Notes that readers do not depend solely on the visual aspects of reading, but also make use of nonvisual understanding in decoding print. Among the nonvisual components of reading discussed are desiring knowledge, understanding the nature and purpose of reading, reading for meaning, and predicting an author's message. (MKM)

Analyzes the process of reading philosophical works. Considers reflective reading a performative act in which the genuine reader enters into a dialogue, questions, recollects, and rereads. (PD)

Discusses two research questions that literature teachers must continually answer--their students' reading interests and how well their students read a text. Shows how research has both complicated and clarified these questions. (RL)

Suggests that nontraditional students have strengths that should be used to help them respond to literature subjectively. These strengths include their life experiences, their use of oral language, their reliance upon the visual media, and a kind of self-centeredness that enables them to relate to literary characters' inner conflicts. (MKM)

Defends the need for the study of literature in the two-year college and notes how the term "subjective" can be misinterpreted by students, administrators, and the general public to mean "unnecessary." (MKM)

Argues for the inclusion and effective teaching of literature in the curriculum for vocational and technical students. (MKM)

Suggests that content reading teachers set goals for their reading assignments as a method of helping students learn from textbooks and read the assigned material critically.

Presents activities dealing with components of literature, literary devices, and persuasive material. (DD)

Describes two learning activity packages using printed words on commercial products for teaching children the major decoding skills of phonetic and structural analysis and the major comprehension skill areas of main idea, reading for details, sequence, determining cause and effect, drawing conclusions, and following directions. (Author/CMV)

Describes SQ10R, a system of reading hints and strategies similar to SQ3R (that is, survey, question, read, recite, and review). Suggests that SQ10R may be more helpful to developmental students. Briefly describes the system's 12 elements: survey, question, read, reflect, review, repeat, rethink, reintegrate, rehash, renote, rehearse, and reread.…

Proposes a critical-sociological approach to analyzing immigrant literature, noting that for many students, their only contact with immigrants may be through representations in children's literature. Examines how Chinese immigrants to the United States are represented in Laurence Yep's (1992) "The Star Fisher," discussing how the issues of race,…

Presents critical interpretations of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" from four points of view: the feminist reading; the reader response reading; a realistic reading; and a historic reading. Outlines classroom activities and follow up activities to use along with the four interpretations. (PM)

Describes the author's method of teaching literary analysis to "not particularly well-read students." Presents students with a set of over-generalizations which they are free to denounce, vilify, or modify as their exposure to literature progresses. Includes a class handout that describes characteristics of various literary movements in this…

Discusses the different requirements of teaching drama students and directing professionals. Outlines a range of dramaturgical action between working to support the artistic interests of an established playwright and instructing a novice playwright in basic approaches. Examines how thinking in terms of a spectrum from neophyte to veteran guides…

Proposes that e-mail peer response teaches students about audience and text. Explains that asynchronous electronic peer response helps students become better responders by: promoting a written exchange; using writing to express their thoughts, and giving them time and distance to think about their reactions. Proposes that this creates an…