Presents ideas and guidelines to those who are involved in the difficult task of selecting a reading program for their school districts. Includes a checklist for evaluation of skill development. (Author/SDH)

Reading teachers should be flexible enough to adapt to varying situations that they encounter when they are asked to develop school-wide reading programs. Under ideal conditions, the faculty and administration are enthusiastic volunteers who accomplish the bulk of the reading program's objectives in their classrooms, allowing the reading…

Secondary teachers must help students to expand vocabulary skills, to understand and apply ideas in complex reading material, and to improve organizational and work-study skills. To assess reading instruction at the junior high school level in one school district, classroom observations were made of teachers of mathematics, science, social…

A successful content area reading program not only includes reading classes that teach specific skills, but also provides for the inservice training of teachers, offering activities that facilitate student reading comprehension in the content areas. For such a program to succeed, the financial commitment and time devoted to teacher training must…

This monograph is the first in a series of semiannual reports focusing on research related to reading in secondary schools. The first section includes three reviews of literature specifically related to word analysis instruction for adolescents and to reading programs that have been examined from a research perspective. Of the two papers in the…

INFORMATION ABOUT ESEA READING PROJECTS FOR THE ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED WAS OBTAINED BY STRUCTURED TELEPHONE INTERVIEWS AND A SUPPLEMENTAL WRITTEN FORM FROM 632 SCHOOL SYSTEMS. FIELD VISITS WERE MADE TO 34 SELECTED SYSTEMS. THE MAJORITY OF THESE PROGRAMS WAS REMEDIAL IN NATURE (53.48 PERCENT). COMBINATION PROGRAMS (29.59 PERCENT) USUALLY…

A brief review of the research leads to the conclusion that children learn to read equally well with very different teaching methods and that the truly important factor in creating good or poor reading achievement is the quality of the teacher. Recommendations for preservice, inservice, and graduate training of teachers are given. The great influx…

The importance of the selection process involved in setting up a reading resource teacher training program is stressed. Mentioned are three factors found to be crucial in selection: assignment to the program must be voluntary, the volunteers selected must be persons highly respected by their colleagues, and each potential reading resource teacher…

The primary function of the reading consultant is to work with teachers in effecting change in attitude, method, and curriculum so that all students move toward their full potential in learning. To accomplish this function, the consultant can assist teachers in several ways. First, he can help teachers conceive of reading as a thinking process…

This article describes a reading improvement program operating in elementary schools near Copenhagen. Students take an annual reading test. The classroom teacher and the reading specialist review class scores to identify special-needs students and to plan reading program changes. General reading progress has been improved by this method. (SJL)

Finds that the keys to success were communication and collaboration between specialists and teachers. Notes that the participants expressed an awareness of the changing roles of reading specialists. Finds that major strengths were promoting self-esteem, fostering a love of reading, providing specialized instruction, serving as a student advocate,…

Issued twice yearly, this journal focuses on materials of interest to teachers of reading at the college level. The five articles in this issue deal with the following topics: basic skills instruction, judging the success of college reading programs, the effect of copying or paraphrasing structurally-cued topic sentences on passage comprehension,…

Part 1 of a book for administrators and teachers is devoted to an overview of the school reading program: its focus and scope, its component skills and their development, and its relationship to the other language arts. The emphasis is not on the specifics of instruction but on providing a framework within which efficient reading instruction can…

Disadvantaged children with reading difficulties in non-public New York City schools have been admitted to corrective reading programs administered by the New York City Board of Education since such programs were begun in 1965 with ESEA/Title I funds. In 1968-69, 157 schools and a total of 13,258 children were served in groups of 5 to 10.…

Reports on a study that investigated the changes in roles and activities of reading specialists in an in-class program as compared to the pull-out program they had previously run. (FL)