With the advent of "Response to Intervention" there has been emphasis on preventing reading disabilities. This study examined the effectiveness of a classroom teacher Tier II intervention for struggling readers in kindergarten and first grade called the Targeted Reading Intervention. Three rural schools were randomly assigned to…

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…

Provides a sample debate which sets forth some major assumptions of two reading programs--a prescriptive reading inventory approach and an environmental reading approach. (HOD)

Conquest is a laboratory project for first-grade repeaters and for students in second grade through sixth grade who have difficulty in reading. It features an individualized, eclectic approach made possible by low student/teacher ratios and by a wide variety of materials and equipment. Instructional and diagnostic procedures are highly structured,…

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…

Even within the common goal of teaching youth to read, teachers in inner-city secondary schools should be concerned with variation and differentiation in program emphasis for a specific school. An all-school reading survey might be used to determine student ability, achievement, and interests and to give direction in establishing a program suited…