These conference proceedings reflect the growing appreciation of the related skills necessary for both teacher and pupil in acquiring competency in reading. Article titles are "The Teaching of Reading and Related Skills,""Reading Research from the Outside and Inside,""The Problem of Evaluating Aids to the Teaching of…

To test the long-range effectiveness of its ESEA Title III-sponsored program, officials of the Logan-Cache County Tutorial Center tested students served by the program 1 and 2 years after participation. The students, originally identified as underachievers, had been tutored in one-to-one or one-to-three tutoring situations or had been part of a…

The Perceptual Development Center was established in 1967 through ESEA Title III funds to provide diagnostic and remedial services for reading disabled elementary-school students. Concentrating on dyslexic students, the program includes a demonstration center, a diagnostic program, inservice training programs, and community education.…

Evaluative instruments used in the clinical program of an ESEA/Title III supplementary education center in New York state are included under four headings: (1) Applications for Diagnostic and Tutorial Services (Elementary School Application, Secondary School Application, Information Sheet for Completion by Parent or Guardian); (2) Report Forms to…

The study was requested by the Vancouver School Board Reading Centre (VSBRC) and the Education Department of the Vancouver School Board. The main purpose of the study was to make pre-treatment and post-treatment assessments of pupils of the VSBRC so that an evaluation of the VSBRC program could be made. A Questionnaire was sent to the current…

The Elementary Reading Centers located in 36 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, urban schools provide supplementary remedial reading instruction to pupils with low reading achievement and provide reading resource teachers to assist and train classroom teachers. Reading teachers emphasize comprehension, vocabulary development, word recognition, study skills,…

Surveys university-based reading clinics and their potential for research leadership. Recommends that graduate programs of reading/language arts examine the consistency between the clinical component and the developmental coursework of their degree programs. (ARH)

Describes the developmental college reading lab at the University of Georgia that is holistic and content-based, emphasizing individualized. direct instruction by qualified staff. (HOD)

There is a need for reading instruction at the college level because (1) no matter how much reading instruction a student has had, he or she can benefit from more; (2) it is not until college that some students realize how important reading is; and (3) many students make it to college who are still poor readers. A successful developmental reading…

Sponsored by a special interest group of the International Reading Association, the focus of this journal issue is on college reading improvement. Chapter titles include "College Level Developmental Reading and Study Skills Programs: Survey Report and Overview"; "Providing Assistance to College Science Teachers"; "Sitting in on Doctors Pompous and…

Considers the merits and disadvantages of withdrawing students from timetabled lessons for periods of intensive teaching and those of its alternative, namely, support for the ordinary class or subject teacher during normal lessons. (NKA)

A study investigated software choices of graduate-level clinicians in a university reading clinic to determine computer use and effectiveness in literacy instruction. The clinic involved students of varying ability, ages 7-12, using 24 Power Macintosh computers equipped with "ClarisWorks,""Kid Pix,""Student Writing…

Many adult poor readers do not organize what they read in a way that best facilitates good comprehension. To help students overcome this problem, the Adult Day and Evening School in Oakland, California, organized a reading laboratory for their mostly low-income, educationally disadvantaged students with a diverse range of needs. Instruction in the…

The Reading Miscue Inventory (RMI) is a diagnostic instrument based on the assumption that reading is not letter or word decoding, but rather a process of predicting, selecting, and sampling of cues that are subsequently tested by syntactic and semantic information within both the reader and the text. In a case study of three remedial readers…

This summary contains instructors' discussions of an independent research report which evaluated the compensatory education program at El Paso Community College, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Because of open admissions policies, many students enter this college without the prerequisite basic skills necessary to understand their texts. Over 75% of…