This article discusses how to implement paired reading with developing readers to foster students' fluency and reading comprehension. The teacher first helps students comprehend the story with focused discussion questions and the completion of a beginning, middle, and end (B-M-E) chart. Then, the teacher scaffolds students to do the oral reading…

The selections contained in this annotated bibliography were chosen with the assumption that primary-level children often prefer having read to them more complex books than the picture books with simple text that they are able to read themselves. Books listed which are suitable for reading aloud to children contain, to some extent, an element of…

Reviews new phonograph recordings that feature readings of children's books. (GT)

Presents suggestions for using plays in the classroom as a means of developing language and reading skills. Provides a list of plays covering many topics and grade levels. (FL)

Provides an historical overview of the subject of oral reading, comments by Richard Ammon and Ronald Cramer about it, and a selected annotated bibliography on purposeful oral reading. (DD)

Presented in this partially annotated bibliography are 154 reports of research concerning the analysis of oral reading miscues or errors, including dissertations, journal articles, books, final reports of federal research projects, and presentations to professional organizations. It was compiled by researchers at the University of Kansas by…

Discovers the lack of attention given to plays for young adults in most published booklists, and follows with a list of recent works for junior and senior high readers. (CRH)

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The seven titles deal with the following topics: (1) the effect of relaxation training on anxiety for the poetry recitation tasks among elementary school children; (2) musical theatre in higher education; (3) developing faith…

Documents and journal articles in the ERIC databases are listed which explore relationships between teachers' theoretical orientations and feedback to students during oral reading. Specifically, the research concerns findings from the Theoretical Orientation to Reading Profile, the Propositions about Reading Instruction Profile, and the Feedback…

Hearing stories read aloud enhances children's language skills, makes accessible texts that are beyond children's decoding skills or that use old-fashioned words, foreign names, expressions, dialects, or nonstandard grammatical constructions. This article provides models for the differentiated voices of characters, helps young listeners appreciate…

The 197 reading tests described in this bibliography assess various reading skills such as comprehension, oral reading, silent reading, independent, instructional and frustration levels. Some of the reading tests are part of overall achievement batteries. Some of the tests are in Spanish. This bibliography does not include reading readiness tests.…

Many librarians would like to provide a reading club which includes not only reading patrons, but pre-reading or read-to-me patrons and those parents, family members and caregivers that care for, work with and read to them. To help library staff and volunteers organize, implement and manage a read-to-me club, this planning handbook is intended to…

Some of the 172 tests described in this bibliography are subtests of achievement batteries. Listening skills assessed include listening comprehension, understanding words and passages, making inferences, and drawing conclusions. The oral reading tests cover areas such as pronunciation, omissions, insertions, hesitation in reading, and reading…

This collection of articles about children's literature contains the following articles: "Books in the Life of the Young Child" and "Traditional Literature: Children's Legacy" by Bernice E. Cullinan, "Encouraging Language Growth" by John Warren Stewig, "Promoting Language and Concept Development" by Dorothy S. Strickland, "Fostering Understanding…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 18 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the effect of illustrations on third grade students' attitudes toward the elderly; (2) visual and phonological coding in word processing by fourth, sixth, and…