Using a ceramics unit, the author illustrates ways of incorporating the following reading skills into an art lesson: following directions; pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary development; interpreting illustrations; using reference books and materials; notetaking; and skimming. (SJL)

Contains a discussion on how television networks are working to motivate their audiences to read; a plea for equal emphasis on all reading skills in reading programs; a report on the readability of three reading journals; and a formula for assessing "anticipatory reading" ability. (JT)

Presents an instructional strategy--the "parallel lesson transfer"--for teaching students to identify main ideas. The lessons involve students in viewing pictures, listening, oral reading, and silent reading. (JT)

Presents one way to approach the problem of extracting key concepts from social studies reading materials through the use of concept-formation study guides; includes an example of a study guide for helping fourth or fifth grade children in concept formation. (JM)

Examines the task of locating information in textbook chapters (text search). Finds differences between more efficient and less efficient searchers in how they distribute their time across various aspects of the task. Discovers that as task complexity increases, efficient searchers allocate relatively more search time to initial stages of text…

Shares experiences from three teachers in the following articles: "Integrating Content Area Skills with Fiction Favorites" (Hilda E. Ollmann); "Turning Teenagers into Reader Response Researchers" (Sharon Kane); and "Increasing Student Awareness of the Importance of Reading" (Rose Katz Ortiz). (MG)

Describes in detail a three-month class project focusing on fictionalized biographies and the life of Benjamin Franklin. Notes that in-depth integration of reading, writing, and content area instruction improves reading skills, as well as learning from content area textbooks, especially for low ability readers. (MM)

Provides practical, research-based suggestions for improving reading and writing skills of college science students. Describes characteristics of skilled science readers. Explains how to select reading materials that make sense and what teachers can do to improve reading assignments. Lists traits of skilled science readers and offers suggestions…

Twenty-nine prelingually, profoundly deaf adolescents were interviewed to assess their metacognitive knowledge about school-related reading. Students' schemata for school-related reading were largely skill based and passive and lacked mature metacognitive knowledge that would enable students to gain the most from their reading instruction and…

Discusses the importance prior knowledge plays in learning in the content areas. Discusses previewing pictures as a prereading activity and presents a picture analysis activity which can be used to activate prior knowledge to use as a foundation for good bridge building. (MG)

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)

Reviews research concerning the preteaching of content area vocabulary. Questions the value of solely preteaching content terms and suggests teaching both general and content vocabulary in ways that aid students in becoming independent word learners. (MG)

Based on research findings, informed opinions contained in the professional literature, and examples from school personnel of "what works," this report focuses on strategies that educators can use to improve secondary school students' reading skills and enhance interest in reading. Many of the strategies in the report are applicable…

Proposing two major shifts in how to involve low readers more effectively in textbook learning, this book suggests that students, even those with low reading skills, can learn to use mainstream textbooks, and that textbooks can be designed to make them more usable for all students. The book presents a series of instructional techniques that…