Suggests standards for hiring reading specialists. (MKM)

Suggests that humor rates a place in the curriculum. Presents a bibliography of humorous books, categorized according to age and the developmental stage of humor. (JM)

Presents the second annual International Reading Association's annotated listing of 30 newly published trade books, selected by students in middle, junior, and senior high schools throughout the United States. Includes bibliographic data, information about paperback editions, and price information for each selection. (MM)

Provides directions to help teachers identify and articulate their assumptions about the teaching of reading. (Author)

Total school involvement implementing a variety of innovative approaches make for an exciting five week reading program. (RB)

Discusses the use of excerpts from "Boswell's Life of Johnson" with high school students and suggests that Boswell's scholarship reflects a form of literary research. (MKM)

Suggests using children's literature to help high school students understand the elements of literary form. (MKM)

Examines the nature of comprehension from a linguist's, researcher's and teacher's perspectives. Suggests teaching inferential comprehension keeping the reader's experience in mind. (MKM)

In spite of the fact that Shakespeare is difficult to read, as an adult the author thinks Shakespeare is worth reading for the message. (MKM)

Gives a list of guidelines for reading specialists to use in evaluating content area textbooks. (MKM)

Discusses several books that make the point that readers do and should read stories that are judged to be truly different from stories that are made up. Argues that the responsibility of reading teachers is to help young readers become thoughtfully engaged in their suspension of disbelief. (RS)

Focuses on how to teach general reference cartographic maps (maps that show feature's of the earth's surface easily recognizable by most people). Notes that the content of general reference maps can best be understood in terms of the structure of simple lists. (RS)

Provides an understanding of thematic maps and how they might be used to teach hypothesis testing. (RS)

Discusses a document structure called "nested lists" which allows an increased amount of information to be presented in a fixed amount of space while also maintaining its usability. (RS)

Argues that the use of abstract diagrams is an effective way to display sequential relationships of ideas in content area texts. (RS)