Suggests guidelines for hiring reading teachers. Identifies four qualities to look for in prospective reading teachers: knowledge base; interpersonal skills and attitudes; teaching ability; and organization and management skills. (RS)

Discusses the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement's reading literacy study in Finland. Shows that, although language-minority students are often expected to have lower achievement in school, students from Swedish-speaking homes in Finland scored almost as well as their Finnish-speaking counterparts on extensive…

Offers brief annotations of the 32 books (all trade books published in 1991) chosen with input from teenagers for the 1993 Young Adults' Choices list. (SR)

Contains suggestions for making graduate and inservice reading instruction relevant to modern-day teaching situations. (RB)

Suggests that science fiction can be used as a vehicle for teaching a broad range of content subjects incorporating an interdisciplinary approach. (RB)

Contains a selected, annotated bibliography of resources on adolescent literature useful to English and reading teachers. (RB)

Describes how television in Norway provides reading experiences for viewers on many levels. (RB)

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

Argues that reading is an essential means of acquiring knowledge, understanding, ideas, feelings, attitudes, expectations, and values. (RB)

Describes how to construct reading comprehension test questions that are unanswerable without careful reading of an accompanying passage and provides examples of the principles explained. (RB)

Presents a philosophical discussion on two approaches to teaching literature, comparing the rational, textual centered approach to the more subjective, experience oriented method. (RB)

Describes a teaching method which included using the newspaper as part of the instructional materials in a secondary remedial reading class. (RB)

Describes the purposes and programs of the national Right to Read effort. (RB)

Concludes that junior novels have changed in form and content, are more difficult to read, and deal with mature topics. (RB)