What kind of bilingual education was being offered in New Jersey's schools before the Bilingual Education Act? What should be offered? (Editor)

The first year of an ESEA/Title III experimental program to teach beginning reading in Spanish to 300 Mexican-American first graders in Corpus Christi, Texas, was described. While learning to read in Spanish, the children simultaneously learned English through aural-oral approach, with the goal of reading in both languages by the end of grade 2. A…

This manual presents an English phonetic reading program based upon pictures which provide clues to each fundamental speech in the language. Pupils are thus able, through auditory and visual discrimination exercises, to match an English speech sound with its proper alphabet symbol. For related documents, see FL 003 749, FL 003 750, and FL 003…

This article systematically reviews research on elementary reading programs for English language learners and other language minority students. It focuses on studies that compared experimental and control groups on quantitative reading measures. Among beginning reading models, research supported structured, phonetic programs emphasizing language…

This report includes descriptions of ongoing reading programs for Navajo students in Rough Rock, Rock Point, and Navajo Community College, presented by teacher-participants in the conference on reading held in Kayenta, Arizona, January 30-31, 1970. Also included are reports from the Navajo Reading Study staff and a discussion of the problems of…

A special reading system was developed for elementary school children learning to read for the first time in their second language, English. This paper describes the reading system and traces its success over a four-year period as measured through standardized testing instruments. (Author)

This classification index was compiled for the purpose of providing educators, researchers, and students with a vehicle for quick accessibility to the diversified information appearing in "The Reading Teacher" from 1967 to 1978. The titles of articles in the index have been organized into 15 major categories and 37 subcategories, derived through a…

THIS TWO-YEAR BEGINNING READING SERIES WAS PREPARED BY A GROUP OF LINGUISTS WHICH INCLUDED RALPH F. ROBINETT, PAULINE M. ROJAS, AND PAUL W. BELL, IN COOPERATION WITH THE DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, FLORIDA. (SEE RELATED DOCUMENTS ED 001 693, ED 001 694, ED 001 695, AND ED 001 696.) THIS REVISED EXPERIMENTAL EDITION COMPRISES 10 PRE-PRIMERS,…

This Bureau of Indian Affairs publication focuses on the problems of beginning reading in English. Ralph Robinett's "The Teaching of English Reading to American Indian Children" discusses basic premises and approaches to reading for speakers of English as a second language or as a standard dialect. The "Information Exchange" describes projects and…

This paper argues that literature-centered reading programs, based on the perspective that reading is the process of bringing meaning to print, are in the best interest of the language minority students in the nation's elementary schools. After a review of basal reading systems and language-centered reading programs, the paper describes the…

To assist Cree-speaking native Canadian students in English language acquisition, the Mighty Moose Reading Project was initiated with a threefold aim: to develop program materials designed specifically as supplementary beginning reading materials for native students; to determine the effectiveness of the materials in improving reading skills, oral…