Presents SCAIT (Select key words, Complete sentences, Accept final statements, Infer, and Think at the applied level), a study technique to develop high school students' higher comprehension skills when reading content area material. (SR)

Argues that teachers can facilitate improvement in students' comprehension and attitudes towards reading by (1) using paradigms (a tangible representation of elements of the novel related to students' interests); (2) using character charts (visual representations of characters from the novel); and (3) modeling the role of the reader as raconteur.…

Offers a two-tiered approach to fielding unusual responses that pop up during open-ended class discussions of literary texts. Describes how to prepare high school students to view reading comprehension as making meaning, and suggests a way to support students in taking responsibility for their actions as meaning makers. (SR)

Describes the rationale, advantages, and teaching procedures of the "talk through," a postreading strategy that helps high school and college students go beyond a simple retelling to transform, reorganize, and elaborate information and monitor their own understanding. (SR)

Describes a six-step comprehension framework that was used to help academically gifted ninth graders improve their reading comprehension and tackle difficult texts. (SR)

Uses "Romeo and Juliet" to show how high school teachers can teach complex literary texts in nontracked classrooms by building background knowledge and teaching self-monitoring strategies. Explains strategies such as text previews, story impressions, prereading plan, thinking aloud, self-questioning based on story grammar, and reciprocal…

Describes "rauding" (a combination of "reading" and "auding") as representative one of five basic reading processes that involves the comprehension of complete thoughts in sentences of textual material (the central process for understanding written or spoken language), requiring a certain minimal amount of time, and…

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 a Learning Activity Portfolio designed to help high school literature students discover and explore the novel "Dracula" by Bram Stoker. (SR)

Compares the effectiveness of a traditional vocabulary instruction unit with an alternative unit which applied the concepts of procedural and conditional knowledge to secondary students' word learning. Discusses key characteristics that made the alternative unit successful. (SR)

Describes having students draw a picture and write a paragraph of description at the end of each chapter of "The Lord of the Flies." Reports gains in reading comprehension, increased cooperation and enjoyment, and improved writing quality. (SR)

Describes an instructional technique called "creative graphing" in which students learn to reorder information visually, to interpret the graphic aids of their textbooks more easily, to highlight relationships that are not immediately apparent in the text, and to illuminate ideas for further exploration using charts, trees, stars,…