In this essay, Roni Jo Draper reflects upon her professional journey as a content-area literacy teacher educator, describing how she first became a literacy teacher educator and how she later came to collaborate with a group of teacher educators who specialize in disciplines such as music, theater, and mathematics. Drawing upon naturalistic data…

Lorenza Lara, Secondary Literacy Coordinator for the Denver (CO) Public Schools, specializes in secondary English Learner (EL) education. According to Lorenza, EL research has shown that educators often confuse youths' regular development in a second language with literacy difficulties. This research also has demonstrated the individuality of…

Offers suggestions for use by administrators in motivating content area teachers to incorporate more reading instruction into their classes. (FL)

Discusses making content area reading an integral part of the curriculum. Discusses objections, fads, critical skills, and implementation. (SR)

Makes recommendations about what content area reading should include and how it should be presented to content teachers. (FL)

Suggests ways to stimulate content area teachers' interest in content area reading programs. Advocates a philosophy of "content communication," which can be developed by guiding subject matter teachers through five developmental stages (awareness, knowledge, simulation, practice, and incorporation). (JT)

Presents suggestions for research on reading in the home economics education content area. Includes a discussion of the significance of basic skills and reading education, an overview of the role of reading in basic skills education, and reading in the content area versus reading instruction. (JOW)

The reading process and instruction in this process must be accepted as an essential part of learning and must be integrated into the total school curriculum. However, the fact that most content area teachers have had little or no training in reading instruction and that they lack insight into the reading process and the various reading/study…

Offers strategies that reading specialists can use to promote changes in school reading programs and in content area teachers' attitudes toward reading instruction. (FL)

Suggests that the most feasible way of achieving rapport between secondary school content area teachers and reading specialists is through in-service programs that utilize total school in-service, departmental in-service, individual in-service, total school and departmental in-service, or a combination of these approaches. (FL)

Argues that instructional decisions may be affected by the conflict produced when teachers' curricular perceptions do not match those that underlie a recommended teaching strategy and presents an ideological framework for comparing secondary reading goals and their related curricula. (FL)

For reading specialists to play a decisive role in improving reading comprehension of young people, they must get into the classrooms. To gain this entry, they should behave in a way that acknowledges the classroom teacher's attitudes and perceptions about reading and that eliminates those practices that seem to offend teachers. (Author/SJL)

Students are exposed to a curriculum that primes both males and females for a sexist society. Picture books are the first reading materials to which young children are exposed. An analysis of award winning children's books reveals negative associations about being female. Sex role stereotyping is already operative at the prereading and early…

Concludes that Round Robin Reading is a widely used method of teaching science and social studies in the intermediate grades. Discusses the effects of this method of instruction and provides alternatives for it. (FL)

Today, more than ever before, teachers are devoting much of their intellectual and emotional energy to helping students better understand the school texts that they are required to read. This can best be accomplished through six changes in the way reading comprehension is taught: (1) accept an active-constructive model of reading comprehension;…