Suggests ideas for teachers to involve parents in their children's reading development. (HTH)

Describes a study technique that encourages college students to develop their own strategies for improving their study skills. (MKM)

Presents a checklist of observable reading behavior that can be used to facilitate the organization of and communication about the classroom reading behavior of the child with a reading problem. (HOD)

Proposes some new approaches to teaching reading in the French classroom on the secondary level. (AM)

Describes how Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development can be used to teach literature. (DD)

Reading activities for gifted students are discussed. (CL)

Suggests three strategies to help students hear the sounds in words: developing phonemic awareness; explore sound/symbol relationships; and discover spelling patterns. This method is most effective if teachers continuously encourage students to think about how these strategies will help them as readers and writers. (SM)

Presents a rationale for instruction in critical reading (i.e., using a questioning attitude, logical analysis, and inference to judge the worth of what is read). Discuss factors involved in critical reading, including previous thinking, attitudes/prejudices, topical knowledge, and knowledge of critical reading skills. (DMM)

Presents four informal assessments that elementary teachers can use to compare students' spelling progress to typical midyear benchmarks. The assessments, which target K-6 students, emphasize alphabet recognition, phonemic awareness, attitude and consciousness about spelling, and spelling growth through writing samples. The paper includes a…

Developed for elementary classroom teachers and reading specialists, this book is designed to enliven, enrich, and reinforce all areas of reading instruction. The book provides hundreds of reproducible activities, games, and practical ideas to teach and reinforce basic reading skills. The book is organized into 10 monthly sections to fit the…

Presents some additional thoughts on improving reading comprehension through the use of multiple-choice main idea reading exercises. (RB)

Addressing issues on developmental education, instructional and learning methods, learning assistance and academic support, and reading and research, this issue of the Journal of College Reading and Learning includes the following articles: "Moving the Mountain to Mohammed: Study Skills Tutoring in the Residence Halls" (J. L. Rogers); "Memory…

An activities module for high school students of advanced French as a second language focuses on the production of a newspaper. The module includes a teacher's guide, copies of sample French and English language newspapers, suggestions for conducting the activities, a bibliography, a vocabulary list, and an evaluation questionnaire. The objectives…

Students can be taught to read Chinese more efficiently and accurately by using the specific capabilities of the right and left hemispheres of the brain. The right hemisphere is the site of image and pattern recognition, and students can be taught to use those capacities to process individual characters efficiently by watching for the element of…