Provides activities for teaching the skill of comparison using various parts of newspapers. (SRT)

Examines the nature of comprehension from a linguist's, researcher's and teacher's perspectives. Suggests teaching inferential comprehension keeping the reader's experience in mind. (MKM)

Describes a strategy used to teach health-related vocabulary that required students to understand and make value judgments about the words. (MKM)

Describes how the "Read a Book in an Hour" teaching technique may be incorporated in programs dealing with written composition and reading comprehension. (DD)

Encourages the use of dramatization as a way of building vocabulary by showing the meanings of words in the context of experiences associated with them. (DD)

Suggests that the use of newspapers in the remedial reading classroom will emphasize the transfer of the process of main idea from known levels to more extensive contexts by offering realistic application on multiple levels--pictures, words, sentences, and paragraphs. (SRT)

Describes ways to use reading, reaction, and vocabulary extension guides to help maintain students' interest in poetry. (KS)

Suggests a structured response format for interpreting literary characters in death-related literature using Kubler-Ross's five stages of confronting death. (AEA)

Reviews materials in the ERIC data base that can be used to teach students test-wiseness skills such as cue- using strategies, time using, error avoidance, guessing, deductive reasoning, answering analogies, and answering multiple choice questions. (MKM)

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

Provides a structured approach to analyzing literature, based on transactional analysis. (DD)

Sentence combining techniques designed to improve reading comprehension are described and studies showing a positive correlation between the two are cited. (MKM)

Presents twelve activities designed to convince the student that reading can be fun and not boring. (JM)

Discusses the critical role vocabulary knowledge plays in metaphorical processing and gives teaching suggestions on dealing with metaphors and similes. (FL)

Explains how newspapers published on students' birthdays can be used in the classroom to stimulate reading and suggests 25 learning activities using the newspaper. (KS)