Gives a list of guidelines for reading specialists to use in evaluating content area textbooks. (MKM)

Discusses the role of reading specialists in remediating reading difficulties in mainstreamed classrooms. Describes meeting students' needs, planning, and assessment in a mainstreaming with consultation model which seems to be effective. (SR)

AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE READING COORDINATOR'S TASK IS CONCERNED WITH CORRECTIVE WORK IN THE LANGUAGE ARTS. COORDINATORS SERVE AS CONSULTANTS TO TEACHERS. IN ADDITION, THEY MAY BE EXPECTED TO WORK WITH SMALL GROUPS OF UNDER-ACHIEVERS TO MOTIVATE AND STIMULATE THEM TO MEET SCHOOL REQUIREMENTS WITH SOME DEGREE OF SUCCESS. WORK MAY INVOLVE GUIDANCE…

The consultant function has great potential for creating positive and worthwhile changes in the reading program. The degree of success attained will be determined by the clarity with which the role is defined and responsibilities delineated, an understanding of the interrelationships between consultant responsibilities and those of other…

Presents results of a questionnaire profiling duties and concerns of state and provincial reading consultants in the United States and Canada. (TO)

Views controversies over the Miller-Unruh Reading Act as the origin of total state involvement in the teaching of reading in California. (MD)

Offers two scenarios which helped change the author's practice as a reading coordinator and helped her teachers explore personal research questions. (MG)

A great deal has been written in the professional literature about the importance of dispositions for beginning teachers with initial certification; however, little attention has been paid to the dispositions necessary for advanced certification candidates. What dispositions are expected of advanced certification candidates? How can these…

The Reading Rescue tutoring intervention model was investigated with 64 low-socioeconomic status, language-minority first graders with reading difficulties. School staff provided tutoring in phonological awareness, systematic phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and reading comprehension. Tutored students made significantly greater gains reading words…

Article is an interview with Mary Austin, author of "The First R" and "The Torchlighters". (GB)

Presents a useful instrument which determines what administrators and teachers expect of reading specialists. (RB)

In St. Paul (Minnesota) a certified reading consultant is assigned to each secondary school to provide initial and continuous inservice to English teachers who then teach developmental reading classes as part of the communication curriculum. (Author/MLF)

Presents the findings of a study of the attitudes of classroom teachers toward reading consultants. (DD)