Out Damned Chart! Out, I Say!

The Snellen Chart which has not changed since it was designed in 1862 is the only visual screening test used in practically all schools. The chart consists of rows of letters that vary in size. The largest are at the top with each succeeding row containing letters that are measurably smaller. beside each row is a number indicating the distance from the chart that the average eye can identify letters of that size

Heads Up

Many have seen a pianist adjust and readjust a piano stool before beginning a performance, or, perhaps, have received instruction as to how to hold a golf club prior to the involved act of swinging at the golf ball. Any complicated skill, it seems, requires proper position if optimum results are to be attained. But few of us realize that proper position is just as essential when engaged in the complicated act of reading as it is when playing a piano or driving a golf ball

Professional Concerns: Better Reading through Parent Teaching Pools

In this contribution, Professor Schubert outlines a highly practical means for involving parents in reading instruction with youngsters. The popular press of late has drawn attention to the need for parents to become involved in helping with their children\u27s education. Such articles as Parents Are the Key, which appeared in U.S. News and World Report) September 12, 1977, and How to Help Your Kids in School, which appeared in Better Homes and Gardens) November, 1977, have received considerable attention. Professional journals have also scrutinized the desirability of involving parents as much as possible as adjuncts in the learning process

Improving reading in the elementary school: an handbook emphasizing individualized correction

vi, 186 hlm.; 21 c

Improving the reading program, 3rd.ed/ Schubert

vii, 368 hal.; 23 cm