Proposes four guidelines to help educators evaluate vocabulary instruction: (1) instruction should help students relate new vocabulary to their background knowledge, (2) instruction should help students develop elaborated word knowledge, (3) instruction should provide for active student involvement, and (4) instruction should develop students'…

Specifies some of the different word learning tasks students face, describes different levels of word knowledge, notes three types of costs involved in instruction, and discusses the costs and benefits of some specific methods of vocabulary instruction. (HOD)

Describes a reading technique for college writing and a method of teaching word structue. (HOD)

Recognizing that top-level structure helps students find main ideas and recall important facts, this research review recommends teaching top-level structure from middle school through college. (HOD)

Describes a technique for training teachers to analyze textbooks that could be used either in teacher training classes or inservice workshops. (HOD)

Describes a metacognitive approach to improving vocabulary. The method trains students to establish a network of relationships among words and relate the words to personal experiences. (HOD)

Proposes that by focusing on comprehension and schema development rather than skill and drill, secondary and college level reading instructors can promote more meaningful reading. (HOD)

Reports on a study that examined whether students' comprehension and recall of an expository passage would improve if they were given information about the organization of the passage before they read it. (HOD)

Contributors offer a writing activity that can help students sharpen their awareness of how authors structure stories, and a scale that can serve as a guide to content area teachers for textbook selection. (HOD)

Reviews some theory and research related to metacognition and reading as well as classroom strategies such as generating good comprehension questions during reading, monitoring and resolving comprehension blocks, applying study procedures that increase comprehension and retrieval of information, and adhering to an author's text structure. (FL)

Discusses how to use literature to help children of alcoholics. Provides a list of appropriate books. (FL)

Develops a rationale for using traditional folklore as a resource for educating children about other people's cultural heritage and presents a case study of a unit that uses the Spider stories from the Ashanti people of West Africa. (HOD)

Suggests how teachers can make materials more comprehensible for students rather than relying on readability formulas for reading material selection. (AEA)

Surveys some of the research concerning underlining and notetaking and draws from it some suggestions for using the two study techniques in the classroom. (FL)

Provides a list of international cooperative programs available to teachers and students. (FL)