The author encourages the development of interdisciplinary approaches to literacy education that provides students with an opportunity to improve a broad range of literacy skills while studying substantive and interesting content. (JOW)

Maintains that literary fiction may be used to enhance students' understanding of an historical period. Demonstrates how Steinbeck's GRAPES OF WRATH may be used to convey the human side of problems, sufferings, and triumphs that the United States experienced during the Great Depression. (JDH)

Describes a reading and writing activity for senior high school students which involves "explicating" a textbook passage. It maintains that the assignment puts an end to superficial reading habits. (JDH)

Describes an activity in which undergraduate students read an international publication to help them have a broader vision of the subject being studied, encourage constructive criticism, promote discussion, and stimulate efforts toward better oral and written communication in the students' native language. (JN)

A four-factor approach to estimating the readability of content area texts for learning disabled students focuses on vocabulary, syntax, density, and format. (CL)

Supporting students' learning from subject area text involves focusing on both the text's content and on the processes students apply as they work to acquire, organize, and integrate that content. Clearly, more complex texts require more sophisticated learning processes on the part of students. Resources on the World Wide Web pose special…

Presents a useful instrument which determines what administrators and teachers expect of reading specialists. (RB)

Standards for the use of the informal inventory are guidelines, not absolute criteria, but which may by used with any type of reading material. (Authors/MB)

Condensed literature would provide more varied information than do documents because more terse statements can be read. It would also function as surrogates for documents unread for lack of time, language, or access. (MF)

Discusses three series of informational books that deal with animals: "Little Woodland Books,""Life Cycles," and "Skylight Books." (FL)

Defines the flexible reader, suggests methods of assessing reading flexibility, and presents a strategy for teaching reading flexibility in secondary level content area classrooms. (FL)

Discusses the concept of reading flexibility; suggests a two-step instructional procedure (termed ReFlex Action) for teaching children to be flexible in reading rate and purpose. (DD)

Although students may read every word of an assignment, a lack of ability to make meaningful connections between words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs can make it impossible for them to interpret and apply what they read. Strategies are given for increasing reading comprehension in social studies instruction. (JN)

Suggests ten teaching strategies for combining reading skills development and physical education instruction. (MKM)

Shows that fifth and sixth grade social studies and science students using the Guided Reading Procedure devised by Anthony Manzo scored significantly higher on short-term and long-term retention tests than did students using other reading approaches. (FL)