Describes a recently developed vision screening technique that can be used by school personnel. Reports on a study that found the technique to be effective and efficient for use in vision screening programs. (FL)

Provides a brief overview of the Educational Testing Service's 1971 survey of compensatory reading instruction in the United States. (FL)

Describes a project that used task cards to give students meaningful and interesting practice in using location skills in the content area of science. (FL)

Describes a study that investigated the impact of special education legislation on remedial reading programs in Massachusetts. Concludes that personnel use in these programs was influenced by each superintendent's beliefs about eligibility of a program for state funding. Offers suggestions to remedy this situation. (FL)

Contends that the "basics" in reading are not skills but concepts the learner must acquire, and that the learner's role is central to this teaching philosophy. (FL)

Reviews the reading sections of the Metropolitan Achievement Tests and offers recommendations for their use. (FL)

Contains suggestions from six contributors, including the use of parents as an audience for beginning readers; outdoor activities to motivate readers; word order recognition exercise; a books-by-mail library service for rural students; using remedial students to read to younger children; and a language arts/social studies project. (FL)

Defines horizontal reading as providing children with more reading experiences and practice at the level they have just completed rather than moving them immediately to the next level. Describes two commercially prepared programs that make horizontal reading easier to implement and more closely correlated with the lead basal instruction. (FL)

Describes ERIC documents pertaining to the role of parents in preparing their children to read and the ways in which they can help shape and strengthen a school's reading program. (FL)

Describes the Kamehameha Early Education Program (KEEP) in Honolulu, Hawaii. Terms it an exceptional reading program illustrating how certain dynamics of social interaction may be essential for reading achievement. (FL)

A parable showing how teachers in the past and the present have attempted various methods of teaching reading and how no method has succeeded in making readers of all pupils. (GT)

Presents a journalist's views on the relationship between the media and the schools, including the role of the media in covering education, the types of educational news the media are likely to report, and schools' responsibilities in cooperating with the media. (GT)

Results of a study conducted with first-grade Mexican American children indicate that direct reading instruction to precise behavioral objectives is more effective than teaching to Mexican American children's supposed "cultural learning styles" as recommended by Manuel Ramirez and Alfredo Castaneda in 1974. (GT)

Results of a New Zealand survey showed that parents were interested in their children's reading progress but were not aware of the teaching strategies they could use to reinforce school learning. (GT)

Discusses experiments that provide information about the reading processes involved in mapping phonemes onto alphabetic symbols; suggests several techniques for helping children both to differentiate among the short vowel sounds and to associate sound and symbol. Focuses on the needs of beginning readers who are experiencing reading difficulties.…