Discusses the reading program at Boys Republic High School (a California rehabilitation center for boys who are wards of the court), which is based on self-worth and individualized instruction. (JM)

Discusses various facets of student/teacher conferences, as seen in materials available in the ERIC system. (JM)

Discusses how to meet the individual needs of innercity students, how to handle skills materials, and how to arouse students' curiosity. (RB)

Describes a method of individualizing textbook reading assignments. (MKM)

A skills center can help students who are not able to demonstrate appropriate mastery level skills in reading and mathematics. The Girard school system (Kansas) has had two skills centers operating successfully since 1975. Individualized methods combined with group interaction are used to accommodate individuality and different learning styles.…

Tells how to set up an individualized reading center to help improve the reading of students in all the content areas. (RB)

The purpose of this study was to provide information relative to effects of the inclusion of an individualized reading program complemented by Communication Skills through Authorship (CSTA), developed at the University of Idaho, on the language and reading experience of reluctant readers at the secondary level. Students in the 9th grade,…

Visits in the Spring of 1972 to five school districts (Norfolk, Virginia; Texarkana, Arkansas; Gary, Indiana; Gilroy, California; and Grand Rapids, Michigan) that had implemented educational performance contracting programs during the 1970-71 school year are reported. Changes in the content and methods of instruction, measurement and evaluation,…

Offers a technique for teaching vocabulary that integrates the use of individual students' needs and experiences with the use of sentence context in determining specific situational word meanings. (FL)

This extensively annotated bibliography lists documents in the ERIC system dealing specifically with individual instruction for disadvantaged students. They are organized by instructional level, and within these sections reports dealing specifically with reading and language arts are listed separately. There is also a section of guidelines for…

This volume is intended for secondary content area classroom teachers. The booklet is made up of selected portions of articles from periodical literature dealing with secondary reading. These articles meet the practical requirements of content area teachers who want to teach reading but who are unsure of where to begin and what to do. The five…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 360 predominantly Spanish-speaking students from middle-income families living in a small city. The program was begun in 1973. The program strives to meet the reading needs of all students, to provide for growth in their reading achievement, and to improve their…

The Project RISE (Reading Individualized in Special Education) program undertaken by the Austin (Texas) Independent School District collected and analyzed data on the reading achievement of junior high school special education students. A random sample of 256 such students was given several measures of reading achievement. Demographic information…

One of the twelve exemplary programs summarized in the Introduction to Right to Read's "Effective Reading Programs: Summaries of 222 Selected Programs" (CS001934), this program serves the students of an inner-city junior high school and has as its main thrust training teachers in a diagnostic-prescriptive approach to teaching reading and…