Describes six Right to Read programs funded by Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title II grants.

Lists 42 ways of motivating students to read. (RB)

Ten practical suggestions for involving children in successful reading experiences. nAuthor)

Points out that the imitative, repeated, and impress methods of teaching reading each have certain strengths and weaknesses of which teachers should be aware. (Author/FL)

Explains how classroom cookery can be used in the elementary school language arts program. Emphasizes ways it can improve reading skills and provides a listing of cookbooks for children. (FL)

Argues that a literate environment can be fostered by teachers requesting children to read the daily newspaper and encouraging them to badger their parents for subscriptions. (FL)

Discusses a commercially produced program for increasing reading comprehension. (FL)

Reprints a reading classic, originally published in this journal in 1979. Describes the method of repeated readings, discussing the procedure, comprehension, and theoretical rationale. Compares it with music and sports and notes how versions of this method were used in early schooling. (SR)

Presents an approach for teaching children strategies for reading comprehension called the "comprehension strategy framework." Offers a description for the rationale of elements of the framework (including an example of a second-grade lesson); shows how the framework fits into current literacy trend in strategy teaching; and describes…

Explores issues of reading instruction with 11 experts representing a range of views toward reading education. Finds unanimous agreement on 3 of a list of 12 easy ways to make learning to read difficult: teach letters and words one at a time; make word-perfect reading the prime objective; and detect and correct inappropriate eye movements. (SR)

Describes the Said Web, an instructional strategy that encourages students to examine clusters of words and the words' linkages to one another so that vocabulary study does not occur as lists of isolated words, but rather as meaningful groups. Outlines eight instructional steps for the Said Web, which can be used with young children and modified…

Describes a strategy reading tutors can use with elementary school children to help bring their attention to the targeted skill in their reading instruction, done by demonstrating to the child the reading behavior that is intended for instruction. Shows how the child then can articulate the purpose of the skill and the rationale for learning it.…

Discusses the importance of self-concept in learning to read and suggests several techniques for improving a child's self-concept. (WR)

Introduces three reading guides for helping upper elementary students comprehend informational text: the point of view reading guide, the reading road map, and the interactive reading guide. Presents examples of each type of guide along with recommendations for development and use of reading guides in the classroom. (ARH)

Presents a technique for use with large groups of children to provide them with practice in fluent reading. (FL)