To cope with a wide range of reading skill levels in their classes, high school social studies teachers must assess their students' competence and then help them develop skills to understand course materials. This article describes two assessment methods and five skill teaching methods. For journal availability, see SO 509 175. (AM)

Success in the study of literature depends on the student's ability to establish connections between word and object, between words and phrases, and between memorable experiences in all fields of learning and the reading of literature, which is interdisciplinary by nature. In understanding a literary work, a reader must make affective memory…

Intended to provide an outlet for systematic and substantive reviews, both empirical and theoretical, and for extended integrative reports of programatic research, this volume focuses on the nature of reading and reading disabilities, with implications for both theory and practice. The first chapter of the book reports on a long-term study of the…