The Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I program, Summer Reading Remediation for Incoming Pupils 1975, had two goals: to improve reading skills by supplying an intensive program of remediation in reading and to orient incoming students to their new school environment and its staff. Participating in the program were 2807 ninth and tenth grade students. They were both pre and post tested. All student participants were selected from Title I intermediate and junior high schools. They were identified as retarded in reading. They were volunteers. The program consisted of one 50 minute period per day, five days a week. Reading skills were also stressed during a daily reinforcing activities period (metal shop, typing, drafting, etc). Statistical analysis of gain scores as measured by the Metropolitan Achievement Test showed that students who were in the program for a maximum of 14 instruction days made significant gains, on the average, over one month's improvement. Some reasons for the large gains obtained were: the small class size (no more than 15 students per instructor), the diagnostic-prescriptive approach to reading remediation employed, the availability of a wide range of materials, and the fact that remediation in reading comprehension and vocabulary skills was integrated into other class activities (metal shop, typing, drafting, etc.). (Author/JM)