Describes an investigation that showed that abbreviations in classified ads are difficult to comprehend and suggests that instruction be given in understanding abbreviations as a real life reading skill. (MKM)

Provides suggestions from contributors on building vocabulary, using newspapers in instruction, and providing a news bulletin for content area instructors. (MKM)

Explores educational litigation dealing with grouping practices, the suitability of instructional programs, and accountability for pupil progress. (DD)

Suggests free or inexpensive resources available for inservice reading programs. (DD)

Offers exercises to assist poor readers as well as good readers in using the dictionary. (DD)

Concludes that there are significant differences in the attitudes of secondary teachers toward teaching reading in content classrooms, with English teachers scoring "positive" on the instrument used, and mathematics, science, and social studies teachers scoring "average." (DD)

Lists books that correspond to Erikson's fifth stage of development--sense of identity--that can be used by teenagers to aid understanding of themselves.

Suggests an organizational plan for the reading resource room that would provide more sustained interaction between teacher and students than commonly occurs and that would allow optimal use of materials. (DD)

This article, (presented by the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association) discusses a position statement adopted in April 1979, which states, in part, that no single measure or method of assessment of minimum competencies should ever be the sole criterion for graduation or promotion of a student. (DD)

Attempts to determine whether the Raygor graph produces readability estimates compatible with estimates derived from the Fry graph, whether the Raygor graph is less time-consuming, and whether it lends itself to greater computational accuracy. (DD)

Presents a public service advertisement by the International Paper Company on how to write a business letter and discusses the ad campaign to improve students' literacy. (DD)

Identifies four useful steps to the reading and understanding of metaphors in poetry. (HOD)

Notes that the third edition of the Burns/Roe Informal Reading Inventory takes less time to administer. Reports an absence of data on the inventory's reliability. Concludes that if used to study, evaluate, or diagnose reading behaviors, the Burns and Roe IRI could be a popular and valuable tool. (RS)

Discusses Janice A. Radway's "Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy and Popular Literature." Argues that reading educators should consider a more general premise embodied in the book: in order to understand the appeal (or lack of it) of certain books, then educators first need to understand what the books are for the students who read them. (RS)

Describes several patterned language books useful in helping students overcome writing apprehension by supplying them with the form, so that all they have to do is provide the creative ideas. (RS)