| Summary: | This article discusses innovations in reading instruction, including nongraded primary classes, team teaching, homogeneous grouping, linguistics and new types of readers being put into use. Although it is foolhardy to make any general statement about conventional reading programs, certainly most involve: Exposure to readiness activities; Use of experience charts; Encouragement of a set toward reading for meaning; Use of a developmental reading program; Practice with basic sight words; Development of word-recognition techniques. Ability grouping, developmental readers, supplementary books and cultivation of higher level skills such as skimming and interpretation are all normal features of reading programs. Essentially, however, traditional reading instruction is premised heavily on the sacredness of the word.
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