Many secondary students have mastered the skills necessary for proficient reading, but they dislike reading and avoid it at every opportunity. This article briefly describes 12 classroom-tested strategies for inducing these youngsters to read. (Author/SJL)

Contributors offer the following suggestions: use the language experience approach with adult beginning readers, remediate adolescent reading attitudes via parents, force students to think through self-propelled reading lessons, and establish a teacher workshop using the participants' content area textbooks. (HTH)

Describes a recreational reading program implemented at the Diagnostic Learning Center in Houston to increase home involvement and improve reading attitudes and habits of disabled readers. (MKM)

Shows that reading aloud to students can improve students' reading and writing skills, as well as their attitudes toward reading. (RL)

Describes six characteristics of mature readers and gives suggestions for helping students attain these characteristics. (DF)

Describes how an elementary teacher encouraged her students to read novels using cooperative group activities based on popular television shows. Students divided into groups, took different roles, read a novel, and made a presentation to the class. When they finished the novel, they selected a new activity. (SM)

This monograph was developed to provide elementary classroom teachers with suggestions for diagnosing several aspects of children's reading abilities and attitudes. The techniques described adhere to diagnostic guidelines set forth in the first part of the monograph and should be useful in regular classroom situations. The remainder of the…

This guide is designed to provide a variety of tools and techniques for planning: tools such as assessment instruments, teaching materials, record and report forms; techniques such as teaching methods for the various reading program objectives; organizational plans for the effective management of students and facilities; and evaluation strategies…

Based on information from the report, "Becoming a Nation of Readers," this article presents eight recommendations for parents to follow to provide encouragement to their children in reading. (MD)

Discusses results of survey of senior high school student attitudes toward reading for pleasure and suggests ways in which librarians, working with students, teachers, and parents, can integrate pleasure reading into curriculum and home; i.e., provide appealing materials, recommended bibliographies, networks for sharing information about books,…

Cites research suggesting that extensive reading is as effective as intensive reading in developing general reading ability and is more effective in promoting good attitudes among elementary and secondary school students toward reading. (MM)

Argues that an understanding of human motivation is an essential component of effective reading instruction. Proposes that teachers use a balance of intrinsic and extrinsic means of motivation to increase student involvement and learning. (FL)

Describes a teaching method that encourages student discussion and gives students an opportunity to express their opinions without fear of failure. (FL)

Describes Accelerated Reader (AR), a computer software program that promotes reading; discusses AR hardware requirements; explains how it is used for book selection and testing in schools; assesses the program's strengths and weaknesses; and describes how Grant and Madison Elementary Schools (Muscatine, Iowa) have used the program effectively.…

This 53-item annotated bibliography reviews the research on the value of reading aloud to students, the benefits of incorporating literature into the classroom, effective behaviors of parents and teachers, and creative ways of incorporating these techniques to create better and more interested readers. This bibliography was designed to be…