Drawn from presentations at the 1977 meeting of the North Central Reading Association, this yearbook includes sections on programs and centers; professional training; clinical problems and methods; research; the Roger Pepper Research Award presentation; and the invitational address. Papers include: "Use of Galvanic Skin Response, Heart Rate, Respiration Rate, Bett's Criteria, and Self-Rating Scales to Compare College Students' Degrees of Frustration on Informal Reading Inventories" (Lindasue Linn Williams); "Meeting the Educational Challenge of 'Open Admissions' in Community Colleges" (Grace A. Millas); "Reading for Adults: An L.R.C. Perspective" (Elaine E. Cherney); "The Use of Video Tape to Reach Criterion Performance: A Self-Shaping Teacher Training Procedure" (Marylen S. Oberman and others); "Training Tutors to Teach Students Reading Strategies in the Content Areas" (Carole M. Johnson); "Using Low Cost Micro-Computers to Train Secondary Teachers in Reading" (Michael L. Kamil and Franz J. Frederick); "Teaching Reading in the ESL Classroom" (Susan Kenyon Herbert); "The Use of the Cloze Technique as a Seminal Cognitive Process" (Bruce A. Lloyd and Rosalie C. Lloyd); "Specific Procedures for Reading Rate Improvement" (Walter J. Lamberg and Rowena Wilhelm); "Teaching Vocabulary for Memory through Word Relationships" (James E. Coomber and Howard Peet); "Writer and Reader as Complementary Roles" (Barry M. Kroll); "De-Mystifying the Reading Process" (Judith O. Best and Nell C. Gillis); "Can College Students Improve Reading Skills in an Individualized, Self-Paced Reading Course?" (Michael Arrington); "A Review of Significant Studies with High Risk Students: Remediation for College Students" (Mark E. Thompson); and "Yesterday's Students, Tomorrow's Challenge" (Joseph A. Fisher). Appendixes include cumulative author and topical indexes for volumes 1 through 9. (RS)