This paper describes the generation, implementation, and results of a personalized reading program operating in a conventional college classroom intended to create opportunities for students to learn how to learn, to direct their own learning, and to improve their reading and vocabulary skills. The contents include "Program Generation, which…

This paper traces the development of the seven-volume Florida Catalog of Performance Objectives for Reading and Writing, kindergarten through grade twelve, and describes the nature, purposes, and use of the finished product. The project was funded by the Florida Education Department, and the researchers built on earlier catalogs developed in…

The objectives presented in this booklet are those that were prepared for the second assessment in the area of reading. The objectives are only one step in the total National Assessment project and provide the foundation upon which the exercises are based. The contents include "Development of Revised Reading Objectives," which presents a…

Both the remediation of reading deficiencies and the alleviation of severely deviant behaviors are necessary for the proper social and emotional development of the child and for his normal academic achievement. A successful reading program for children with behavior problems provides for daily success. Initial and continued teacher reinforcement…

The Executive Summary contained in this volume is intended to offer to Congress, agency officials, and the general public an initial descriptive assessment of school-based sites in the National Right to Read Program and to report on the study made in the areas of reading instruction and acquisition by Contemporary Research Incorporated (CRI) in…

This book, volume two of a four-volume report of 44 school-based sites in the National Right to Read Program, documents the reading gains made by the students. Statistical data on reading test scores are charted by grade level and by total school for each of the sites involved. The same statistics are included on an across-site comparative basis.…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether there is a significant difference in the self-concept scores of first-grade children receiving self-concept training and those not receiving such training; whether there is a difference in the reading achievement scores of first-grade children receiving self-concept training and those not…

This paper reports on a Humboldt County School District project aimed at identifying solutions to pupils' reading deficiencies. The contents include: "Project Procedure Summary," which lists eight program objectives, procedures for implementation of the objectives, and evaluation of the objectives; "Evaluation Summary," which…

A major purpose of the 1972-73 evaluation of school-based Right to Read sites was to provide a comprehensive description of the reading program at each school. Volume 3 (parts 1, 2, and 3) describes reading programs in terms of school, student, and teacher characteristics. Additionally, all program variables that characterized each site are…

Two 1-week workshops dealing with reading and reading related topics were held during the summer of 1973 by the Kansas Right to Read Project. The workshops were designed to acquaint the 60 participants with new reading techniques and to prepare them to return to their schools and pass these techniques on to the other teachers. Two methods were…

The purposes of this study were to search out, against a framework of discernible periods, representative "Elementary English" articles on reading which typify the trends, controversies, and research efforts of the era, and to assemble commentary about the selected articles into a single volume. Articles which best met a four point criteria were…

The purposes of this study were to evaluate the effect of a diagnostic structured kindergarten program on the predicted reading levels of disadvantaged urban children and to compare the effect of this program with the effect of the traditional kindergarten curriculum. The subjects were 196 children in eight kindergarten classes. More than 70% of…

This booklet is designed to provide guidelines for testing in reading and suggestions for using the test results in ways which will most benefit the student. Ten canons are presented which are intended to serve as guidelines for program-related assessment within a framework of instructional decision making. They are concerned primarily with the…

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect that various methods of using television have on instruction in reading for second graders. A specific part of the study was to explore whether teacher interaction is an important consideration in the use of the educational television program, "The Electric Company." A sample of 156…

The theme of this issue of the "Minnesota English Journal" is reading. The contents include "Preamblings," which discusses some of the current concerns in reading instruction; "The State of Minnesota's Right to Read Program," which looks at the Minnesota plan for building the reading program in conjunction with inservice education, and for…