Learners are increasingly accessing free online and open resources, tools, and spaces where they can develop their language skills beyond the classroom, alone, or in collaboration with others, and often whilst engaging in purposeful and enjoyable activities. Teachers need to find ways to explore and connect these activities productively with the…

The concept of readability has had a variable history, moving from a position where it was considered as a very important topic for those responsible for producing texts and matching those texts to the abilities and needs of learners, to its current declining visibility in the education literature. Some important work has been coming from the USA…

The Common Core State Standards' emphasis on informational text arose in part from research suggesting that employers and college instructors found students weak at comprehending technical manuals, scientific and historical journals, and other texts pivotal to work in those arenas. The common core's vision of informational text includes literary…

Content area teachers at the secondary level often complain that the students are unwilling or unable to read and comprehend the textbooks. Yet these teachers have seldom had instruction in the teaching of reading. They state that teaching of reading is someone else's job. They state that they need to progress through the entire textbook, and that…

Concludes that individual professional textbooks on secondary reading do not necessarily reflect the extant information base or state-of-the-art in secondary reading. (GT)

The purpose of this study was to examine how secondary teachers have been taught to teach reading-to-learn over the last four decades, and to teach the struggling and reluctant readers in their classes. In this study, twelve secondary reading methods textbooks were analyzed. The textbooks were chosen based on four criteria: (a) availability, (b)…

Since most secondary school reading textbooks give home economics only minimal attention, this paper identifies selected information sources in home economics reading skills and in home economics for high school reading specialists. The first portion of the paper discusses eight principle problems that home economics poses for secondary school…

VOCABULARY LEVEL, INTEREST LEVEL, AUTHOR, TITLE, AND PUBLISHER ARE LISTED FOR 2,129 BOOKS. BOOKS ARE LISTED BY VOCABULARY LEVEL WHICH RANGES FROM PRIMER TO GRADE 7. INTEREST LEVEL RANGE IS FROM PRIMER TO GRADE 12. CONTRIBUTING PUBLISHERS AND THEIR ADDRESSES ARE PROVIDED. (MY)

Describes a technique for training teachers to analyze textbooks that could be used either in teacher training classes or inservice workshops. (HOD)

The paper describes an approach to teaching phonics to hearing impaired 12-15 year olds through a microcomputer. Under the guidance of a teacher, a standard phonics textbook is paired with phonetic and phonologic practice on the computer. Students proceed through the materials at their own pace. Three phases of learning are featured: (1) exposure…

Contains a list of 53 selected references on research in secondary reading instruction, followed by a further categorization of the contents under fifteen subdivisions. (RB)

Suggests that using the scientific method's five steps--recognize the problem, collect facts, form hypotheses, test hypotheses, form a conclusion--can help teachers of any subject help their students read with deeper understanding. (FL)

Describes a procedure for helping students to reorganize text structured by listing. Details a study proving the effectiveness of the technique. (AEA)

Describes a method of individualizing textbook reading assignments. (MKM)

Shows that it is necessary to spend time to teach students how to read their mathematics textbooks. Finds that instruction related to skills and strategies for reading students' mathematics textbook aided students in their ability to complete homework assignments. (SR)