This teacher education instructor's manual begins with some assumptions about reading and reading achievement and with recommendations for the course instructor. The major portion of the manual describes activities to help teachers match students and materials, master prereading skills to help teach reading in content areas, and understand the…

An outline is presented for a secondary level course in reading designed for the Dade County, Florida, public schools. The course is primarily designed to teach students how to select reading materials at their reading levels, determine their reading rates, and adapt reading pace to various kinds of materials depending on the kind of information…

A college survival skills course, designed to help college-bound high school seniors develop an efficient, organized approach to college reading and study skills, is described in this paper. After outlining the steps taken in developing and promoting the course, the paper notes favorable reactions to it, lists the course textbooks, and describes…

In response to the need for improvement of reading instruction, a committee of secondary reading specialists developed this guidebook, which allows for three distinct levels of usage: as a curriculum guide for administrators and counselors, offering expanded course descriptions of all reading classes offered at the secondary level; as a reference…

This is a supplement to the Advanced Placement (AP) German literature course description. Its aim is both to assist teachers in planning an AP German literature course and to provide experienced AP teachers with information about other successful programs. To this end, six teachers from different high schools in the U.S. provide descriptions of…