be given in May each year to…

The Cleveland Reading Improvement Project attempts to provide specialized reading instruction for disadvantaged pupils in the primary grades. The project utilized the services of a reading consultant in each target school and serves children who have been identified by their classroom teachers and school principals as experiencing difficulty in…

This study compared the performance of three groups of reading disabled students: those who were tutored by supervised parents, those who were tutored by unsupervised parents, and those who were not tutored. The subjects were 159 first-, second-, and third-grade children who read at least one year below grade level. The parents who tutored their…

The Miller-Unruh Basic Reading Act of 1965 expresses the commitment of the California State Legislature to helping children in the primary grades learn to read successfully. Specific objectives of the Act are the prevention and correction of reading disabilities at the earliest possible time in the educational career of the pupil. The long-range…

Designed to give parents an overview of reading and some suggestions on how they can help their children, this guide has been used in parent classes and workshops throughout Illinois since 1976. The nine sections of the guide cover the following areas: a general definition of reading, some causes of reading difficulty, various techniques used in…

This report is an educational guide for parents of young children with reading problems. It explains the prereading skills, such as sitting quietly, paying attention, and listening, that must be mastered before a child can learn to read and then describes nine approaches used by public schools for teaching reading. The report offers practical ways…

An auditory perceptual training program for students, aged seven through nine, with auditory or reading problems, was evaluated. Although short-term auditory improvements were observed, there was no impact on reading achievement. (Author/MH)

To determine if auditory sequential memory (ASM) in young children can be improved through training and to discover the effects of such training on the reading scores of children with reading problems, a study was conducted involving 92 second and third graders. For purposes of this study, auditory sequential memory was defined as the ability to…

This study focused on whether a supplemental program in structural analysis would improve the reading proficiency of children identified as deficient in the syntax and inflections of their language. Sixty-nine second-grade children, whose psycholinguistic ages were determined by scores on a grammatic closure test, to be six months or more below…

The overall goal of the 1972-73 Title I Program in the Newark School District was to diagnose reading difficulties of and provide preventive, individualized, developmental, and/or remedial programs for children who had demonstrated extreme educational deficiencies. This evaluation attempts to measure the extent and effectiveness of various reading…