Three facets of the state of Washington's Right to Read program are presented in this document. The facets include: "Guidelines for School-Based Component," which discusses goals and objectives, basic assumptions, role of the state education agency, role of the local education agency, role of the right to read consultants, role of the…

This document lists several prerequisites required for reading, especially those that relate to English as a Second Language students. The prerequisites listed include; the concept of print, which discusses the importance of a student being aware that printed material conveys thought through words which are at least similar, if not identical to…

This booklet summarizes forty-two Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.)research reports, highlighting the major features of each study. With minor variation, usually resulting from an absence of complete information, each abstract indicates the number and type of students involved, their grade level, and how they were assigned to experimental or…

This paper discusses affective strategies for teaching reading at the elementary school level. The contents include: "Use of Newspaper," which presents a chart of reading skills to be used by the teacher and provides such suggestions for developing interest in the newspaper as having a newspaper editor visit the classroom, role playing as…

This pamphlet, part of the National Reading Center Volunteer Reading Tutor Program, presents information for the use of a local coordinating committee. The contents include: a volunteer reading tutor program, how the National Reading Center's program works, the local coordinating committee, membership and functions of the local coordinating…

Children with perceptual handicaps are often taught reading in the same manner as children in regular school placements. To present a description of the oral reading of such children, five were selected using the I.T.P.A., the Frostig, and the comments of a neurologist. They each read a story orally, and retold the story, following the reading. A…

Some practical suggestions on how educational technology can help the classroom teacher who teaches reading. (HB)

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…

This report is concerned with the status of former clinic subjects who completed instruction two to seven years prior to this study. Changes in reading performance were investigated, actual reading level was compared with the reading expectancy level for each student, and the subjects' and parents' ratings of the subjects' reading performance and…

This Colorado Department of Education final report describes the reading program efforts aimed at increasing the reading skills of students who were behind in reading achievement. "Summary and Recommendations" summarizes the results for the 1972-73 program. "Introduction" discusses the purpose and the plan, appropriation of…

The major aim of this project was to develop dissemination packages for reading programs that had demonstrated effectiveness in improving reading achievement. The search involved a review of past research studies, computer stored abstracts, and library materials, as well as the obtaining of nominations from experts in the field and from the staff…

This supplement to the final report, "Identifying, Validating, and Multi-Media Packaging of Effective Reading Programs," was prepared for Right to Read for use in developing an effective plan for interesting potential users in examining and possibly adopting the validated, packaged programs. The six chapters in the document address key…

This study is a final evaluation of the Harding, Oklahoma, Right to Read project covering the time period from the summer of 1972 through the summer of 1974. The purposes of the longitudinal study were to describe each phase of the project and to answer two questions: What was the nature of inservice training given to teachers? What classroom…

The purposes of this study were to make comparisons between reading at all grades on the basis of instruction and materials and the Oklahoma City public schools' reading philosophy, and to provide insight as to why the reading grade scores were low, particularly at the fourth grade level. The evaluation process was concerned with surveying the…

This reading guide is intended to assist elementary teachers in planning, implementing, and evaluating reading programs in order to improve reading instruction. The introduction discusses such topics as the status of reading in society and school, the purpose of reading instruction, and goals of reading instruction. "Organizing for Instruction"…