The Topeka Reading Clinic, Centers, and Services provides help for disabled readers in the Topeka, Kansas, elementary and junior high schools. The professional staff of the clinic diagnoses reading disabilities and designs remedial programs. The remedial reading teachers affiliated with the clinic offer reading classes in the schools for grade 4…

The effects of five secondary school individualized in-service training programs on classroom reading skills instruction are compared. The initial and final perceptions of the teachers, concerning their responsibilities for providing for pupils' individual differences in reading abilities, are measured by use of attitude inventories, self-rating…

A study was done to determine the 1988-90 sustained gains in reading or mathematics among students in grades two through five in Seattle (Washington). These students were not retained but given compensatory education for 1 of the 2 years through one of the following models: (1) a traditional "pull-out" approach in reading and/or…

The text presents information gained from interviews with blind and physically handicapped children, their mothers, teachers, reading specialists, and librarians concerning reading patterns and library use. The book describes the difficulties handicapped children face in learning to use and enjoy such reading materials as braille books, large…

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…

As part of the work from the Content Area Reading Project (CARP), which focuses on inservice teacher education in content area reading, a study examined the effects of an inservice content area reading program that involved two three-hour workshops per month on the theory and practical application of teaching methods for content area reading…

This journal issue deals with training teachers of reading. The four articles discuss a summer reading methods practicum that worked, how students rate their reading instructors, how reading consultants can survive school politics, and college students' perceptions of the fairness and the difficulty of examinations. (FL)

To function effectively, a reading specialist must be trained to diagnose reading difficulties, prescribe and implement appropriate treatment, and work effectively with both teachers and children in an interpersonal environment. As an alternative solution to the traditional campus reading clinic, a dual based clinic was established with theory and…

As the second in a four volume final report of a Right to Read preservice, competency-based modular reading specialist project, this volume presents the module outlines for components two through six of the classroom program. Component two (readiness and beginning reading) trains the students in language development, dialect differences, language…

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…

In an effort to clarify and elaborate on the International Reading Association's recommendations for professional preparation of secondary reading teachers and secondary reading consultants, competency objectives are presented in performance-based behavioral terms for secondary reading teachers and consultants. The objectives are stated in an…

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,…

THE ROLES OF A READING CONSULTANT IN TWO SITUATIONS--AS A CATALYST IN A GROUP AND AS A "HELPFUL FRIEND" IN A ONE-TO-ONE SITUATION--WERE COMPARED IN A 1964 STUDY. THIRTY-FIVE FIRST-GRADE CLASSROOMS AND 35 TEACHERS IN 10 SCHOOLS IN WALLINGTON, CONNECTICUT, WERE DIVIDED INTO TWO GROUPS. IN THE FIVE CONTROL SCHOOLS (METHOD 1), CONSULTANT…

This qualitative study used theories of language and learning to explore the identities of one preservice teacher in a reading specialization program. Data sources included archived online course responses, interviews, journals, and an electronic portfolio. Analysis indicates that the participant used multiple discourses as an immigrant,…

Reading specialists in several San Diego schools assist both in providing tutoring to students and coach peers, a dual role that has helped to create and sustain schoolwide improvements in literacy. In just a few years, these high-poverty schools have doubled the number of 2nd graders reading at grade level.