The Fry Graph for Estimating Readability can be used to provide students with feedback concerning the complexity of their writing. (KS)

Considers some strategies for helping secondary content area teachers find effective ways to teach their students specific techniques for handling the materials they have to read. (MKM)

Compares the readability of state drivers' manuals, noting that several educational agencies have issued instructional guides to be used with the manuals and mentions how a spelling test can be an indicator of student attitudes. (HOD)

Reviews reading problems encountered in industrial arts courses and provides suggestions for how to deal with them. (MKM)

Suggests how teachers can make materials more comprehensible for students rather than relying on readability formulas for reading material selection. (AEA)

Argues that new vocabulary words should be presented in concept clusters and related to prior knowledge to facilitate organization in memory. Presents a sample lesson for science vocabulary. (HOD)

Describes how news magazines were used successfully as supplements to teach civic literacy, vocabulary, and writing to college level reluctant readers. Contains two sample exercises. (HOD)