Argues that teachers are the most important factor in the process of motivating children to read. Explains how teachers can model reading for their students. (FL)

Presents highlights from a panel discussion by well known San Francisco Bay area documentation writers, instructional designers, and human performance technologists. Three issues on user performance and documentation are addressed: whether people avoid reading user manuals and why; major human factors influencing documentation use; and…

Explores the change in attitudes toward young adult literature since it developed in the 1960s, and considers the future of the genre. (EL)

Reflects upon rekindled enthusiasm by teachers for children's literature and upon the lean years when teachers stressed reading skills and disdained the use of literature in class. (EL)

Concludes that reading interests of children were similar across achievement levels. Offers tips to help low-achievers choose recreational reading materials. (FL)

Students' personal responses to literature provide the focus that makes a reading curriculum effective. Teachers can create a classroom that instills positive attitudes towards reading by providing a variety of reading materials, encouraging students to share responses, and by not using literature as a camouflage for teaching reading skills. (DF)

Focuses on the stated purposes of reading evaluation, examines trends in the types of assessments used, and looks at some possible indicators of changes in literacy levels in the Canadian Provinces. (CRH)

Describes activities designed to improve the critical reading skills of young readers. (FL)

Reports findings of a study that analyzed approximately 2,000 selections from basal readers to determine the nature of their content. Concludes that only 57.7% of the selections had subject matter content, none had functional ("knowing how") content, and none had ethos ("knowing to") content. (FL)

Argues that becoming aware that it is the reader who makes the material interesting is a remedial student's first step toward command of reading. Offers techniques used in college remedial classes and a teachers' workshop to develop this ability. (FL)

Describes ways that both parents and teachers can instill a love of reading in children. (FL)

Noting that many teachers may be moving gradually toward holistic teaching while still using many traditional materials and practices, this book presents a reading inventory that retains some traditional methods and descriptions as well as naturalistic assessment methods and descriptions that are more consistent with current thinking about…

A study was conducted to determine if second grade teachers use gender biased literature and if these teachers are unintentionally sending biased messages to their students. Sixty-two second grade students and their three teachers were included in this study. The study was conducted in an upper-middle-class suburban elementary school. Several…

The software "Breakthrough to Literacy" was introduced in kindergarten classrooms in a suburban school district in 1999 and focuses on oral language development. Through observations, the author studied the effects the software had on individual children's oral language and pre-reading readiness skills. Along with reading skill development, oral…

The purpose of this study was to determine if a parent workshop on reading strategies would increase students' use of reading strategies and improve both parent's and child's attitudes toward reading at home. Fourteen parents from an affluent suburban first grade attended. The parents represented students from below average to above average…