Success in teaching deaf pupils to read has not increased in decades, but new conceptualizations of literacy, clear understanding that deafness is a human condition and not a deficit, and recent research on how deaf families accomplish what schools do not all point to better ways of teaching deaf children to read. (46 references) (Author/CB)

There is now a renewed emphasis in the UK on short intensive interventions to tackle reading failure. In this paper we report on the effect of a programme based on a view that reading problems are associated with the inability of the learner to deal with speech at the level of individual speech sounds even though they may be fully competent in the…

Research on subject matter instruction across the 20th century (e.g., Stevens, 1912; Bellack, 1966; Hoetker & Ahlbrand; 1969; Gall, 1970; Langer, 1999; Mehan, 1979; Nystrand, 1997;) reveals a preponderance of teacher-directed lecture, recitation, and round-robin reading of text in place of instruction that focuses on reading-to-learn, thinking,…

Compiled for the beginner in the field of the history of reading, the list of resources presented in this paper may serve as a point of departure for someone interested in historical literature beyond Nila Banton Smith's "American Reading Instruction" and E.B. Huey's "Psychology and Pedagogy of Reading." Introductory information precedes the…

Noting that the growth of linguistics as a discipline has been accompanied by an awareness of the relevance of linguistic research to the study and teaching of reading, this paper examines four points at which linguists and reading researchers have met. The four areas reviewed are: (1) linguistic methods in teaching reading, (2) sociolinguistics…

Provides support, drawn from classroom experience and research, for the use of drama in the reading class. (ARH)

Compares the terminology used in three different computerized search services--CIJE, LLBA/Online, and PsycINFO--and shows how the choice of terminology used by them impedes retrieval. Suggests compensatory measures. (FL)

A case study of a proficient deaf student reading two versions of the same story (one syntactically more complex than the other) supports the notion that a firm semantic base enables processing at the syntactic as well as the semantic level. (Author/CL)

The repeated reading technique has been used successfully with children to build fluency and enhance comprehension and can be a viable instructional and remedial technique for adult beginning readers. (SK)

A framework developed to describe effective vocabulary instruction suggests that teaching methods can be described by the types of information they provide and the types of processing they require. (FL)

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)

Provides a microcomputer program that will calculate readability levels using Rix, a new, short readability formula. (FL)

Suggests practical applications of Piagetian theory to reading instruction. (FL)

Reviews the literature concerning oral reading fluency and offers six hypotheses about how beginning readers develop oral fluency and about strategies to help those who do not. (FL)

Examines existing reading theories and synthesizes them into a comprehensive new theory. (FL)