Presents five content area reading strategies for teaching music, theory, history, and performance techiques: anticipation guides, study guides, planned inferential reading lessons, recreational reading, and vocabulary instruction.(FL)

Discusses four principles derived from theory and practice that make incorporating writing into any class easy and worthwhile: (1) creating audience awareness, (2) making writing tasks consequential, (3) varying writing assignments, and (4) using writing to help students integrate new material into what they already. (FL)

Discusses the use of holistic evaluation, the use of rubrics and checklists, peer evaluation, and small group peer evaluation as means of making writing evaluation effective while keeping the paper load manageable. (FL)

Argues that reading teachers have a prominent part to play in promoting scientific literacy, and that specialists in reading are vital as colleagues of content area teachers, leaders in curriculum development and agents of change in educational legislation. (FL)

Discusses an inservice program in which secondary school teachers were taught various content area reading objectives and how to implement them. Reports on a study that evaluated the effectiveness of the program. (FL)

Discusses the genre of romantic fiction written for teens, proposes research questions, and provides publisher information for teachers who wish to stimulate teenage pleasure reading. (AEA)

A review of the literature on the relationship between reading ability and mathematical ability shows the process of reading mathematics to be very different from the process of reading English prose. (AEA)

Reports on a high school honors seminar that focuses on a single author each semester. Provides details of the semester during which Ernest Hemingway's work was studied. (JT)

Shows how a structured tutoring program helped increase both student and tutor reading scores. (JT)

Describes a classroom activity designed to teach students how to skim and to read critically that is applicable to all content subjects. (MKM)

A study conducted in Hong Kong investigated whether the native or a second language is a more effective medium of instruction. Students' performance and a survey of teacher opinions were used to compare Chinese middle schools and Anglo-Chinese schools. (MKM)

Presents six possible strategies to get adolescents to read: (1) capitalize on interests; (2) make reading material accessible; (3) build a conducive environment; (4) allow time to read in school; (5) provide significant adult models; and (6) use motivational techniques. Highlights ways which these strategies can be implemented in classrooms. (MG)

Reports how teachers use magazines in their classrooms to supplement state adopted textbooks. Provides a comprehensive list of specialized magazines in three content areas. Describes student activities such as comparing articles on the same topic from different magazines, and reading and evaluating articles with opposing views. (RS)

Investigates whether novelistic prose can be dated by considering marked stylistic changes that occurred over the past 240 years. Finds a positive correlation between publication date and stylistic markers of sentence length, word length, rare punctuation, and word shortening or informality. Argues that this process can form the basis for new…