Provides ten suggestions content area teachers can use to help students with limited reading abilities. (DD)

Stresses the importance and benefits of children helping each other learn to read. Includes suggestions and guidelines to reading instructors for structuring peer-directed activities. (HTH)

This study describes the interactions of three adult-child reading partnerships in a program that matches corporate volunteers with "at risk" students for weekly hour-long story reading sessions. Using discourse analysis within a sociocultural framework, the researcher identified variation in the way these partners were constructing the act and…

A study was conducted to examine the differences in reading instruction for good and poor readers. Poor readers were found to have less opportunity to read silently or aloud in the classroom and to read only half as many words as the good readers. (HTH)

Examines materials in the ERIC database on the Suggestopedia method of instruction which bypasses the mind's barriers to learning and increases learning and retention. (HTH)

Second-grade students were divided into groups subjected to three programs namely, Direct Instruction, Open Court and literature based program, in order to determine the effectiveness of the three programs. The results indicated that the Open Court and Direct Instruction programs did not improve the children's reading.

Describes how art became a central part of a South Texas teacher's language arts curriculum and how such an approach improved children's reading and writing test scores despite (actually because of) the fact that she refused to drill children for the test. (RS)

To encourage the reluctant reader, stories may be cut out of any discarded readers and made into individual skinny books.

Describes an experiment indicating that having students write expressively on a regular basis could significantly improve their reading comprehension and enhance their attitudes toward themselves and toward reading and learning. Discusses implications of these results for the classroom and curriculum. (HTH)