Pacesetting high schools, middle grades schools and technology centers have changed classroom and other practices to prepare students to meet postsecondary requirements and rising workplace needs. The strategies include raising expectations, project-based learning, guidance and advisement, improving students' reading and writing skills,…

Reports the results of a successful reading project which reduced the drop-out rate and increased the reading levels of high school students in Tolleson, Arizona. (RB)

This project provided individual and small group remedial reading instruction to pupils in 14 alternative high schools in New York City. Students were assigned on the basis of a minimun of two years retardation in reading skills as determined by standardized reading achievement test scores, recommendations of guidance counselors and staff…

Outlines a meaning-based reading program for English-as-a-second-language teenagers in grades 8-12 aimed at promoting analytic thinking, cultural integration, and creative processing skills, as well as increased English proficiency. Discusses general and specific objectives, reading materials, types of reading programs, integrated and followup…

Describes an innovative approach to the familiar structure of readers' workshop in which troubled adolescent males reexamined their early literacy experiences through the process of reading, listening to, and reacting to children's books. Notes that many of these readers came to see reading as a valuable life activity, a form of enjoyment, and…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 360 predominantly Spanish-speaking students from middle-income families living in a small city. The program was begun in 1973. The program strives to meet the reading needs of all students, to provide for growth in their reading achievement, and to improve their…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 391 disadvantaged ninth- and tenth-grade students (about 20 percent are black) at eleven large city high schools in Phoenix. The program was begun in 1971 for students entering the ninth grade. By high school graduation, all students (excluding mentally handicapped and…

This annotated bibliography contains listings of 7 publications on literacy, 16 on reading, and 14 on writing. These professional materials include books, collections of articles, research reports, proposals, program descriptions, descriptions of teaching methods, dictionaries, teacher guides, and exercises/strategies for the learner. Materials in…

Describes Literacy and Technology Hands On, a program of literacy instruction for young people with Down syndrome who have recently left school, which uses a combination of technology and more traditional methods to continue these students' literacy instruction into young adulthood. Discusses the program's rationale, aims, features, theoretical…

This document describes the Education Through Organ Study Program (ETHOS) designed to counteract disaffected students' falling academic achievement, absenteeism and truancy, and negative attitudes toward education and the school. The program attempted to assure success in acquiring musical skill by providing portable desk reed organs, programmed…

Shows how a structured tutoring program helped increase both student and tutor reading scores. (JT)

Describes a case study of a sixth-grade student experiencing profound difficulties in learning to read, and the instructional intervention that helped him make significant progress. Comments on the public school's responsibility to provide effective remedial instruction. (SR)

Describes the competency-based teacher training system that will include reading- and math-related teaching skills generic to all vocational program areas and competencies specific to each program area; assessment criteria and learning activities for each competency; individualized, self-paced learning modules; a management system for the learning…

The Intellectual Framework Analysis (IFA) is a structured approach to reading expository prose. Suitable for use with high school students and college freshmen, the IFA consists of a number of questions concerning the author's subject matter, classifications, value judgments, motivation, and form/content. The IFA incorporates a number of study…