Analyzes the grammar of Black dialect to aid teachers in distinguishing errors from "normal" dialect shifts in oral reading.

Presents a personal account of ideas implemented in a social studies class to improve reading skills. (RB)

Second of a seven-part series recounting disatisfaction with traditional means of teaching literature to the disadvantaged. Also identifies three approaches which aim at reform. (RB)

Reports on the results of a questionnaire to find out to what extent remedial readers were read to as small children, concluding tentatively that the amount was low and calling for further research. (RB)

Describes how one school system designed a flexible training program for teaching reading in the content areas. (RB)

Describes a method for teaching reading in the content areas. (RB)

Provides a facetious look at the declining literacy rate by using a fairy-tale motif to ridicule some of the current practices that are intended to solve the reading problem in the nation's schools. (RB)

Lists four reasons for teaching reading in the secondary school. (MKM)

Suggests that content reading strategies should be validated by research. (MKM)

Reports on a study indicating that the relationship between the reading habits of adolescents and their parents is not a strong one. (MKM)

Reviews research, much of it conducted by the Center for the Study of Reading, on the role of schemata in the process of reading comprehension. (MKM)

Describes an informal reading inventory designed especially for secondary students which includes silent reading passages and an interest inventory. (MKM)