Presents some additional thoughts on improving reading comprehension through the use of multiple-choice main idea reading exercises. (RB)

Discusses the problems associated with teaching developmental reading in a four-year college with an open enrollment policy and suggests a method to get the students interested. (RB)

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)

Describes the Salient Characteristics Analysis Technique (SCAT), used to assist students in comprehending metaphorical text. Describes a sample lesson using a Langston Hughes poem. (SR)

Describes cooperative learning activities that can be used in high school classrooms to focus prereading activities, to increase processing while reading, and to add punch to closing activities. (SR)

Describes how students in a history course for developing college readers assumed the investigatory role of a parliamentary committee to study the impact of industrialization in nineteenth-century Britain. (SR)

Lists 21 teacher tested ways of encouraging voluntary reading. Suggestions include role playing, teacher modeling, reading aloud, reading books from a series, critical reading, bringing books from home, and tape recording passages from books. (RS)

Describes the discussion continuum, a class activity that helps readers to interact with the text by taking a position that they will have to support. Notes that it promotes lively class discussion. (SR)