Focuses on seven errors made by teachers of remedial reading in elementary, middle, and junior high school programs. Suggests corrections and acknowledges teachers who treat reading as a skill that can be learned and refined through reading. (JK)

Describes the varied teaching activities of a reading specialist. Discusses how her role is already what she would like it to be and what she would like to change. (SR)

Describes the role of the teacher and the reading coordinator in a vocational education reading program. (RB)

Offers a teaching method to help teachers focus on the values embodied in a children's book, their importance, and the ability of children to grasp the book's lesson either independently or with assistance. Lists children's picture books expressing values. (SRT)

Argues that fostering thinking across the curriculum can be affected by engaging students in complex, meaningful, long-term tasks such as decision making, naturalistic inquiry, scientific inquiry, problem solving, and composing. Notes that these tasks require an instructional format (workshops) that provides a new role for teachers and students.…

Discusses the teacher's role, teaching strategies, and the use of newspapers when working with at-risk learners. Presents four techniques (involving three to five minutes of structured thinking about a topic) that help motivate at-risk learners and focus their thinking. (RS)

Maintains that teacher-based assessment can be a powerful tool. Defines "informed" assessment, describes its features, and discusses conditions that must occur if teacher-based assessment is to reach its full potential. Discusses strategies that help teachers make day-to-day assessment more meaningful and credible. (SR)

Defines direct instruction and examines six common myths about it. Clarifies when direct instruction is appropriate in the language arts and reading curriculum. (ARH)

Points out the possible problems that can arise when people are "certain" about something. Suggests that readers need the power of uncertainty, which will allow them to consider new hypotheses, change conceptions, and use knowledge as a framework for constructing meaning, not merely to confirm ideas they already have. (FL)

Argues that strategic teaching develops learners who are independent and able to use a variety of learning strategies. Argues that by modeling learning strategies and verbalizing their own thinking as they learn, teachers can develop students who will become strategic learners. (RS)

Describes a teaching strategy that can develop the student's cognitive ability for learning the labels for new thoughts, ideas, and concepts and a teaching strategy that promotes the learning more through modeling the teacher's interest in words. (HOD)

Suggests that a focus on traditional rules for good writing can create writer's block and offers strategies that focus on the topic and student's thinking for overcoming writing apprehension. (HOD)

Argues that social studies teachers must share a role in promoting long-term literacy. Suggests that teachers include literature as part of the instructional program; use a wide variety of materials during class time; read aloud to students regularly; and avoid conditions that dissuade students from reading. (RS)

Contributors (1) offer suggestions about using the newspaper for vocabulary development and involving students in problem solving activities, (2) describe a course designed for parents who want to help their children with reading, and (3) discuss the names of diacritical marks. (FL)