Argues that for tribe members in Thailand's primitive mountain areas, learning to read can provide an entirely new outlook on life. (RB)

Reviews the literature in the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) on the effective reading programs as identified by the American Institute for Research (AIR). (RB)

Describes the Selective Reading Guide-O-Rama which is designed to help students in reading selectively and in distinguishing key ideas from supportive evidence and major points from minor points. (RB)

Tells content reading teachers some of the pitfalls to avoid and some of the new approaches to take in helping students benefit from reading. (RB)

Offers a wide variety of cues that students can use to improve their reading skills at the secondary level. (RB)

Presents ten tips to foster legislative involvement by state reading councils for the purpose of guiding teachers in their efforts to improve reading through political means. (RB)

Describes how Florida's reading professionals entered the legislative halls and prevailed, and provides a list of problems that other reading professionals might avoid in their political efforts to influence legislation. (RB)

An on-site description attempts to offer ideas that can be considered, adapted, and improved upon for reading programs. (RB)

Presents a six-step reading/study skills strategy which helps students learn how to approach a new text. (SR)

Discusses comments about and responses to an article on semiotics by Donald J. Cunningham in the June 1992 issue of the "Educational Psychology Review." Discusses the semiotic method of juxtaposition, juxtaposing a menace being posed to reading teachers with the menace experienced in W. W. Jacobs' classic ghost story "The Monkey's Paw." (SR)

Suggests that three dimensions should be considered by teachers who wish to develop the vocabulary development process of the students. (RB)

Questions the validity of the Nelson-Denny Reading Test to measure growth in a rapid reading course for adults. (AEA)