Describes ways to evaluate and enhance students' self-esteem through the reading program. (RB)

Reviews some theory and research related to metacognition and reading as well as classroom strategies such as generating good comprehension questions during reading, monitoring and resolving comprehension blocks, applying study procedures that increase comprehension and retrieval of information, and adhering to an author's text structure. (FL)

Presents methods to stimulate students to use their background knowledge in reading content area texts. Offers a technique to teach students common text structures by having them write to a model. (FL)

Children are faced with an increased potential for academic failure due to less stable family lives and career-oriented parents. Cross-cultural reading instruction practices and programs can provide insights that could prevent such failure for children at-risk. One such program is the reading maintenance program used in Denmark, wherein groups of…