This article discusses how to implement paired reading with developing readers to foster students' fluency and reading comprehension. The teacher first helps students comprehend the story with focused discussion questions and the completion of a beginning, middle, and end (B-M-E) chart. Then, the teacher scaffolds students to do the oral reading…

This report captures the variety of music education research between 2012-2014 and covers a range of topics and events such as the International Society for Music Education (ISME) 2012, Australian Society for Music Education (ASME) 2013 and Australian and New Zealand Association for Research in Music Education (ANZARME) 2014.

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 21 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the effects of a six-months school entrance age difference on reading, mathematics, and language achievement in primary school children; (2) relationships…

This 81-item annotated bibliography offers a survey of materials available on listening in educational, business, and relationship contexts. The bibliography includes books, journal articles, textbooks and instructional materials, and assessment instruments dating from 1971 to 1989. Not included in the bibliography are texts in speech…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 14 titles deal with the following topics: observable behaviors and verbal responses elicited by a specific listening task; the relationship between oral spelling, auditory sequencing, and vocal rhythm; the effect of listening…

Arguing that a powerful teaching technique teachers can use for developing students' comprehension strategies is direct instruction in the thinking strategies used for various comprehension tasks, this paper: presents characteristics of 25 tradebooks appropriate for the application of various comprehension strategies; gives specific examples of…

This annotated bibliography lists research on current practices and selected new practices in the teaching of reading comprehension. The introduction states the problem, the purpose of the study, its organization and limitations, and includes a glossary of terms. The 29 annotations are in two broad categories: research dealing with classroom…

Explains that comprehension is a mental process that depends on prior knowledge, experience, and information in the text. Contends that fostering the development of children's comprehension abilities is one of the most critical roles of an effective teacher. Describes websites that provide information on comprehension as well as sites that provide…

The materials described are designed for use in all areas of French language teaching and are obtainable in the United Kingdom. Sources may be located in the book through a subject-area index and through an alphabetically arranged title index. Included in each of the 687 entries are the entry's number, author's name, title of the publication,…

The annotated bibliography on reading instruction for the mentally handicapped contains approximately 60 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents published from 1962 to 1974 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC).…

Intended for teachers, this monograph encourages educators to think critically both about critical reading and about what constitutes instruction of critical thinking in schools. The book contains the following chapters: (1) "Crisis in Confidence: The Need for Learner-Centered Schools"; (2) "A Mechanistic World View: Knowledge as…

The aim of this bibliography is to provide a reference on the cloze procedure that will be useful to both the practitioner and the researcher. The selection of material was made on the basis of the following criteria: the importance of the source as a contribution to cloze research; the extent and usefulness of the source's bibliography as a guide…

Because prediction plays such a vital role in reading comprehension, predictable books are essential in the teaching of beginning readers. Prediction involves a three-step cycle: sampling, predicting, and confirming. Steps in using predictable books with hearing-impaired students are outlined, and a list of predictable and repetitive books is…

Presents an annotated bibliography of 12 research articles, all related to reader response theory and its applications to the English classroom. (HB)

This annotated bibliography, intended for researchers and teachers, lists materials about reading while listening. The entries are organized into five sections: materials for reading while listening, descriptions and assessments of reading-while-listening methods, empirical studies of reading-while-listening methods, theoretical issues related to…