Advocates stories, poems, and other fictional forms as healing agents, using the distinctive configuration of "The Physicians' Desk Reference" (a comprehensive description of the drugs physicians prescribe). (SR)

Use the teaching ideas in this rich resource to improve your students' reading comprehension. By nurturing meaningful talk about reading and learning, you can monitor and support students' metacognitive use of strategies such as predicting, making connections, questioning, visualizing, and summarizing. A comprehensive breakdown of the components…

The purpose of this study was to document teachers' use of and student responses to a set of early literacy texts designed as a school-home literacy project. Participants in this study were 23 children from six urban kindergarten classrooms and their kindergarten teachers; 11 with high letter identification at entry (HLID) and 12 with low letter…

This study elaborates the "what works?" question by exploring the effects of variability in program implementation quality on achievement. Particularly, the effects on achievement of computerized assessment of reading were investigated, analyzing data on 51,000 students in Grades 1-12 who read over 3 million books. When minimum implementation…

Designed to consider whether pictures might facilitate word identification and word learning and to determine the most appropriate design of pictures to aid in independent reading, this instrument consists of 24 sentences and accompanying pictures that completely or partially represent the noun information in the sentence. Substitutions for the…

IN THIS VOLUME, ONE IN A SERIES OF FIVE, THE STUDENT OF JAPANESE WILL FIND REPRODUCED 16 TEXTS SELECTED FROM JAPANESE LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS (PUBLICATION DATES 1948 TO 1960). THESE ARTICLES AND EXTRACTS FROM BOOKS WERE SELECTED TO REPRESENT THE BEST OF JAPANESE SCHOLARSHIP IN THE FIELD OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY. A STUDENT OF SOCIOLOGY…

THE SECOND VOLUME OF THIS JAPANESE READING TEXT CONTAINS THE PHONEMIC TRANSCRIPTIONS, BACKGROUND NOTES, AND GLOSSES FOR THE READING SELECTIONS IN THE FIRST VOLUME. THE COMPREHENSIVE ANNOTATIONS ARE INDEXED TO THE READING SELECTIONS BY PAGE AND COLUMN NUMBER. SINCE THE READING SELECTIONS ARE NOT GRADED AND MAY BE READ IN ANY ORDER, THE ANNOTATIONS…

A VARIETY OF ARRANGEMENTS, ACTIVITIES, AND GROUPING POSSIBILITIES WITHIN THE CLASSROOM USING THE INDIVIDUALIZED READING PROGRAM (IRP) ARE PRESENTED. SEVERAL MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE INDIVIDUALIZED READING PROGRAM ARE MENTIONED, ESPECIALLY THE NOTION THAT CLASS SUBGROUPS ARE NOT PERMISSIBLE WITHIN THE IRP STRUCTURE AND THAT THE TEACHER-PUPIL…

The author discusses why old classics are not as popular with children today and lists the popular childrens books of now. This change suggests a revamping of required educational reading. Also, a correlation between what is on television and what children read leads the author to conclude that television can function as reinforcement to reading…

Summer reading suggestions are offered for teachers and students. Brief descriptions and sources of 11 children's magazines are provided. (DB)

Maintains that, despite their guilt about books they "ought to" be reading, teachers can trust themselves to guide their own reading in worthwhile ways. Offers a personal example of how reading books leads to more books. (SR)

Describes using reading centers, called Reading Choices, placed around a kindergarten room to provide kindergarten students with more opportunities to read and interact with stories and with print. (SR)

A national sample of 320 school-based, practicing members of the National Association of School Psychologists provided information on (a) their caseloads receiving medications, (b) types of school psychopharmacology training opportunities available and perceptions of their current training in child psychopharmacology, and (c) information about…