Provides evidence concerning the attitudes and behaviors of 111 content area reading teachers regarding reading, the teaching of reading, and reading specialists. Notes significant differences found between teachers of different subject areas. (Author/RL)

The author studied the literacy practices and perceptions of vocational educators, interviewing and observing them extensively for seven years. The vocational teachers used just as many texts as academic teachers, but used them "differently"--and although they used complex technical manuals, trade publications, schematics, diagrams, graphic…

A study examined the attitudes of educators toward content area reading in the early elementary grades. A self-report survey instrument called the Attitudes Toward Content Area Reading (ATCAR) was developed to measure educators' attitudes and to ascertain whether there were different theoretical orientations of educators relative to content area…

A study was undertaken to solve, through staff development, the problem of the selection and use of appropriate reading materials by content area teachers and to determine the amount and type of cooperation that could be expected between content area teachers and reading personnel. The field-based, action-research study compared two approaches to…

This study examines the attitudes of 79 community college instructors toward reading instruction in the content areas. The instructors responded to a 14-item attitude inventory modified from a similar study of secondary-school teachers. The study concludes that instructors' lack of confidence is partly responsible for their reluctance to teach…

Describes reading orientations for secondary teacher education courses, which attempt to develop in content-area majors an awareness of reading problems their students will have, why these problems exist, and what solutions are available. (RL)

A study with junior high students indicated that notetaking was an extremely difficult skill to master. However, content area teachers involved in the study reported changed expectation for their students and changed teaching techniques. (MKM)

Discusses a study designed to explore teachers' attitudes toward text selection, focusing on text characteristics and reasons for a particular selection. (AEA)

Assuming he has basic work recognition skills, any child can read any book with some degree of comprehension if the teacher conveys a positive attitude and students learn to read with purpose. (Author/RB)

Describes an informal investigation of students' familiarity with and knowledge of active reading strategies by administering the Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies Inventory. Contends that student responses solidified the importance of helping students become aware of reading strategies. Concludes that the best way to encourage content…

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)

Investigates mathematics teachers' beliefs about the role reading plays in mathematics learning and about their role in helping students deal with the reading of mathematics. Finds that the teachers were generally undecided in their beliefs about the role reading plays and about the role they should play in helping students in reading mathematics.…

Designed to assess the attitudes toward and perceptions of competency in teaching reading in the content areas held by preservice and inservice teachers of elementary and secondary school content area subjects, this inventory contains specific skill statements on a five-point Likert-type scale. Each statement represents and illustrates the…

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…