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Riggs Institute Instructional Materials Catalog Page 3
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You Can Prevent or Correct Learning Disorders, Mosse formerly: The Complete Handbook of Children's Reading Disorders 2-vol. hb set $69.95
1 volume Riggs pb |
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Dr. Hilde L. Mosse, head psychiatrist for the
NYC Board of Education in the 60's and 70's discovered the WRTR, an Orton-based
program taught by Oma Riggs in Spanish Harlem. This 714-page work chronicles her
experience and amazing success in teaching 1000 reading-disabled and psychologically
disturbed student patients to read, write and spell English, which, in turn, solved
many of their mental health problems.
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For teachers, parents,
reading specialists, anyone interested in dealing with the problems of the
"learning disordered" children and adults in our society.
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The Reading Acts Test, Edited by McCulloch, Madson WP disk ed. $15.00 |
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From her first chapter; Mosse's simple but thorough
approach to finding out what children know or do not know about the sub-skills which
permit fluent reading & writing of English, rather than what may be wrong with
them.
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Classroom & remedial teachers, clinicians, reading specialists,therapists principals |
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Reading, Writing & Speech Problems in Children and Selected Papers, Samuel T. Orton $58.25 |
 Forward Table of Contents |
A classic 1937 text about the failure of reading,
writing and spelling instruction in the US, its probable causes and what one early
and innovative neuroscientist did about it.
From our earliest brain researcher -- still ahead of our contemporary neuroscientists
in finding practical solution. His research
put him almost a century ahead and without he use of hi-tech brain scanning equipment
by which his theories can and should still be validated.
Dr. Samuel T. Orton did not have a "peer group" any more than Einstein,
Franklin or Edison did.
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For serious students of the neurological, linguistic,
and pedagological basis for the proliferation of
learning disorders in children.
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$13.50 |
 Excerpt from Retarding America |
Federal research report from the Office of Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the National Institute of Justice.
An important and chilling contemporary work revealing the link between academic
failure, delinquent/criminal behavior and recidivism.
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Anyone interested in the cause and effect of
academic neglect stemming from "learning style" discrimination against
students
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$9.50 |
 Excerpt from Becoming a Nation of Readers |
1985 compilation of 40-60 years of reading research;
12 pages support explicit phonics over implicit phonics.
Balance supports many features of whole language programs, the lack of basic
skills not being among them.
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For anyone interested in meaningful
efforts and restructuring educational practice in teaching the language arts
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Critique of BNR McCulloch FREE |
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The 6-page phonics chapter reveals giant gaps
and misunderstandings regarding the role of phonics in reading instruction and the available research on this subject.
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$14.00 |
 Table of Contents |
A collection of nine research papers advocating
the possibility of combining phonics with
some aspects of whole language instruction.
A distinguished panel of researchers including Marilyn Adams, Jeanne Chall, Sylvia
Richardson, Joanna Williams, etc. With the
exception of Dr. Orton's own book, we think it the most useful
Orton Society publication.
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Private Sector Alternatives for Preventing Reading Failure, Groff $15.90 |
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1987 National Advisory Council on Educational Research & Improvement report to identify private sector profit and nonprofit teacher in-service agencies "which have a proven track record of helping teachers to implement recommended changes in reading instruction. The Riggs Institute is included in the 33 organizations named and profiled. Discusses monopoly as described in The Great American Reading Machine by David Yarington. Knowing some of the history of how we arrived at the point of producing 94 million functionally illiterate US adults is helpful for future decision making at several levels. |
Legislators, all in textbook and college of education decision making positions. |
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Preventing Reading Failure: An Examination of the Myths of Reading Instruction, Groff $19.50 |
1987 National Institute of Education report to debunk the "myths" of reading instruction -- those long held "reading establishment" beliefs that prevent reading reform from taking place. This book has an incredibly reliable bibliography citing most of the nation's best researchers - see the longer version for the Table of Contents |
Legislators at all levels, textbook and college
of education decision makers, all board members and school administrators who want
to understand the problem before
designing a cure.
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What Works: Research About Teaching and Learning,
2nd Edition, Chester Finn, US DOE
$7.50 |
1987 federal research synthesis on "what
really works" in teaching children.
The first edition contained 41 research findings written in "plain" English;
this book is an updated and expanded version of the original.
These books cover a broad range of subjects for the home, the classroom and
school (see expanded pages for the Table of Contents.
5 to 7 research citations for each of the 41 findings.
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First Lessons; A Report on Elementary Education,
Wm. Bennett, Secretary, US DOE $7.50 |
1986 federal "blueprint" about how
to operate an elementary school; this book corrected an oversight dating from 1953. No major national report had examined the
state of elementary education or set out a blueprint for reform efforts; this was
a major contribution, which sadly, hasn't had the widespread distribution and recognition
it might have had.
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