Advises reading professionals on how to approach legal testimony as an expert witness. (AEA)

Suggests standards for hiring reading specialists. (MKM)

Gives a list of guidelines for reading specialists to use in evaluating content area textbooks. (MKM)

Discusses the uses of surveys, notes the types of survey instruments available, and provides examples of survey instruments to assess teacher competencies and student reading behavior. Suggests that surveys are especially useful for providing information for two sections of grant applications: the needs assessment and comprehensive planning…

Suggests free or inexpensive resources available for inservice reading programs. (DD)

Suggests that secondary school reading specialists desiring to establish a school-based, schoolwide reading program form a reading committee composed of content area teachers who propose ideas and help implement them. (MKM)

Discusses reading specialists' responsibilities concerning children's vision problems. (MKM)

This handbook, prepared by teachers enrolled in the 1992 summer session of Reading 508 at Northeast Louisiana State University (Monroe, Louisiana) under the guidance of Dr. Harry Miller, discusses (in separate sections) reading readiness, word recognition, vocabulary development, and reading comprehension. Each section of the book also presents…

Article investigated the learning activities best suited to today's pupil and listed a number of creative reading approaches for children. (Author/RK)

Discusses concept learning in the content areas, focusing on a system for integrating vocabulary into cognitive teaching goals. (AEA)

Presents an annotated checklist that reading specialists can distribute to all teachers describing services that the reading specialist can perform. (MKM)

A reading specialist who worked in a high-poverty urban elementary school that initially did not have an exemplary reading program provides seven lessons that can serve as a guidepost for other reading specialists. Several approaches that led to improved reading achievement of upper elementary school children are described. The seven lessons, when…

Accessible and user-friendly, this volume presents evidence-based practices for integrating language and literacy knowledge to enhance children's learning in today's standards-based classrooms. While grounded in theory and research, the book focuses on day-to-day concerns in instruction and intervention, identifying models for effective…

Many state certification recommendations in reading education do not clearly define "certification." This produces a number of questions, among them the following: (1) Do reading teachers who are likely to teach reading at either the secondary or elementary level need a developmental course at both levels? (2) Should there be discrete courses in…

Attention deficit disorder (ADD) is examined from the standpoint of teaching reading, and strategies are offered for teaching youngsters who are having difficulty reading due to ADD. Examples of students and scenarios are included. A definition of ADD is presented, along with symptoms that are consistent with inattention and disorganization that…