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Show jtEADING COURSE , On Tuesday, March 29. fecondary teachers from the Qrand County Middle School nd High School began a fourse titled Improvement of Reading. The purpose of taking this dass is to aid teachers in giving some reading instruction instruc-tion to students in each of their individual classes. . in a reading survey taken last year in Utah, it was found that pronunciation of words by students in Utah was above a national average, but their comprehension was low. Therefore, last spring the Grand County School District decided to see how they could help students attain a better comprehension ability in this district. To get an idea of what the program could be 1 like, several adminstrators i and teaching personnel visited visit-ed West Lake Junior High last year, where they saw how each individual class incorporated incorpor-ated the program into its ! curriculum. Dr. Bill Strong, from Utah State University, will be teaching the class every Tuesday Tues-day through May 17. He will be helping teachers in setting up plans, methods, and procedures pro-cedures and giving them reading read-ing skill instructions to use in each of their classes. In September and October Iof 1977 there will be two more Mlow-up sessions. |