Describes an instruction approach for teaching external clues that context clue instruction occurs over many years at all grade levels and asserts that this can used for learning vocabulary. Defines external context clues as syntactic and semantic elements within and among sentences. (SRT)

Discusses the use of performance contracts to teach reading to secondary school students in classes classified as "corrective,""developmental," and "enrichment." (HOD)

Advances a set of five principles related to the development of independent learners and recommends the use of three types of activities effective in moving students toward greater independence in applying their ideas and skills. (NKA)

Readers share information on the use of the uninterrupted silent sustained reading method to change the reading attitudes of adult Native American students and on the use of taped books with high school remedial reading students. (MKM)

Proposes that secondary school literature teachers specify goals for students and teach students to ask themselves a series of broadly applicable questions to focus on literary content. (NKA)

Outlines five variations of the Directed Reading Thinking Activity that can help students become independent readers of narrative text. (NKA)