Allowing a fifth grader who caused problems in regular classrooms to exert control over some learning activities led to the student's involvement in the activities, his commitment to their completion, and the development of a situation that made learning to read desirable and acceptable to him. (PGD)

Describes how a content area reading program was introduced to two country high schools and the steps taken to encourage its dissemination into neighboring schools. (RBW)

No longer little children, but not yet teenagers, tweens are beginning to see themselves as autonomous while still struggling to understand where they fit in. It can also be an awkward time for teachers who cherish the hilarious and poignant personalities of tween writers, but feel pressured by a new emphasis on testing in the intermediate grades.…

Describes using the jigsaw reading strategy (in an 11th-grade English classroom) with a literary classic: Henry David Thoreau's "Walden." (SR)

Describes SQ10R, a system of reading hints and strategies similar to SQ3R (that is, survey, question, read, recite, and review). Suggests that SQ10R may be more helpful to developmental students. Briefly describes the system's 12 elements: survey, question, read, reflect, review, repeat, rethink, reintegrate, rehash, renote, rehearse, and reread.…

Considers how a teacher can help students become avid readers. Describes how cultivating a culture of reading in ninth-grade English has increased student interest and renewed the author's teaching. Suggests that all students are readers, but that the conditions of reading change from person to person. (SG)

Notes that the Title I Program at the Upper Darby School District (located on the western boarder of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) created the T.O.A.S.T. (Title One After School Tutorial) program from the need for extended learning time and opportunities to assist struggling young readers. Concludes that students increased their sight word…

Describes an analogy approach to word identification which was used for two years in a resource room. Concludes with an adaptation of the compare/contrast approach for teaching decoding to other children who do not exhibit reading problems. (MG)

Not all content teaching is necessarily good second language teaching. The typically used question/answer sequence could be replaced with a more effective use of carefully contrived activities that bring into the classroom authentic language in its full functional range. (Author/CB)

A Texas elementary school is testing Edison's claim that a private company can manage a public school better and more profitably than a public school district working alone. Educators and parents already see improvements, but overenrollment has caused class size, scheduling, and computer shortage problems. Competition and payment problems could…

Librarians can play a major role in the development of Holocaust literature programs for libraries and classrooms through reading strategies, including annotation, shared inquiry, and interpretive discussion. Librarians and students use writing journals to articulate and exchange questions, comments, and feelings about the books they have read.…

Describes the development and content of an interactive introduction to a foreign literature course designed to teach students literary analysis skills and refine their oral communication skills, through such course aspects as text selection criteria, pre- and postreading strategies, literary interpretation, and student analysis and discussion of…

Describes the Junior Great Books program used by many Catholic schools to improve reading and critical thinking skills, as well as stir students' interest in reading. Explains the shared inquiry method of learning utilized to stimulate discussion about excellent literature. Offers examples of the ways in which the program operates at six different…

Proposes the use of key visuals as a technique to prepare students to read content text. Based on a specific language and content conceptual framework, the use of clear visuals as a prereading strategy acknowledges the role of schema theory in the reading process. (34 references) (JL)

Describes an instructional process used in a college developmental reading class (as well as with upper-level classes) that promotes the development of active, engaged readers who constructed meaning through social interaction with fellow classmates. Describes how this strategy was applied to segments of "Night" by Elie Wiesel. (SR)