Reading teachers must understand black culture and black dialect," and adapt their teaching strategies accordingly," i.e., allow dialect translations" of standard English texts. (Author/SP)

Article shows that learning to read is one of the first major challenges with which schools confront children. To the extent that a child does not also learn how to learn, or learn to develop a positive view of himself as a learner, learning to read has not been educative. (Author/JB)

First graders have demonstrated and identified preferred content in primary reading textbooks in response to single pairs of stories of five content factors." Statistical tables and extensive secondary literature included. (Author/SP)

Describes program combining language experience approach, formal readiness material, linguistic and phonetic readers, and identity" readers. (SP)

This comprehensive article discusses the following aspects of reading: the reading process, approaches to beginning reading, readability formulas, rate and flexibility, comprehension and critical reading, locational skills, visually handicapped, reading diagnosis and correction, magazines, and sources of further information. Also included is a…

Reviews a number of beginning reading materials that can be used in improving children's reading skills in a variety of content areas. (FL)

Argues that syllabication is a highly sophisticated skill requiring extensive knowledge of types of syllables, vowels, and consonants and their various graphic representations, and that syllabicating words in terms of sound patterns may give divisions that are more consistent with speech patterns. (FL)

Presents a case for not using a reading scheme in a reading program. Proposes instead a language experience approach in which children first read written transcriptions of their own oral language and then use a variety of published books. (JL)

Nineteen kindergarten children were pretested on readiness and blending tests and randomly assigned to a control or experimental group to determine if auditory blending skills were teachable and important in a beginning reading program. Following instruction in sequencing and blending sounds, the experimental group gained significantly in both…