Describes a simulated grouping exercise, carried out at a learning-disability conference in Texas, which revealed that grouping practices in 1985 may be flexible enough to allow teachers to select students, teaching techniques, and instructional materials. (MB)

Gives a listing of articles with ideas and specific plans for developing parent involvement programs in reading. (MB)

Discusses the fact that, although publishers have acknowledged the problem of sex bias in textbooks in the United States, guidelines lack specifics, timetables, and procedures for monitoring content and enforcing compliance with the guidelines. (MB)

Provides a basis for designing an instructional program through an analysis of oral reading errors of second grade remedial readers in Hawaii. (MB)

Discusses informal reading inventories and suggests that teachers adjust the inventories to their own teaching practices to assure reflection of students' ability to perform in the classrooms. (MB)

Discusses a study which compared informal reading inventory formats and which found that the most accurate measurement involved silent reading followed by oral reading. (MB)

Reports on some of the advantages--language creativity, applied phonics, and integrated skills--for the South African Indian children learning to read and write with the Language Experience Approach. (MB)

Defines trade books, explores the possible uses of trade books in reading programs and the readability of trade books, and examines the vocabulary and rhetorical devices in trade books. (MB)

Concludes that self-correction is a positive indicator that the reader is comprehending. (RB)

Describes a means of diagnozing the reading miscues of elementary level readers. (RB)

Describes what students do during remedial reading instruction. (RB)

Describes changes occurring in preservice reading programs in schools of education during the last decade. (RB)