These stories formed a series in the Greensboro, North Carolina, "News-Record" describing a school system's attempts to prevent reading failure. The themes of the articles include the following: the implementation of the Right to Read program in an elementary school; a diagnostic reading center which is an alternative, a supplement, and…

This paper discusses some of the issues in early reading instruction to be presented at Institute X. The issues discussed include sight word lists for beginning readers, choosing instructional methods in reading that complement individuals' learning styles, a pragmatic approach to teaching reading comprehension, literal reading comprehension, the…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 2,400 junior high school students from middle- and low-income families. The program provides, for remedial purposes, one hour per day for instruction in reading, in addition to a period for language arts. Students' skill deficiencies are diagnosed at the beginning of the…

Eight papers presented at the conference for elementary language arts and reading teachers at Indiana University are presented in this bulletin. The papers have been organized to parallel the order of their presentation: "Using Beginning Reading Materials to Individualize" by Theodore Clymer; "Oral Language Misuses" by Kenneth Goodman; "Diagnostic…

The purposes of this study were to determine which test instruments should be used to report instructional and independent reading levels to tutors or classroom teachers and what recommendations should be made concerning the materials to be used for teaching the child. The subjects were children from grades two through ten who had been identified…

The teacher of reading can be a diagnostician if the term "diagnostician" is defined appropriately and if the teacher has the knowledge, the facilities, and the skills necessary to make diagnostic teaching work. A diagnostic teacher needs a comprehensive acquaintance with the objectives of reading instruction. He or she should be familiar with the…

This paper reports on the progress of the Reading Diagnostic Center at LLincoln University during the year 1972-73. The contents include: "Introduction," which reports on the total (public and nonpublic) students exposed to the center; "Objectives, Activities and Evaluation Plans," which presents the objectives, evaluation, and…

This document reports on Parkway Missouri School District's Right to Read Reading Clinic aimed at improving the reading abilities of elementary school students. The contents consist of objectives, staffing procedures, testing, diagnosis, diagnostic tests, screening tests, case report forms, remediation phases, case study, case report, counselor…

Presented in this report are the evaluative data gathered during the second year of the project concerning the extent to which overall and component objectives were reached. The project was designed to advance teacher skill in the diagnostic-prescriptive approach to reading instruction, to the eventual benefit of all the children in the schools.…

This working paper discusses the utilization of the Prototypic System for Reading Instruction (PSRI) in the Wilson School at Janesville, Wisconsin. The core of the PSRI is a scope and sequence statement which outlines the skills normally taught in kindergarten to grade six: word attack, comprehension, study skills, self-directed reading,…

One facet in the development of a good program of reading is conscientious planning. The use of behaviorally stated objectives developed on a weekly, monthly, and unit basis provides the teacher with a means for measurable and meaningful evaluation. Individual diagnosis enables the teacher to know the level of instruction at which to begin a child…

In order to carry out the objective that students identified as retarded in reading will increase their reading achievement ot a predicted level based on accumulated data and diagnostic results, activities centered around three areas of concentration. (1) An exemplary program for the diagnosis of reading disabilities was established. Project area…

This paper is an account of procedures followed when the traditional classroom of a college reading and study skill program was changed to a fully individualized structure. A folder of information to be used by each pupil consisted of personal information graphs for plotting rate and comprehension scores, answer sheets, a reading skill and…

The primary purpose of this book is to present what seems to be the best thinking in the field about a variety of topics which concern the teaching of reading at the community/junior college level. Chapter one describes the type of institution the community/junior college has become and the variety of students whose needs it must meet. Chapter two…

Emphasis in the Jennings, Missouri, Learning Laboratory Program is placed on improving reading and language arts skills by first diagnosing and assessing the disability and then developing an individually prescribed program in which the student can utilize his strengths and remedy his weaknesses. With the goal of improving the English-reading…