Designed for use by students in preservice education, by teachers taking extension courses in reading, and as a manual for inservice work in reading instruction, this book explains the major approaches to teaching developmental reading, suggests methods and techniques for implementing different reading programs, and offers practical suggestions for developing the basic reading skills. It is organized on a developmental plan, whereby users can move step by step from a consideration of reading theory through the use, organization, implementation, and evaluation of the most widely used approaches to reading instruction. Each chapter concludes with the following sections: "Principles to Remember,""Problems for Further Study,""Self-Test in Developmental Reading," and "References." (LL)