The ability to listen attentively and critically is crucial. Describes two techniques for improving listening skills. (Editor/RK)

Discusses how teachers can use the inherent motivating power of the newspaper to help them better teach their subject. Discusses using newspapers to motivate students, teach important concepts, supplement learning, and inform students. Suggests ways to prepare students to read a newspaper and what to do during and after reading the newspaper. (MG)

Focuses on how classroom teachers can instruct their students in essential reading and writing skills while using social studies as the medium for discussion. Offers a general overview of representative cooperative learning methods and a more in-depth description of a few specific reading and writing applications. Describes other potential…

This issue of the serial "Materials" is devoted to major events that occurred in Spain in 1992 and celebrates the fifth centennial of Spain's discovery of the new world. This issue presents nine activities for intermediate and advanced students of Spanish. Each unit begins with information on the student level for which it is intended,…

The main purpose of these two studies was to determine whether or not generating good comprehension questions while studying prose material was an effective study technique. In the first study there were two treatment groups to which the high school seniors participating in the study were randomly assigned: a questioning-with-training or a…

Considers the use of graphic aids with regard to readers' ability to integrate graphic with written information. Points out students' need for instructional activities that develop skills such as inference through information coordination of the graphic aid, text, and prior knowledge. Presents the three stages of the GIL. (JK)

Describes a read-listen-discuss heuristic that uses several stimuli to evoke a particular set of desired responses. (HOD)

Contributors offer a writing activity that can help students sharpen their awareness of how authors structure stories, and a scale that can serve as a guide to content area teachers for textbook selection. (HOD)

Describes Brigham Young University's reading and study skills course for law students, which is designed to increase reading speed and comprehension. Explains the use of the FAIR (Facts, Action, Issues, and Reasoning) system for analyzing law cases. Covers student reactions and modifications implemented in course design. (AYC)

Contributors offer teaching ideas, including: using Sherlock Holmes mysteries to teach character and plot development, using materials supplied by the athletic coaches in the reading laboratory, and using individualized reading in the content areas. (AEA)

Suggested methods for teaching reading include using real estate brochures, art activities, content materials, and activities for motivating reluctant readers. (AEA)

Provides three vocabulary strategies that provide practical activities to improve the content area vocabulary and reading skills of students. Offers these strategies as an integrative means for implementation of content material to teach students essential vocabulary. (MG)

There is a convincing literature base showing that teachers in a variety of content areas at all levels have used poetry for many years to enrich their curricula and assist in the learning of concepts, procedures, theories, and terms (e.g., Dexter, 1988; Ginocchio & Frederick, 1987; Kane, 1998, 2003; Robertson, 1997; Rodgers & Zolbrod, 1986;…

Pupils need to experience a variety of reading activities in mathematics. Commercially published materials should be on the understanding levels of individual learners. Starting with the kindergarten level and progressing sequentially through the ensuing school years, pupils need to read meaningfully numerals used in the basic four operations, the…

In today's mathematics classroom there is much concern about the students' lack of success. Mathematics teachers can successfully incorporate reading into their classrooms by: (1) promoting in-class reading activities; (2) teaching vocabulary; (3) emphasizing mathematical symbols; and (4) ensuring understanding of mathematical sentences. Reading…