Offers reasons why teachers should focus on silent reading during instruction and use oral reading only for specific instructional purposes. (FL)

Offers suggestions for making newspaper activities part of the reading curriculum. (FL)

Presents an instructional strategy designed to teach inferential comprehension to primary grade children through the use of prior knowledge and prereading activities. (FL)

Presents an updated version of the Instant Word List, based on recent research into word frequencies. Explains why the instant words are important, the basis of the new list, and the uses of the list. (FL)

Describes how fourth- and fifth-grade students perform Shakespeare and improve their reading skills at the same time. (DD)

Outlines a parent-teaching program whereby the parents provided assistance on an exchange basis instead of working with their own children. (HOD)

Discusses the value of open-ended, individualized reading units and presents units on Aesop's fables and fairy tales. (JMB)

This concise document is in two parts. The first part discusses the "cut-apart" (a story that has been cut apart in enough sections so that every person in the class has a part to read), dealing with reasons for using cut-aparts, guidelines for their construction, when to use them, and ways to use them. The second part is a 15-item…

A monthly exchange of tips, projects, ideas and resources. (Editor)

Learning disabled students with lack of fluency in oral reading may be helped to experience a "feel" for fluency through any of six alternative reading techniques: (1) imitative reading, (2) repeated readings, (3) radio reading, (4) phrase reading, (5) paired reading, and (6) neurological impress method. (CL)

Deletion exercises, in which students are asked to supply words removed from texts, can be motivating for learning disabled students. The most common categories of information items that can be deleted include narrative, grammatical, conceptual, and logical elements. (CL)

Learning disabled students can perform tasks to understand seven "metagrammars," organizational structures in writing: (1) narration, (2) chronology, (3) location, (4) analogy, (5) origin, (6) taxonomy, and (7) description. Charts can sensitize students to the various types of organizations. (CL)

Assignment sheets that structure reading activities can be helpful in reading instruction for gifted children. The guides include activity suggestions before the reading (mostly vocabulary), during the reading (questions at the literal and inferential level), and after the reading (questions focusing on analysis, synthesis, and other higher mental…

Describes an anticipation guide, a graphic organizer, and a study guide used by secondary level teachers to teach reading comprehension. Explains how to adapt them for use with younger children. (FL)