History of Reading News. Vol.XXIII No.1 (1999:Fall)

At the opening of the SIG session in San Diego, Greg Brooks of the National Foundation for Educational Research in England spoke about the large-scale experiment called the 'Non-oral method' carried out in Chicago from the late 1930s onwards, and about the need for some oral history research on it while people who went through it as pupils, and possibly even some teachers, are still with us. Relevant references can be found in his paper “The teaching of silent reading to beginners,” in Studies in the History of Reading, edited by G. Brooks and A. K. Pugh (Reading, UK: Centre for the Teaching of Reading, University of Reading, and UK Reading Association, (1984), 85-96. If that is difficult to obtain, he may be contacted at: NFER, The Mere, Upton Park, Slough SL1 2DQ, UK; or e-mail: g.brooks @nfer.ac.uk. You may visit the web site for the National Foundation for Educational Research at: http://www.nfer. ac.uk.