Describes the insights into themselves and the reading process gained by eight sighted students who learned to read braille. (DD)

Offers an overview of ERIC resources that can assist in making a microcomputer purchase. (AEA)

Describes how Edmund Burke Huey's "The Psychology and Pedagogy of Reading" helped shape and change the author's concepts of reading. (DD)

Describes using a model of direct instruction, called EMQA (Explanation, Modeling, Questioning, and Application), as a framework for teaching the rules of summary writing. Argues that teaching students to summarize increases their comprehension of expository text. (SR)

It is the transformation and fusion of the reader and text into something greater than each alone that makes reading a mysterious, visionary process. (HOD)

Describes how Carl Jung's four personality types might relate to the selection of particular reading instruction methods. (RB)

How the Greeks taught reading is not only historically interesting but also relevant to educational concerns today. (JT)

Describes a questionnaire designed to discover how reading affects students' lives. (RB)

Argues that for tribe members in Thailand's primitive mountain areas, learning to read can provide an entirely new outlook on life. (RB)

Representatives of the various national affiliates reported on International Reading Association activities in their countries while attending the Second European Seminar held in Paris in December, 1973. (RB)

Discusses the use of newspapers as an instructional resource and reviews some of the materials that contain ideas and suggest practices for using the newspaper in the classroom. (RB)

Describes how one reading consultant allocated time to meet the major responsibilities outlined in a job description. (RB)

Argues that to be effective the reading teacher must be strong but sensitive at the same time. (RB)

Describes an Adult Basic Education reading program currently in operation in Baltimore County, Maryland. (RB)