Reports and explains the results of a conference on how children learn to read and proposes some principles for teaching beginning reading. (RB)

Teachers, attorneys, and law educators met to evaluate 1971 workshops in law education and to plan improved learning experiences at future workshops. Communication emphasized the teachers' desire for substantive background prior to teaching law at the elementary level. Attorneys argued process was more important than content. (JB)

Discusses the 1977 convention of the All Japan Teachers' Federation for studying the use of radio and television in education and formal school education (Zemporen). A topic of interest was whether broadcasts should be prepared in advance or used live; the consensus was that teachers will use programs in ways that suit their own teaching methods.…

Modern rhetoricians have begun to redefine basic structural units by observing and analyzing the process of formation, for example, sentences and paragraphs. Writing is beginning to be understood as a series of commitments and responses. Student exercises that objectify the vital concepts of form and organization in writing utilize rearrangement…

This book presents the highlights of the twenty-second annual reading conference at Lehigh University which covered a multitude of topics related to practices of classroom reading instruction. The contents include "Creativity in Teaching Reading,""A Consumers' Report on Learning to Read,""Open Education: What Is It?""Primary Reading--What Is…

This volume considers reading as it affects and is affected by a culture which is becoming increasingly oral, presenting the speculations, research, and recommendations of reading professionals. Contents include a brief introduction of Neil Postman followed by Postman's "The Politics of Reading" and nine articles divided into four sections: "Oral…

This booklet provides abstracts of the proceedings of a conference on reading conducted on 27 April 1974 by the Department of Teacher Preparation of York College of the City University of New York. The following conference presentations are discussed: "Reading Readiness--What Do I Believe?" (Lilyan Peters), "Preschool as a Language…

This paper, presented at the eighteenth annual convention of the International Reading Association, identifies the problems that reading may create in teaching social studies from kindergarten through grade twelve. Three alternatives are suggested for use when reading becomes difficult: (1) change the reading level of the material, (2) change the…

Project PLAN* is a computer managed, individualized learning system developed by the Westinghouse Learning Corporation, and adopted in the St. Louis Public Schools. A summative evaluation of the system was performed. The use of a computer in Project PLAN* allows the teacher more time to spend with individual students and contributes toward record…

The opening paper of this book deals with the central theme, "Reading: Seventy-five Years of Progress," and the other papers, delivered at the general sessions, are concerned with progress over the years in specific areas of reading instruction: "Characteristics of Successful Teaching of Reading,""The Major Aspects of Reading,""Identifying…

This study investigated the effects of a series of mathematics lessons which were designed to encourage a spatial mode of thinking. Using fifth-grade students from four intact classrooms, a pretest and posttest battery composed of spatial tests, reasoning tests, and a problem-solving test, were administered to the experimental and two control…

The document resulted from a 1965 conference at Ditchley Park, England, which convened to discuss the principles and policies of educational aid, especially in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. The conference was based on the idea that the relationship of Britain and the United States with developing countries is becoming increasingly important in…

This is a report on the symposium on Modern Languages in Primary Education held in Copenhagen in September 1976, and organized by the Government of Denmark under the auspices of the Council of Europe. The aim of the symposium was to study the conditions for successful modern language learning at the primary level. The report contains a general…

Questionnaires were sent to principals and teachers of second and sixth grade children who were part of an Educational Testing Service (ETS) study of compensatory reading programs; the data were combined and analyzed with the original ETS data to determine what effects instructional characteristics had on reading achievement. Within the…

A 1953 MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION-SPONSORED CONFERENCE OF SPECIALISTS ON TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS DREW UP A SERIES OF ANSWERS TO THE MOST FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT FLES. IN 1954, SPECIALISTS IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION MET TO CRITICIZE THESE ANSWERS AND TO DISCUSS PROBLEMS IN FLES. THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS BOTH THE…