Explains the need for teaching elementary school students about expository text structure and presents a comprehensive method for doing this. (FL)

This book provides practical, research-based guidelines for reading comprehension instruction in grades K-9. The book integrates current research findings with real-life observations of diverse students in action, identifying the strategies that successful readers use to comprehend many different types of materials. It offers recommendations for…

This book offers practical examples, updated listings of quality children's literature, and new activities to promote successful reading experiences for K-8 learners. The book contains practical information on prereading, during reading, and postreading activities, along with ideas for incorporating scaffolding reading experiences into the…

This 1998 technical report looks at California Early Literacy Learning (CELL), a staff development program designed to help elementary teachers strengthen their teaching of reading and writing. Reading Recovery and other research-based teaching methodologies have been organized into a framework for classroom instruction, and training in the…

Sharing research completed during a practicum project, this resource guide presents ideas, suggestions, and references to enhance children's and educators' repertoire of reading strategies. It lists 50 ways to encourage reading and writing connections at home; presents 10 reading strategies for unknown words; offers 17 suggestions for literacy…

The effects of key words and previewing on the rate of words read correctly and the reading comprehension of a language minority student (age 10) were analyzed. The student read more words correctly and answered more comprehension questions accurately after the material was previewed and key words were discussed. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)

A 9-year-old with learning disabilities exhibiting speech and language delay was taught to illustrate his own picture prompt materials for learning basic sight words. Illustrating word meaning was first modeled for the participant. Subsequently, he illustrated the remaining target words. Rapid acquisition and retention of the target words…

Interviews Jennifer Herbold, a deaf teacher of deaf students at the New Mexico School for the Deaf. Discusses important factors in determining Deaf students' success at learning to read. Notes that technology has enormous potential with deaf students because it provides increased exposure to English, it is often fun to use for deaf students, and…

After each page of reading a short story, 10 elementary students attending a residential school for the deaf were asked to think aloud (or think visibly). Participants constructed meaning, monitored comprehension, and activated strategies to improve comprehension, and evaluated, but did not demonstrate, each reading strategy within these…

This article discusses applications of the Cloze whole language technique for teaching reading to deaf students. Techniques described include using Cloze questions in shared reading, predicting language in written text, solving Cloze exercises with teamwork, working with minimal clues, predicting in patterns, and using Cloze techniques for…

Argues that confirming reading predictions emphasizes supporting evidence, while refuting predictions reinforces positive patterns of logic and scientific inquiry. Shows how teachers can change questions of confirmation to questions of refutation, using question examples about the story "Old Ben Bailey Meets His Match." (MM)

Suggests that abandoning controlled vocabulary texts on the assumption that reading is a psycholinguistic guessing game was wrong. Claims that the current emphasis on strategy instruction, scaffolded reading experiences, and the use of writing to foster letter-sounds may provide good outcomes for those teachers and children who dreaded reading…

Presents an easy-to-follow chart that enables teachers to select the most appropriate reading strategy for each student, depending upon the student's ability. Moving from the bottom to the top of the chart, each strategy requires increasingly more reading independence of the student and less modeling by the teacher. (ET)

An Internet correspondence program gave Nebraska secondgraders an audience for their writing and provided Iowa preservice teachers with insights into classroom teaching. The experience helped youngsters' reading, writing, and comprehension skills. The college students learned that children can communicate in a sophisticated manner, have varied…

Describes the results of a survey of classroom read-aloud practices in the United States. Contrasts read-aloud practices with a "model" of what they might be. (PRA)