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…

Reports on a study to determine whether placement in a remedial English class is more effective than placement in a regular English class for enabling students who are beyond the acquisition phase of reading development to pass district minimal competency tests. Data support placement in the regular English class. (NH)

This booklet presents descriptions of 72 successful basic skills reading programs collected from school districts nationwide by the National Diffusion Network. Information provided for each program includes: (1) program name and brief description; (2) audience focus (noting grade and ability levels); (3) a detailed abstract of the program; (4)…

This document presents a review of the Remedial Reading Project also known as Conquest. This project served 19 Title I elementary schools, two parochial elementary and junior high schools, and four district junior high schools in the St. Louis, Missouri school district. The main components of the project were the reading rooms, reading clinics,…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 350 seventh graders and 295 eighth graders from middle-income families. The seventh-grade component began in 1971; the eighth-grade component began in 1973. The results of diagnostic tests administered to all seventh graders are used to write individualized educational…

Compared were three perceptual or language instructional programs with each other and with a direct prescriptive approach to reading problems of 112 learning disabled children (ages 6-10 years). (MH)

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 1,674 students in grades 9-12, about 70 percent of whom are black. The program began in 1971 and consists of communication classes, one-semester courses that provide self-pacing, success-oriented instruction in reading for 50 minutes each day. The content is organized into…

Reported is the evaluation of the Division of Special Education and Pupil Personnel Services (DSEPPS) 1975-76 Supplementary Reading Program for Handicapped Children which operated in 43 schools in New York City and served 1,578 children (5-16 years old) through two agencies--the Bureau for the Education of the Physically Handicapped (BEPH) and the…

One of the programs included in "Effective Reading Programs...," this program, begun in 1972, serves about 2,200 disadvantaged high school students, most of whom are black or Spanish-speaking, in three New York City high schools. The program's main goals are twofold--the early identification and remediation of reading disabilities…

Expanding on the original "Miscue Inventory," this book examines various miscue analysis procedures and discusses how they provide teachers with effective methods for understanding and measuring students' reading processes. The chapters are divided into three parts, focusing on miscue analysis and the reading process, miscue analysis…

Based on observations of all Title I reading teachers participating in the Program for Optional Assignment in District 20K, Brooklyn, New York, this report summarizes the program's policies, practices, and student achievement results. The program proposal called for assigning special reading teachers to work with second through ninth grade…

This paper discusses an investigation that compared college students' reading gains when using general or specific diagnosis. It reports that significant gains were made on many subskills of the Stanford Diagnostic Reading Test by the group that had the prescriptions developed as a result of a differential (specific) diagnosis and that there were…

A study was conducted to measure the effect and compare the results of developmental reading instruction for college students as prescribed from the specific results of a diagnostic reading test and a general, more traditionally used, survey reading test. The sample consisted of 226 students enrolled in different sections of a reading course…

The Federally funded programs discussed in this report were designed to help students with significant problems in either reading or mathematics achievement in the regular classrooms of District 22 in Brooklyn, New York. Both the math and reading programs operated on a "pullout" basis, utilizng a diagnostic teaching approach. The two…

The sequential program in the "Read On" series uses a diagnostic/prescriptive approach to teaching adults and teenagers who have little or no competence in basic reading skills. This introductory packet consists of a text and workbook that deal with adult themes ranging from grocery shopping to fishing and motorcycling and a teacher's guide…