Teaching Reading and Literature to the Disadvantaged.

advantaged has been referred to as culturally deprived, culturally different, socially disadvantaged, underprivileged, and slow learners by other people in other places. Precise definition is at this point nonexistent in the journals and in current research. There are, however, some descriptions and some attempts at definition which are more nearly precise and fruitful than others. A quick look at them here should bring the into clearer focus. Following examination of these descriptions, the disadvantaged student as conceived of in this series will be described. A relatively clear idea of the disadvantaged student should emerge at that point. In the professional literature, discussion and description of the disadvantaged falls into two general categories. First, the disadvantaged are described from social and psychological points of view. It is with this approach that terms such as culturally deprived, socially disadvantaged, underprivileged, and so on, are most frequently usedappearing again and again in the numerous works in the field. Central here are self-con-