One of the programs included in "Effective Reading Programs...," this program's goals are to improve children's reading ability, to provide each child with an individually tailored instruction prescription based on diagnosed needs, and to involve the community in a democratic process of planning and helping. The program is operated in…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves an unselected cross section fo 793 students in K-6. The program is designed to provide classroom teachers with information about the needs and progress of each student in order to enable teachers to diagnose reading problems and prescribe activities to correct them. The…

Argues that computers can be used in schools or reading clinics to maintain skill banks for organizing information about materials, tests, and prescriptive recommendations. (FL)

Describes the program of the University of South Carolina's college of general studies development center, which was created in order to improve student reading skills. (FL)

This second edition contains descriptions of 29 diagnostic-prescriptive reading programs (K-12) for which some success has been demonstrated in the classroom as shown by statistical evidence of significant improvement of student learning. A four-page program profile matrix provides the reader with easy identification of the salient features of…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," was begun in 1971 and serves about 300 students in kindergarten through grade 6. Three or four children from each class, who are identified by test results and/or evaluation by a teacher or a reading consultant as those most in need of remedial reading instruction, are selected…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," was begun in 1970 and serves more than 26,000 students in grades 1-5 in 77 Fort Worth elementary schools. A diagnostic-prescriptive approach is used to teach reading to these students. A "Continuum of Reading Skills" sets forth a basic philosophy, a herrarchy of skills,…

This paper discusses California's Cost Effective Demonstration Reading Programs--Reading for Survival, which operate on the premise that the junior high school years are an optimum time for intensive instruction in reading. The programs use a diagnostic/prescriptive approach. This begins with diagnostic testing of all students, followed by the…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves about 5,950 first, second, and third graders from 33 schools. The program hopes to significantly diminish reading problems in its children by offering three years of intensive diagnostic reading instruction for 90 minutes a day during their first three years of school. The…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Progrms...," serves 265 elementary and presecondary-level students in six private learning centers. In addition, more than 7,000 students in K-12 are served in 30 public school reading-achievement centers. The program is designed to help children at all levels of reading ability. It employs an…

The philosophy of this reading program is to guide all children to become independent readers and to stimulate them to build an abiding interest in reading a variety of materials on a wide range of topics. Essentially a diagnostic-prescriptive approach, the program instructs teachers in determining children's performance levels or potential…

The Right-to-Read Program outlined in this document is an ungraded project for kindergarten through third grade, which utilizes individual diagnostic tests to place pupils at their instructional levels of reading and to prescribe plans of individualized instruction based on specific curriculum objectives. The document sketches the development of…

Article focuses on the learning of specific reading skills; discusses procedures for identifying individual needs, and ways to set up and keep individual pupil records; and cites sources (of). . .more detailed ideas." (Author)

A study was conducted to determine whether primary school children who were taught reading with an experimental modality prescriptive-diagnostic reading program achieved higher reading comprehension scores in the intermediate grades than did children who were taught reading with a traditional reading approach. The experimental group was composed…

Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI), like other reading programs, does work, but only for certain teachers and with certain youngsters. On the positive side, IPI sets up a series of steps that allow the teacher to know where the child is and in what direction he is going. It enables the teacher to know his subject matter well, and enables…