This booklet is one of eight developed both as resource guides to assist Wisconsin public schools in offering quality reading instruction and as models for improvement where there is a need for change. This first booklet is an overview of the Right to Read effort at the national, state, and local levels. In addition to background material, it…

The contents of this Right to Read report for the fiscal year 1974 include: "Preface"; "Right to Read--Its Purposes and Goals," which briefly discusses the organization, the major goals, agencies, and programs, and interrelated services or branches of the Right to Read effort; "State Education Agencies," which looks…

The history of the college reading improvement program is traced and summarized from 1915 to 1970. The major factors which influenced and shaped the development during 5 decades are listed. During the period from 1920 to 1929, reading tests, tachistoscopes, workbooks, and eye cameras became readily available. From 1930 to 1939, the advent of…

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…

Describing the SouthEastern Regional Vision for Education (SERVE) program and its mission to promote and support the continual improvement of educational opportunities for all learners in the Southeast, this paper discusses ways that teachers can decipher their students' progress in reading to help further develop students' reading skills. It is…

An on-site description attempts to offer ideas that can be considered, adapted, and improved upon for reading programs. (RB)

How effective are the Frostig training program and corrective reading instruction for improving the reading and visual-motor skills of pupils who possess deficiencies in both areas? Results of this study show little support for use of the Frostig program or corrective reading as treatments to improve the reading skills of children considered to…

Points out some recurring ideas about the use of children's literature in the elementary reading program based on a review of 25 years of "The Reading Teacher." (FL)

Describes a remedial reading program that involves educational counseling of parents to help them in assisting their children to read at home. (HTH)

Describes Rockwood (Missouri) School District's successful reading-intervention program for a diverse population of K-5 students with reading difficulties. (PKP)

Discusses specific objectives related to the three-year Target Four Reading Program developed by the staff at Central School in Roundup, Montana. (RS)

Offers a brief history of college level reading programs from the 1920s to the present. Concludes that, despite past trials and errors, most established college reading programs appear to be in firm ground. (PRA)

Replies to an article in this issue that responded to an earlier article ("On Balanced Reading") by this author. Argues that Welna's unbalanced coverage of research and critique is the very fuel that continues the Reading Wars. Argues that a study of past and present research can lead the profession to common ground. (SR)