Describes the use of a structured language experience approach and an imitative, or taped book, approach to teaching reading to children who were reading with difficulty. (MKM)

Presents a last resort technique for teaching reading to adolescent and adult illiterates. (RS)

Contributors discuss ways to introduce and motivate: (1) beginning reading, (2) repeated readings in the remedial classroom, (3) vision and cognitive style, (4) guidelines for a reading aloud program, and (5) good beginnings for potential reading teachers. (FL)

This paper reviews what current research says about best practices in reading instruction for students with mild mental retardation. After introducing some key reading issues (such as effects of early reading failure), two principal approaches to reading instruction are discussed: first, the traditional/bottom-up synthetic approach which begins…

This paper analyzes some of the conditions affecting the introduction of innovations in reading instruction in post-war Britain. The relationship between these innovations and research is explored. Section one presents background information and discusses possible causes for the influx of innovative techniques in reading instruction in the 1950s…

Focusing on remedial reading instruction for primary level students (grades K-3), this handbook presents training materials for teachers and coordinators of Chapter 1 reading programs. After a discussion on the nature and purpose of the program, the handbook describes a model of Chapter 1 programming, presenting three combined approaches that are…