Explains ways that juvenile science fiction has changed and improved during the last decade. Includes a bibliography of titles popular with children and adolescents. (MKM)

Describes the test, The Degrees of Reading Power, developed by the New York State Education Department for use as a formalized "informal reading inventory." (MKM)

Argues that as reading is taught increasingly as a tool, the delight that comes from personal literacy is becoming obscured. Argues that bringing personal values and experiences to poetry is an important way for students to discover the meaning of a poem. Describes how students can "map" their reading journey. (RS)

Reviews secondary school reading research in reading comprehension, vocabulary development, reading interests and habits, textbooks, teaching procedures, and reading in content areas published between 1959 and 1988 in Nigeria. Looks at Nigerian research results from a global perspective. Suggests areas for future research. (RS)

Reviews literature on freewriting, personal writing, and the at-risk secondary student. Argues that personal writing, imaginative writing, and freewriting are vehicles for self-expression, discovery, and evaluation of at-risk students' lives. (RS)

Argues that newspapers provide a rich source of material to build listening, speaking, writing, spelling, and grammar skills. Describes 13 class activities using newspapers to work on punctuation, subject-verb agreement, identifying parts of speech, debating current issues, spelling, and notetaking skills. (RS)

Describes the Summer Training and Education Program (STEP) designed to reduce summer learning losses, improve reading and math skills, increase graduation rates, and reduce the incidence of teen parenthood. Reports that STEP succeeds in slowing, and in many cases stopping, summer learning losses of at-risk students. (RS)

Presents a dynamic reading assessment procedure (DAP). Argues that the procedure is particularly valuable for use with at-risk learners because both cognitive and affective variables are assessed. Notes that the readers' strategy use and knowledge, as well as their adaptability and attitude toward reading instruction, can be determined. (RS)

Describes seven strategies that teachers of all grade levels and disciplines can use to improve their effectiveness in teaching students of diverse cultural backgrounds. (SR)

Describes an effective literature circle program from Australia that widens secondary school students' horizons. Suggests that they bond together as a community of readers as they develop new reading strategies and a positive attitude about reading. (SR)

Discusses writing projects, studies of implementation and teacher change, and mirrors of change which point to the state of the art in language arts. (RS)

Interference between languages such as Spanish and English has a number of aspects, and one of the factors may be socioeconomic. (RB)

The purchase of $3,500 worth of paperback books led to 70 percent participation in an Ohio high school reading program run by the library-media center. (An annotated sampling of paperback titles purchased for the reading program is provided.) (MKM)

Documents the attempts of the Legislative Committee of the South Carolina State Council of the International Reading Association to influence minimal competency testing legislation. (MKM)

Suggests 22 ways to motivate reluctant or poor readers and lists 30 sources of materials for remedial readers. (MKM)