Graduating seniors will require a range of reading skills in college. Sherri Bell designs a senior English class to help students develop task commitment, comprehension, evaluation, fluency and speed.

Offers three explanations drawn from language and literature theories about what happens when people read: (1) receiving sense, (2) finding sense, and (3) making sense. (EL)

Describes a survey of 340 high school students to determine their interest and involvement in books and other media. (DD)

Through email partnerships or email exchanges with university, students increase confidence in reading and discussing literature. The act of composing email messages helps the student to articulate their thoughts.

Six types of reading experts are described who actually help to deprive students of the chance to learn to read. (JH)

The question, What should a reading program be for?, is best answered with reference to student needs rather than to analytically identified reading skills. (JH)

Many students assessed as being weak in reading comprehension have no reading disability, but are being asked to read material above their language and conceptual levels of competence. (DD)

Criticizes the application in public schools of the new "cultural literacy," which is restrictive and can lead to intellectual stagnation. Suggests a wider, more active concept of cultural literacy, which involves building new knowledge, accommodating new perspectives, and reading beyond the narrow, traditionally defined notions of our…

Suggests that slowing down the pace of reading instruction may help to make students lifetime readers. (DD)

Describes technique used to teach students to think; the teacher is the discussion catalyst rather than the purveyor or arbiter of information," and student response in group discussion increases. (Author/SP)

Four Project English studies, two in composition and two in reading, reflected the following research findings. The first study in composition found no correlation between knowledge of traditional grammar and performance in composition among college freshmen as measured by the STEP Essay Test and the Iowa Grammar Information Test, although the…

Since efforts to purify usage are fruitless, students should be taught to deal with the meanings in language as it is used.

Describes the activities used during an inservice program conducted by Philadelphia's Affective Education Program to help English and language arts teachers improve students' communication skills. (DD)