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Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Index to articles in volume 15.

Author Index

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Index to authors in volume 15.

Ten-Second Reviews, Betty L. Hagberg

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

No abstract available.

Round Robin, Dorothy E. Smith

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Letters to the Editor

Western News, July 10, 1975, Western Michigan University

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Reading In The Secondary School: The Role Of The Reading Resource Person In High School, Kenneth Vandermeulen

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

It is almost a sure bet that when someone graduates from a college or university with a number of credit hours in the teaching of reading, the hiring institution will attempt to employ this person as a remedial reading instructor. It is secondly a sure bet that the personnel director will recommend this graduate to a principal who has been beset by complaints about reading problems in all the content area classes. And, according to the typical history, the teachers in that high school will refer to the new reading teacher those students who are deep in academic difficulties.

We Suggest, Eleanor Buelke

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Hoy, James F. and Somer, John. 1974. The Language Experience

Echoes From The Field, Joe R. Chapel

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

No abstract available.

First-Aid For Troubled Readers, William S. O'Bruba

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

More children are experiencing difficulty in reading than in any other subject area in the elementary classroom. There are various degrees of a reading disability. A reading disability can range from a reader who is a grade or two below the level of his peers to a child who is a complete non-reader. In most cases, the concern of the elementary classroom teacher of reading is to see to it that the children are able to read well enough to perform the work of the specific class-level and to receive some enjoyment from their reading. If an ordinary classroom teacher …

Using Visual Highlighting To Teach Discriminations And Patterns, Richard Allington

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Every day in classrooms throughout the country one can find children experiencing visual discrimination problems. One can also find a massive amount of teaching effort directed towards correcting those same problems, too often with limited success. Recent research has raised many questions about the usefulness of the most popular commercially available training materials (i.e. Frostig, Kephart, Michigan Tracking). However, research has also identified useful techniques that classroom teachers might employ.

Teach Them Reading While You Teach Them Spanish…Or French…Or Any Other Subject, Maria Luisa Alvarez Harvey

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Teachers in general are well aware of the appalling reading deficiencies that many students bring to the classroom. This is true at the elementary, the secondary, and the college level. (1) In many cases, however, teachers of subject matter tend to refuse to accept responsibility for helping students to overcome their reading problems. (3) Such an attitude is, of course, understandable, as the limited time that students spend in any particular class is barely sufficient to "teach" them the subject itself. The additional responsibility of teaching reading may seem to many educators not only an unfair imposition, but an impossible …

The Mythology Of Reading: I--Sight Words, Patrick Groff

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

It is significant to note that the teaching of "sight" words was not one of the "persistent questions on beginning reading" which a carefully- selected group of experts recently chose to discuss (1). Indeed, from what one knows of this topic it would have been surprising to find the notion that young children should be first taught words as "wholes" being given critical examination in any such discussion. This is because the validity of instruction in "sight" words is accepted without question by almost all of today's experts in reading instruction.

Western News, July 3, 1975, Western Michigan University

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Disruptive Effect: A Phenomenon In Oral Reading, John W. Miller

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The major purpose of the present study is to examine the effect that an unknown word has on the oral reading of second grade children. Specifically, the study is concerned with the possible increased probability of error on words that are in close proximity to an unknown word. Additionally, the study examines the degree of disruptiveness created by unknown words in different grammatical positions, and the degree of disruptiveness of various types of unknown words.

A Comparative Study Of Attitudes Of First Grade Children In Two Reading Programs--Individualized And Basal, Ann Warren, E. Coston Frederick

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Many studies have been done comparing individualized and basal reading programs, but few have employed a valid attitude scale to evaluate attitudes toward reading at the primary level.

University Magaizine Vol. 1 No. 2, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1963-1980)

• Letters To The Editor • WMU China Trip • Campus Scenes • Entertainment • President's Club • Alumni News • Mentor-Mentee Program • Meet Charles Starring • Bronco Sports • Class Notes • In Memoriam

Reading Programs At The Community College Level, Dorothy J. Mcginnis

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

A letter from the editor

Reading Horizons Vol. 15, No. 4

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 15, issue 4.

Barriers To Knowledge For Practice: The Casework Effectiveness Dilemma, Alan Siman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Within the social work community there exists an acknowledged need for evaluating the effectiveness of casework services. This need developed and was sustained over time because of pressure exerted by the profession for internal accountability: understanding practice to improve intervention and insure professional growth. But more recently, evaluation endeavors arose from pressure to demonstrate external accountability: the need to prove the validity of casework services. This shift was produced by the change in casework financing from private voluntary contributions to public tax dollars. Claims made in the early 1960's that expansion of casework services could reduce existing, and prevent future, …

Therapists Or Helpers? Notes On A Youth-Type Free Clinic, Michael W. Agopian, Robert W. Dellinger, Gilbert Geis

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This paper builds upon a helpful typology of free clinics that divides then into four major kinds - the street, neighborhood, youth, and sponsored. While the typology tends to weave among characteristics of clientele, locale, and source of support in setting up its units, it nonetheless has the advantage of being based on an empirical assessment of the major forms of clinic operations through the country. Youth clinics - the type that particularly concerns us here - are defined as "generally organized by adults, service clubs, or official boards... because of their concern about drug use among high school students." …

The Welfare Calculus Allocations And Utilization Within The American States, John E. Tropman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Within the history of the American states, the attitude toward "welfare" had been fundamentally ambivalent. On the one hand there is a great thrust in this country toward charity, and toward helping the poor. Much is given each year to United Funds across the country (860 million in 1972-73), and the Christmas listing by the New York Times of the 100 "neediest cases" results in much spontaneous offering of aid. On the other hand, Americans are singularly suspicious of institutionalizing this impulse. These suspicions leave the United States behind other comparable countries in providing social welfare benefits. Indeed, so suspicious …

Program Research As Social Practice, Harris Chaiklin

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Excerpt from the full-text article:

What is done with the information developed by any researcher involves ethical and political considerations out of his control. In administrative research the sponsor has been able to dictate all conditions. We believe that this has contributed to the crisis in confidence about whether or not developing knowledge makes a difference in solving the problems of this world. It is time for professional societies to take more responsibility for the behavior of their members and to provide them with more protection.

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 2, No. 4 (Summer 1975)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• The Welfare Calculus: Allocations and Utilization Within The American States - JOHN E. TROPMAN, pp 416
• The Politics of Funding: Human Needs and Social Welfare - ROBERT F. KRONICK, pp 436
• The Socially Constructive Aspects of Outside Agency in Community Decision Making in a Rural Area - BARRY R. GORDON, DANIEL I. RUBENSTEIN, pp 451
• Evaluating Explorations and Demonstrations for Planning in Criminal Justice - LEONARD RUTMAN, pp 460
• Client Costs and Early Discontinuance from a Community-Basec Treatment Program - RONALD A. FELDMAN, MORTIMER GOODMAN, JOHNS. WODARSKI, WALLACE J. GINGERICH, pp 469
• Barriers to Knowledge for Practice: …

The Politics Of Funding: Human Needs And Social Welfare, Robert F. Kronick

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Sociological theory has provided two models that attempt to explain social power and decision making in America, the elite model (Mills) and the pluralist model. Mills saw power in America like particles dispersed in a triangle--with more and more power at the top, but more people at the base of the triangle. For Mills there was a powerful elite that ruled almost like a monarchy and decision making on all fronts was vested in them. Rebellion as utilized in Merton's paradigm would turn this triangle upside down in setting up new goals and new means, as well as distributing power …

The Socially Constructive Aspects Of Outside Agents In Community Decision-Making In A Rural Area, Barry R. Gordon, Daniel I. Rubenstein

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The "outside-change agent" is dangerous, something to be feared (based on past experiences, long since blurred by boredom and powerlessness) and not taken into the community. The outsider offers few, if any, tangible immediately useable resources -- only promises and fancy talk. Limited experience has taught the Appalachian that promises fade into misery and fancy talk to poverty. The self-fulfilling prophesy of inhospitality and disbelief in oneself, turn the Appalachian against the change agent and challenge the agent to leave the area out of self-felt persistent futility.

Evaluating Explorations And Demonstrations For Planning In Criminal Justice, Leonard Rutman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

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This paper has emphasized the importance of evaluative research as an integral component for both explorations and demonstrations, particularly for its contribution to planning in criminal justice. In so doing, an attempt has been made to differentiate the purposes and, consequently, the appropriate research strategies for evaluating these projects. The research of explorations aimed to facilitate the process of conceptualizing and operationalizing "innovative" services into testable demonstrations. To increase the validity and generalizability of individual demonstration projects, replications in different places under varying conditions are needed. According to Wholey, however, many small studies have been …

Client Costs And Early Discontinuance From A Community-Based Treatment Program, Ronald A. Feldman, Mortimer Goodman, John S. Wodarski, Wallace J. Gingerich

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

In social work circles client withdrawal from a treatment program commonly has been labeled as "discontinuance". Discontinuance rates have been inordinately high for both casework and group work endeavors, ranging in some instances to 59Z of all clients following the first interview (Aronson and Overall, 1966; Empey and Erickson, 1972; Goldstein, Heller, and Sechrest, 1966; Levinger, 1960; Overall and Aronson, 1963). Discontinuance represents an obvious and essential concern for social work for one overarching reason, to wit, treatment interventions cannot be implemented should the client(s) withdraw from the therapeutic relationship. Additionally, as some investigators have shown, discontinuance represents a focal …

Western News, June 26, 1975, Western Michigan University

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Western News, June 19, 1975, Western Michigan University

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Story highlights: Trustees Will Meet Tomorrow, Orientation Begins Sunday, Open House Tuesday for "Mrs. J", Gorski Named General Manager, Job Openings Listed, WMUK-FM to Broadcast Special Concert, Graduate Assistant Needed

Western News, June 12, 1975, Western Michigan University

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Story highlights: A Reminder for Academic Departments, Campus Calendar, Instructional Position Openings, Parking Lot Will be Repaved, Central Stores Will Close, Job Openings Listed, Parking Lot Will be Repaved, Final Chamber Concert Next Tuesday