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Peer reviewedWood, Karen D. – Reading Horizons, 1984
Discusses the problems of overusing workbooks, dittos, and basal assessment tests in beginning reading instruction. Proposes alternatives. (FL)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Primary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedBraun, Carl – Reading Horizons, 1976
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Primary Education, Reading Instruction, Sight Vocabulary
Peer reviewedFrommer, Harvey – Reading Horizons, 1976
Descriptors: Advertising, Critical Reading, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedO'Bruba, William S. – Reading Horizons, 1976
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Primary Education, Reading Difficulty, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedVanderMeulen, Kenneth – Reading Horizons, 1974
Lists ten ideas designed to improve the reading skills of high school students. (RB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Content Area Reading, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedVanderMeulen, Kenneth – Reading Horizons, 1973
Descriptors: Humor, Reading Instruction, Secondary Education, Student Motivation
Peer reviewedSmith, Ellen R. – Reading Horizons, 1983
Reviews recent reading research and points out several implications for classroom reading teachers. Uses T. C. Standal's descriptive model of reading as a framework in which to present the research. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Theories, Models, Phonology
Peer reviewedJohnson, Barbara – Reading Horizons, 1983
Offers four methods for improving the reading fluency of poor readers: three-minute repeated timings, repeated readings, taped reading, and model reading. Suggests that these methods allow the poor reader to attend to meaning. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Reading Fluency
Peer reviewedStevens, Kathleen C. – Reading Horizons, 1983
Emphasizes that, in order to comprehend, a reader must chunk the many words of a sentence into meaningful groups of words. Offers suggestions for developing "thought units" in the upper grades. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Language Processing, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedLamorella, Rose Marie; And Others – Reading Horizons, 1983
Argues that a successful adult basic education program should recognize the differences between younger students and adults, provide a setting in which adults' dignity is not threatened, carefully diagnose each adult's needs, and prescribe and implement a program to meet those needs. (FL)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adults, Functional Literacy
Peer reviewedJohnson, Barbara – Reading Horizons, 1982
Outlines seven basic concepts regarding teachers' understanding of the comprehension process and proposes several instructional strategies based on the concepts, each of which actively involves children in reading. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedDavidson, Jane L. – Reading Horizons, 1982
Offers suggestions for effective use of the Directed Reading-Thinking Activity developed by R. Stauffer. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedOuzts, Dan T. – Reading Horizons, 1982
Reviews the literature concerning the effects of teacher personality on the reading achievement of students, specifically remedial students. Concludes that teacher characteristics can be influential in improving student reading performance. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Personality, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedStandal, Timothy C.; Towner, John C. – Reading Horizons, 1982
Argues that round robin reading is valuable because it prepares students for "the real world" by exposing them to boredom, teaching them to look alert when they are not, teaching the skills of oneupmanship, and teaching inference skills (since it often obscures the story line of a work). (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Humor, Oral Reading
Peer reviewedCunningham, Patricia M. – Reading Horizons, 1981
Deplores beginning reading instruction stressing drill in isolated skills that interrupts the natural reading process. Suggests the use of imitative reading, such as having preschool children "memorize" a book they have heard aloud several times, as a successful teaching strategy. (HTH)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Motivation Techniques, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
