A number of ways that a reading consultant can assist teachers and students are enumerated in order to define the role of the reading consultant at the University of Chicago Laboratory High School. Here the reading consultant prepares score cards and charts for teacher and librarian reference in checking individual or group abilities, works with…

The background and the organization of the reading internship run by Oakland Schools (Michigan) are briefly described. The eight-week program provides training for elementary and secondary teachers from constituent school districts, which enables them to function as reading support personnel. Areas of study include reading theory and methodolgoy,…

Finds that teachers who received the services of a reading field agent--a specialist hired specifically to assist classroom teachers in utilizing their reading resources to the fullest--showed some specific gains in their knowledge of appropriate teaching strategies. (GW)

An account of the Barking Reading Project designed to prepare classroom teachers (instead of reading specialists) to respond to children with severe reading difficulties. The subject of a two-year government research study, the project's findings endorse initiatives that promote classroom teacher ability to make good teaching decisions relating to…

Classifies the approaches used in inservice education programs as either survey, intensive, or coordination of services; elaborates on the scope of each; and makes projections for future uses. (MD)

A survey of reading teachers and Title I program directors in Kansas indicates that 50 percent of the former and 90 percent of the latter do not judge themselves adequately prepared to teach handicapped children under the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. (CJ)

Offers a few suggestions on how to implement a school or district content-area reading and writing program. (PKP)

Describes a Coordinators Applying Whole Language (CAWL) group that provides a way for reading coordinators in a number of school districts in a metropolitan area to support each other. Argues that reading supervisors can influence classroom reading and writing instruction among local school districts. (RS)

Evidence is mounting that federal employees and their agents may have directed or even pressured states to choose specific assessments, consultants, and the criteria for evaluating core reading programs as conditions for getting funding under the Reading First initiative, possibly in violation of federal law. "Education Week" found such…

There is currently an intense focus across our nation on reading and literacy, particularly an increased focus on preventing reading difficulties. This attention comes from diverse constituencies, including policy-makers, researchers, parents, specialists of all varieties (e.g., speech-language pathologists, reading specialists, psychologists),…