Describes the planning and development of a learning center at the University of California at Berkley and offers suggestions to others who wish to develop a learning center. (RB)

Describes the purposes and programs of the national Right to Read effort. (RB)

Describes the development and facilities of the Open End Reading Program which provides individualized instruction and free choice of daily tasks. (MS)

Shows how a structured tutoring program helped increase both student and tutor reading scores. (JT)

Outlines a descriptive (not prescriptive) approach for the creation of a literature-based reading curriculum. Describes the 4 steps (behaving with basals, redefining reading, revving up for reading, and letting literature loose) that took the author 14 years of teaching to complete. Argues that literature-based reading programs are fun, enjoyable,…