This manuscript focuses on neuroscience research that may have applicability for early childhood educators. Beginning with cautions about the usefulness of neurosciences, we offer reviews of several ideas that can inform the practice of early childhood educators. We begin with the understanding that reading is not innate, meaning that every brain…

Three practical ways to get the meaning from printed words quickly and efficiently are: (1) previewing; (2) skimming; and (3) clustering. Previewing and skimming are ways of getting through a lot of reading material without reading every word. Previewing is especially helpful for heavy reading like long articles, business reports, and nonfiction…

This article describes an instrument for diagnosing shorthand learning problems, with an outline of diagnostic activities and a student score sheet, and describes prescriptive activities to aid in solving or overcoming shorthand learning problems. Includes suggestions for improving reading rate, transcription, and dictation. (CT)

Suggests reading activities involving prose, poetry, fiction, and dramatic reading with expression for sixth-grade students who read at and above grade level. (RH)

Reviews the literature pertaining to the use of hypnosis in improving reading proficiency, describes a procedure teachers can use, and explains why they should use it. (FL)

Points out that the imitative, repeated, and impress methods of teaching reading each have certain strengths and weaknesses of which teachers should be aware. (Author/FL)

Explains how classroom cookery can be used in the elementary school language arts program. Emphasizes ways it can improve reading skills and provides a listing of cookbooks for children. (FL)

Examines the nature of comprehension, specifically in the area of reading, and offers some techniques for teaching comprehension. (FL)

Outlines the story of one first-grade student's successful struggle with learning to read. (MD)

Presents a technique for use with large groups of children to provide them with practice in fluent reading. (FL)

Describes a reading comprehension strategy that students can apply to history and social science texts and presents examples and guidelines for using this strategy in the classroom. The approach, called SQ3R, is designed to facilitate reading comprehension through surveying, questioning, reading, reciting, and reviewing. (KC)

Covers two major aspects of reading instruction for mildly mentally handicapped children in the regular classroom: a review of their reading characteristics and a presentation of questioning techniques useful for promoting their reading comprehension. (FL)

Thirty activity ideas for school and home use that reinforce reading skills. (CM)

The Pause, Prompt, and Praise method of tutor training has been used successfully to train older children and parents to provide remedial reading instruction. Tips for putting together a cross-age tutoring program are given. (MT)

Describing the SouthEastern Regional Vision for Education (SERVE) program and its mission to promote and support the continual improvement of educational opportunities for all learners in the Southeast, this paper discusses ways that teachers can decipher their students' progress in reading to help further develop students' reading skills. It is…