This paper illustrates how the Kelly repertory grid and the Thomas focusing technique can be used to help teachers and learners become aware of learners' purposes for reading, and how these purposes can be used in a program for improving competencies in reading for learning. The grid elicitation and focusing techniques are briefly described. Four…

Describes the "Get Excited about Reading" program at the South Side Middle School, Anderson, IN. Notes that the goals are to lead middle school students to realize the importance of reading; be motivated and challenged to grow in their love of reading; share their excitement of reading with others; and make reading a lifelong priority.…

Outlines one junior high school's method of improving students' reading habits through a book fair, a book exchange club, and a weekly read-in. (MM)

This manual presents information on how to conduct a tutorial reading program that features a plan for motivating students. The program is intended for upper elementary and junior high school students who read approximately on a second- or third-grade level. The basis for this program is an instructional design, the Staats "Motivated Learning"…

This manual describes how the Uniondale, New York, school district uses a technological system, the Graphics Expression System (GES), to produce dramatic reading improvement on the part of elementary school underachievers. It shows how GES, based upon the assumption that all youngsters want to communicate, employs a television mini-studio and an…