Describes a visual representation technique that aids college students in reading textbooks, organizing lecture notes, preparing for examinations, and organizing papers. (JT)

Results of a survey of 150 high school teachers in four states suggest that content area teachers do teach reading skills and that many now have accurate perceptions of reading teachers and reading skills. (DD)

Describes the Instructional Framework, a teacher-constructed activity in which students are shown how to develop concepts while simultaneously learning content. (FL)

Describes a social studies program in which generalized assignments are given for the development of comprehension and study skills and which emphasizes student responsibility for learning. (MKM)

Describes techniques which teach students how to read science to help them overcome their anxieties about the subject and their desire to avoid it. (MG)

Describes a discussion web as a graphic aid for teaching students how to think about both sides of an issue before drawing a conclusion in response to what they have read. Describes the five-step procedure and provides grade-level and content-area examples and examples of webs in action across the curriculum. (MG)

Examines degree to which three types of tasks affect the selection of main points in instructional texts. Finds, on average, type of task did affect the number and kind of selected text fragments, but the variation between the students was large. Suggests findings provide more insight into three ways of identifying main points. (RS)

Explores argument in reading as a touchstone to academic study, discusses some views of the sources of reading difficulty, and makes some suggestions that have helped college students cope with the quantity of reading required and get the most benefit from their reading efforts. Illustrates these strategies with example from undergraduate students…

Hand-in-hand with the current renewed emphasis on student success and a resurgence of Writing Across the Curriculum, instructors in all disciplines need to refocus on Reading Across the Curriculum to address students' needs, to achieve instructional goals, and to prepare citizens for full participation in our democracy. It seems clear that a…

"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) "A Plan for Success": Alliance Joins Nine National Organizations Representing Communities of Color in Historic Campaign for…

A study investigated the relation of text structure to information retained by readers. The premise investigated was that memory for the central facts of a passage will be enhanced by the presence of related information as theorized in the encoding elaboration model (developed by Anderson and Reder in 1979). This model states that comprehension…

The eye movements of two college graduates were monitored in a study of flexible reading, which is defined as the ability to adjust one's rate and approach to reading according to the purpose of reading, the difficulty of the material, and one's knowledge of the subject matter. The subjects were told to read an excerpt from a tenth grade biology…

This handbook includes materials developed by faculty members of George W. Wingate High School in a program to improve reading skills in subject area classes. These materials include lesson plans and various kinds of worksheets. Although the lessons involve many content areas, they are divided into these reading skill subject areas; vocabulary…

The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of the cloze procedure as an additional means of speeding up the process of determining a child's mathematical reading abilities. Two cloze mathematical reading tests (CMRT) of equal length were constructed. The tests averaged 250 words each and every fifth word was deleted. One cloze…

This paper explains the goals of Operation READS (Reading Embracing All Disciplines at Sewanhaka) in helping secondary school subject area teachers develop a favorable attitude toward reading. The program's primary student objective is the acquisition of basic textbook reading skills. Operation READS is an intensive, one week mobilization of all…