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Tennessee State Dept. of Education, Nashville. – 1974
This document consists of 11 brochures developed for the Right to Read program in Tennessee. Each brochure addresses a different topic. "Introduction" discusses the program's objectives and an effective developmental reading program; "A Positive Approach" looks at why many students fail to become efficient readers and discusses…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Reading Development, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
Chall, Jeanne – Instructor, 1974
Author considers two of the major issues in reading debated in the sixties: how to start; when to start. (GB)
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Reading, Reading, Reading Consultants
Greenville County School District, Greenville, SC. – 1974
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"…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Elementary Education, Reading, Reading Improvement

Minnesota State Dept. of Education, St. Paul. – 1972
This paper provides a definition of the characteristics necessary for a quality reading program in a Right to Read local education agency. Against these criteria the Right to Read Advisory Council of the local education agency may evaluate its current program. Through a comparison of current practices with what should be, existing strengths may be…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Curriculum Development, Reading, Reading Achievement
Allen, Gary G. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1971
The Federal-State-local, public-private right to read effort is evaluated by the former acting director of the Right to Read National Reading Center. (JF)
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Federal Programs, Illiteracy, Reading Comprehension
Phi Delta Kappan, 1971
The new director of the Right to Read Program answers criticisms of that program by its former director. (JF)
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Federal Programs, Illiteracy, Reading Comprehension
King, Rachelle R. – Teacher, 1977
Afraid-to-make-a-peep students gain confidence and practice pronunciation with simple sound blend and word activities. (Editor)
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Oral Reading
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. – 1974
This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves all students, kindergarten through grade twelve, in Maryland's public schools. The prime objective of the program is to ensure that all Maryland students can meet society's reading demands. The following three major considerations determine the goals: the reader as a…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Functional Literacy, Reading Improvement
Upper Cumberland Reading Project, Baxter, TN. – 1974
The Upper Cumberland Reading Project, funded under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, served 13 rural Tennessee counties located approximately equidistant from three major cities: Nashville, Chattanooga, and Knoxville. The project's instructional approach was built around the basal text because of its use in all of the…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Elementary Education, Reading, Reading Improvement
Gardner, Keith – 1974
Television output in the United Kingdom is limited to three main channels. Two of these are controlled by a public corporation, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); one is operated by a number of commercial companies under the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA). Both the BBC and IBA have expanded their educational output in recent…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Educational Television
MAY, MARGUERITE; AND OTHERS – 1963
COURSE OUTLINES FOR BASIC READING, READING IMPROVEMENT, AND POWER READING FOR BOTH JUNIOR AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS ARE PRESENTED. INCLUDED IN EACH OUTLINE IS A COURSE DESCRIPTION, AN INTRODUCTION, A DESCRIPTION OF THE PUPIL, COURSE OBJECTIVES, AND A LIST OF THE FUNDAMENTAL READING SKILLS. EACH OUTLINE PROVIDES THE FRAMEWORK FOR PLANNING THE…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Course Organization, Junior High Schools, Reading Improvement
French, Elinor – 1974
This study was designed to investigate whether the comprehension skills of the better readers in second and third grade could be significantly increased through the use of a reading enrichment program as an adjunct to their classroom reading program. Subjects were 64 pupils in three second-grade and four third-grade classes in a middle-class…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Grade 2, Grade 3, Reading
Trockman, Mitchell D. – 1970
The Instructional Materials Center (IMC) originated in association with the development of a course to train teachers in specific techniques for teaching reading and the use of a wide range of multisensory reading materials. The major objective of the IMC project was to supply teachers with a wide variety of useful instructional materials for…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Elementary Education, Reading, Reading Improvement
Morrow, Elmer Charles – 1972
The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effect of taped listening lessons on the achievement of first grade readers. Five classes of first grade children were randomly chosen for treatment one (T1) and five for treatment two (T2). T1 subjects studied reading by use of the Ginn Basal Reading program for skills-building, the…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Listening
Smith, Rodney Pennell, Jr. – 1973
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…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational History, Literature Reviews