Examines the impact of one-on-one tutoring on the reading abilities of students with high listening comprehension scores. Concludes that there is no confirmation that listening comprehension is a reliable indicator of capacity level for students whose listening comprehension scores are above their expected grade placements. (RS)

Investigates how metaphor influences a reader's ability to recall information about new concepts, assimilate new concepts into existing conceptual structures, and accommodate new concepts by creating new conceptual structures. Offers support for metaphor as an instructional device for formal reasoners. Suggests that metaphor may interfere with…

Uses the medium of descriptions of TV movies to describe how thematic teaching can be achieved in the different academic disciplines. Presents specific theme ideas. Discusses how an actual activity of TV movie summary descriptions emphasizes vocabulary development and reading comprehension. Describes specific reading skills promoted by this…

Suggests that teachers can use reluctant readers' sensitivity to and sophistication with "musicomedy" to both assess and develop reading comprehension. Discusses several class activities using the musical and humorous expressions in television commercials for fulfilling this objective. (RS)

Explains a strategy to improve comprehension and self-confidence in the at-risk reader. Notes that the method--The Image Format--has six steps that are interactive and interdependent. Finds that the results of the technique is self-repeated expansion of comprehension and self-confidence. Provides instruction on design, teacher use, and student…

Based on a number of publications within the last five years, this article starts with an observation that vocabulary instruction for English-Language Learners is still not given adequate attention. In an attempt to improve the situation, the author suggests a modified approach to extensive reading for vocabulary and reading development. The…

Concludes that teachers need to be aware of the side effects before administering cloze test procedures to college students. (RB)

Argues the importance of teaching students to read for meaning and suggests nine ways in which critical reading and thinking skills can be developed. (RB)

Presents a technique designed to help most readers' vocabulary grow with their every day reading. (JM)

Reports study which found that some high school students were far from any reasonable level of mastery of the ability to comprehend directions on potentially hazardous household products. (JM)

Discusses a five-week summer reading program for 44 "high risk" children who had completed the first through the fifth grades in which cloze was used as the culminating language arts activity. (JM)

Discusses a learning strategy, employing imaginal processes and verbal mediations procedures, designed to improve reading comprehension in 24 learning disabled students. Indicates significant gains and improvement in reading comprehension over a 15 week treatment period. (MM)

Explores ways teachers can teach attentive listening and makes suggestions for developing listening skills used in natural ways in the classroom. (FL)

Details a study that assessed two experimental approaches to improving reading comprehension among fourth grade children--one involving training in syllogistic reasoning and the other using comprehension questions--and concludes that neither approach was effective. (FL)