The development of quality educational programs, designed to meet the needs of all students, is a pivotal responsibility of educators and yet a considerable challenge due to the diverse needs in each school. Many consider the Response to Intervention (RtI) model to be one initiative with the greatest potential to improve education for all students…

Pacesetting high schools, middle grades schools and technology centers have changed classroom and other practices to prepare students to meet postsecondary requirements and rising workplace needs. The strategies include raising expectations, project-based learning, guidance and advisement, improving students' reading and writing skills,…

Tells content reading teachers some of the pitfalls to avoid and some of the new approaches to take in helping students benefit from reading. (RB)

Describes the following four proven techniques used to assist students with low reading abilities in finding success in business education courses: (1) Establishing a purpose for reading, (2) survey technique, (3) special interest projects, and (4) supplementary reading materials in the classroom. (TA)

Offers a wide variety of cues that students can use to improve their reading skills at the secondary level. (RB)

Discusses the problem many high school students have in concentrating on reading materials and suggests several ideas to solve the problem. (RB)

Re Quest, a questioning strategy suited to upper primary grades, was found to arouse children's interest, improve their questioning ability, and increase their comprehension scores. (RBW)

An on-site description attempts to offer ideas that can be considered, adapted, and improved upon for reading programs. (RB)

Many students read below grade level and have problems reading their core textbooks. Presented are five techniques secondary teachers can use to improve their students' reading skills. (MD)

A procedure involving repeated readings of the same passage combined with the programing evaluation procedure caused 16 learning-disabled secondary students' reading attitudes to change significantly. Feedback to the student was provided by charting the record of faster times and number of word errors. (SBH)

Stresses the importance of finding the strengths of problem readers, and building on them. (RB)

Presents some additional thoughts on improving reading comprehension through the use of multiple-choice main idea reading exercises. (RB)

Contends that teaching methods are more important than the kinds of materials used to improve the skills of problem readers. (RB)

A 9-week program examined the effectiveness of newspaper use on reading achievement among 107 secondary special education students. Ss were assigned to a control group which did not use newspapers, or to two experimental groups, one of which used incidental and one, teacher-directed newspaper reading. Results of pre- and posttests on the Peabody…