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Ostertag, Bruce A.; Schnoor, Janice M. – Academic Therapy, 1981
A reading practices survey of 138 Arizona secondary learning disabled teachers was conducted. Among results were that 65 percent of special educators indicated access to reading specialist/instructed programs; the Individualized Reading Approach was the method used most; and the special educator was the professional mainly responsible for reading…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Reading Consultants, Reading Instruction, Reading Materials
Morrison, Beverly – 1980
This guide presents a staff development program on content area reading that high school reading specialists can conduct for teachers of content areas such as history, chemistry, and literature. Section one of the guide offers specific reasons why professional growth is necessary for teachers, why reading education ought to be part of that…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Faculty Development, Guidelines, Inservice Teacher Education
Download full textKIPLING, CECIL – 1967
A TOTAL READING PROGRAM WHICH MEETS THE NEEDS OF ALL CHILDREN IN GRADES K-12 SHOULD BE BASED ON SOUND PHILOSOPHY AND RESEARCH. CHILDREN SHOULD BE TAUGHT TO READ AT A LEVEL AT WHICH THEY CAN FUNCTION SUCCESSFULLY. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS, ADEQUATE MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT MUST BE PROVIDED TO MAINTAIN INDIVIDUAL RECORDS, AND PARENTS MUST BE CONSIDERED…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Curriculum Design, Developmental Reading, Elementary Education
Debrick, Mary Ann; And Others – 1968
This guide was prepared to assist the reading specialist or coordinator in the secondary school. The general objectives and rationale of the secondary reading program are given, along with the International Reading Association minimum standards for professional training of reading specialists. The overall structure of the reading program as an…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Curriculum Guides, Educational Objectives, Reading Consultants
Peer reviewedWoods, Alice R.; Topping, Mary H. – Journal of Reading, 1986
Reports on a survey used to evaluate the secondary school reading program in Polk County, Florida. (DF)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Program Content, Program Effectiveness, Reading Consultants
Peer reviewedWiggins, Phyllis Wynn – Journal of Reading, 1972
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Curriculum Development, Inner City, Inservice Education
Peer reviewedBader, Lois A. – Journal of Reading, 1972
Descriptors: Field Experience Programs, Methods Courses, Reading Consultants, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedGreenfield, Carol Sue – Reading Improvement, 1979
Suggests that the most feasible way of achieving rapport between secondary school content area teachers and reading specialists is through in-service programs that utilize total school in-service, departmental in-service, individual in-service, total school and departmental in-service, or a combination of these approaches. (FL)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Inservice Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Reading Consultants
Storer, Eldon L. – 1970
A problem-solving evaluative approach is described for an ESEA/Title III program in Topeka, Kansas. One problem in the program was to identify the reading curriculum needs of the 34 elementary, 11 junior high, and 3 high schools with a total enrollment of 25,000 students. There were 1,000 students 2 or more years below their expected level who had…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Education, Federal Programs, Inservice Education
Dietrich, Dorothy M. – 1977
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…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Inservice Teacher Education, Junior High Schools, Reading Consultants
Ryder, Randall J. – 1978
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…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Development
Vaughan, Joseph L., Jr., Ed.; Gaus, Paula J., Ed. – 1978
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…
Descriptors: Program Content, Reading Consultants, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs
Bragstad, M. Bernice – 1971
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…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Content Area Reading, Corrective Reading, Reading Consultants
Ketcham, Clay A., Ed. – 1962
The proceedings of the fifth annual meeting of the College Reading Association, held in 1962, consisted of the following papers: (1) "President's Report to the College Reading Association" (Albert J. Mazurkiewicz); (2) "Medical Aspects of Written Language Disability" (James J. Smith); (3) "Research and Secondary…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Handicaps, Paperback Books, Programed Instruction
Farren, Sean; Johnston, Mary – 1979
A survey was conducted of 42 secondary schools in the North-Eastern Education Board area of Northern Ireland concerning remedial reading practices and procedures adopted by remedial reading teachers. The survey consisted of 50 questions divided into seven parts: general background information on the schools; number of pupils receiving remedial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Consultants, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Research
