This manuscript documents a year-long descriptive case study of preservice teachers specializing in reading. The objectives of this study were to (a) better understand the development of literacy beliefs and change processes in preservice teachers with reading specializations engaged in the final year of their field-based teacher education…

Many students lack early literacy skills because they have not had opportunities to listen to or talk about stories, engage in word play, read with family members, or view literacy behaviors modeled in the home. The Collaborative Storybook Reading Program presents a model for providing interactive reading experiences for at-risk kindergarten…

Reports a one-year study in a fourth-grade classroom to help students become able readers and instill in them a desire to read. States that the reading program included silent reading, choices of reading materials, sharing of literature, and appropriate adult modeling. Reports increases in reading rates, comprehension, vocabulary, and amount of…

Tests use of CD-ROM storybook programs' effects on preschool children's emergent literacy--73 Head Start four-year-olds, divided into experimental, control, and well-read-to control groups used CD-ROM programs for eight weeks. Indicates CD-ROM storybook programs may have a significant effect on emergent reading skills of children not well-read-to…

Investigates book selection strategies of fourth graders involved in a literature-based reading program. Examines types of information that guided the students' selections. Finds that the program was a motivating factor for students because their attitudes toward reading improved. Notes that to maximize reading growth, students should be reading…

Presents a case study that focuses on effects of an extensive reading program on an adult English language learner. Describes subject's reactions to the extensive reading approach using a qualitative framework. Discusses implications for the teaching of adult literacy. (RS)

Describes a study designed to compare a program for teaching reading skills in the content area (instituted at the Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction) with the regular type of content presentation and carried out with two heterogenous eighth grade social studies classes. (JM)

Let's Read is a reading program for preschool and early elementary school children with the dual purpose of teaching Negro children and training their mothers on how to provide intellectual stimulation for their children. (RB)

Explains the use of a parallel scheduling technique for reading instruction to provide varied instruction for different groups of students according to their needs. (MKM)

Describes ways that a library can be used as an integral part of a school reading program. (MKM)

Describes a survey of public school administrators designed to determine the extent and depth of their attitudes, knowledge and concepts about reading programs. (MKM)

States that beginning reading instruction must not be perceived as an either/or phenomenon, as either strong adherence to the code devoid of meaning, or the reverse. Teachers should teach the code and meaning at the same time. (MKM)

Suggests that the acronym "SCIENCE" may be used as a guide to evaluating seven factors that should be promoted by a reading program: success, curiosity, interest, enthusiasm, nurture, challenge, and enjoyment. (MKM)

Provides seven recommendations for an effective secondary reading program that will treat reading as a body of skills taught in all subject areas. (MKM)

Describes instruction that has proven effective in teaching Black children to read. (MKM)