Investigates the impact of a required secondary reading methods course on preservice teachers' attitudes regarding the need to teach reading skills to high school students. Finds that students' attitudes underwent significant changes during the course and that they became more aware of the need for teaching reading skills in the secondary program.…

Presents a dialogue between a university faculty member and an elementary teacher. Explores the rich relationship afforded by collaborative efforts. Demonstrates how the connections of methods courses to classroom settings can strengthen preservice training for beginning teachers. (HB)

Concludes that elementary school teachers have definite opinions concerning what should be taught in college and university methods classes and what should be incorporated into reading instruction in the elementary grades. (FL)

Describes a reading methods course in which secondary teacher trainees in all content areas are helped to discover the need for teaching reading at the secondary level and to learn methods for teaching reading skills. (GW)

Presents four strategies (journal writing, directed listening-thinking activity, use of big books, and language experience approach) which are components of many whole language classrooms and can be used by teacher educators to model teaching methods beginning teachers can use in their classrooms. (MG)