This article describes an approach to designing culturally responsive literacy centers. Aligned with Gholdy Muhammad's (2020) Historically Responsive Literacy model, we reimagine literacy centers as responsive to children from historically marginalized backgrounds. We present a five-question tool that teachers can use as they plan for literacy…

This article presents general implications for using interactive electronic picture books in the classroom. The suggestions are rooted in research with middle grades readers in a tutoring setting and kindergarten through fourth-grade classroom settings. Specific attention is given toward those features in eBooks that may distract, support, or…

Paraphrasing, somewhat different from retelling and summarizing, helps students monitor their understanding and incorporate new knowledge with what they already know about a topic. Paraphrasing helps students realize that comprehension is the goal of reading.

Contains a humorous dialog between a university professor and the director of a district educational center, describing some of the effects of specialization in reading. (RB)

Presents guidelines for teachers who would like to set up a reading center but are unclear about where to start. (RB)

Using books written by children to stock a reading center improved not only the center, but the children's abilities and attitudes as well. (Author)

Tells how to make contracts effective in guiding and stimulating children's independent classroom work on specific reading skills. (Author/RB)

Describes reading center activities that take advantage of the citizen's band radio craze to capture student's attention and interest. (HOD)

Provides insights and procedures used in clinical approaches to reading diagnosis and suggests ways classroom teachers might use them. (FL)

Presents results of a survey to determine the characteristics, organizational patterns, instructional methods, and current trends in university reading clinics in the United States. (FL)

Suggests classroom activities appropriate for disabled readers, including thematic approaches, whole language activities, writing in response to reading, incentives and competition, and relaxation techniques. (JAD)

Describes the Topeka Public Schools Reading Clinic, Centers, and Services, which provide inservice work for teachers, remediation for children, and concentrated clinical diagnosis. Bibliography. (RW)

Contributors suggest techniques for teaching kindergarten children to read, celebrating Black Heritage Week, developing critical reading and thinking skills, building a classroom library, motivating young readers, and involving parents in reading instruction. (FL)