1. In a method of teaching reading in which a student looks at or scans the words in a book or the like containing written or printed words while said words at least in the main are simultaneously being audibly reproduced from previously recorded audible recording means and heard by said student while he looks at or scans said words, the improvement which comprises providing the student with a book or the like having written or printed words, providing said student with means for writing words or statements, providing in the aforesaid recorded material on said audible recording means a plurality of predetermined spaced audible signals each at the end of each of a plurality of the predetermined audible reproductions of words in said book or the like, said audible signals being followed by audible or written instructions to said student to perform writing acts in relation to the audibly reproduced words on said audible recording means, said student, in following said instructions, writing on said means for writing words or statements a word or words or a statement or statements responsive to the aforesaid instructions previously given to said student within given predetermined time periods, after each of said plurality of instructions has been given to said student, whereby a writing is produced by said student which readily permits of being graded to enable the nature of the progress of the student in learning to read to be ascertained and evaluated by the teacher and the student.
3. The method of claim 1, in which the means provided to the student for writing said word or statement is a paper or like sheet bearing numbers adjacent which said words or statements are to be written by the student or students for subsequent examination to determine the correctness or incorrectness thereof for grading or like evaluation purposes.