Presents teaching ideas using the classified advertising sections of newspapers, noting that the ability to decipher classifieds ads is an important life skill. (SKC)

Discusses the revised Extended Anticipation Guide, which is designed to reveal students' misconceptions about topic and to help students to understand exposition. (PRA)

Presents a six-step reading/study skills strategy which helps students learn how to approach a new text. (SR)

Presents an inventory intended to make junior high through college students think about what they do while reading and help them become aware of metacognitive strategies. Suggests that the inventory may provide teachers with at least some basic ideas of what their students know with respect to achieving higher levels of comprehension. (RS)

Discusses the use of a "reflection guide" designed to help students increase their comprehension and recall of a textbook chapter. Notes that the guide is especially useful if students are asked to read a chapter to obtain background for a class discussion. Includes a sample completed reflection guide. (RS)

Presents a technique using self-image psychology that enables remedial students to improve their reading and vocabulary skills as they improve their attitudes about their own abilities. (ARH)

Suggests that using the scientific method's five steps--recognize the problem, collect facts, form hypotheses, test hypotheses, form a conclusion--can help teachers of any subject help their students read with deeper understanding. (FL)

Examines the skills readers bring to the reading act, the print requirements of social studies textbooks, why breakdowns in learning sometimes occur during reader interactions with text, and possible solutions. (SR)

Describes a six-step comprehension framework that was used to help academically gifted ninth graders improve their reading comprehension and tackle difficult texts. (SR)

Relates an experiment in which relaxation techniques and visual image training enhanced poor readers' comprehension and literal recall of narrative prose. (HOD)

Discusses the types and functions of graphic displays found in textbooks, whether they facilitate learning, how well students read graphic displays, and what classroom teachers can do to help students read and interpret graphic displays. (SR)

Describes a classroom-based research project that investigated how talking and writing about the novel "Sarah, Plain and Tall" (by Patricia MacLachlan) and rereading parts as a group helped four deaf teenagers build meaning and broaden their understanding of the story. (SR)

Describes how creative mapping (a pictorial version of semantic mapping) helps students organize or recognize organization in expository texts. (SR)

Discusses the rationale and technique for using subtitled foreign films with an integrated language approach in a developmental college reading class. Reports student attitudes. Shows that the subtitled films motivated students to read, gave them good time on task, and improved their knowledge of other cultures and eras. (SR)

Offers suggestions for using the newspaper to help learning disabled students improve their reading, language arts, and mathematics skills. (ARH)