Draws on selected ERIC resources to suggest dominant features of two approaches to beginning reading: systematic phonics and whole language learning. (HOD)

Specifies some of the different word learning tasks students face, describes different levels of word knowledge, notes three types of costs involved in instruction, and discusses the costs and benefits of some specific methods of vocabulary instruction. (HOD)

Compares Charles Peters's Content Processing Model with another content area reading model and argues that critics have overlooked a substantial flexibility within the models. (HOD)

In a six-week study involving seventh- to ninth-grade students in a summer corrective reading program, neither the holistic nor the subskill treatment had a significant advantage in improving student reading comprehension or attitude toward reading. (JT)

Points out that newspapers can be used in social studies classrooms for engaging in the following types of activities: (1) comparing and contrasting issues; (2) discovering cause-effect patterns; (3) determining fact versus opinion; (4) identifying propaganda; and (5) learning map and globe skills. (SKC)