This learning guide helps teachers to understand the typical steps used in the construction of commercially produced, educational skills-management systems; to describe a representative set of such materials in the field of reading (the Wisconsin Design for Reading, the SRA "Diagnosis: An Instructional Aid," the Croft Word Attack and Comprehension…

Students who complete this module of a training program in diagnostic/prescriptive teaching of reading will be able to define specified terms important in the teaching of reading, to demonstrate competency in identifying and using various phonic and structural analysis rules, and to outline the sequence of skills typically taught in school reading…

The purpose of this learning module is to instruct reading teachers in the technique of diagnostic-prescriptive teaching, an individualized mastery plan in which learning strategies are implemented on the basis of each student's particular needs. Activities, including reading assignments, observations, and active participation, are suggested in…