Drawn from an annual symposium held at the University of Guam to recognize and encourage scholarly activities of graduate students in the reading education department and to promote continued interdepartmental dialogue on the teaching of reading, the nine papers in this compilation deal with various approaches to reading instruction. Topics discussed in the papers are (1) individualized instruction, (2) creative thinking ability and its relationship to the reading comprehension and intelligence of fourth grade students, (3) the basal reader approach to beginning reading instruction, (4) the learning contract as a means of improving students' comprehension in the study of literature, (5) the language experience approach, (6) the effectiveness of the basal reader approach, (7) programed instruction, (8) the relationship of self-concept to individualized reading, and (9) the neurological correlates of reading and learning disabilities. (FL)