The fact that comprehension is a topic that ranges across many fields is shown by the variety of subjects and areas that are considered in this bibliography. Entries are arranged under the following eight sections: Cloze, Critical Reading and Creativity, Factors, Language, Readability, Skills, Theory, and Thinking. A few of the many articles…

This International Reading Association publication presents a view of the problems of reading in the content fields as they relate to the secondary school curriculum. The first part deals with the beginning and the growth of a comprehensive reading program at the University of Chicago Laboratory School. Eleven of the school's faculty provide…

The fact that comprehension is a topic that ranges across many fields is shown by the variety of subjects and areas that are considered in this bibliography. Entries are arranged under the following eight sections: Cloze, Critical Reading and Creativity, Factors, Language, Readability, Skills, Theory, and Thinking. A few of the many articles…

The references listed in this annotated bibliography are organized into three major categories: (1) The Process of Critical Reading, (2) Research on Critical Reading, and (3) The Teaching of Critical Reading. The first category includes standard texts, theory-oriented volumes, a few books directed at the popular market, periodical articles, and…

The skills listed in this booklet may form the base guideline for organizing the total school reading program or for individual classroom teachers. Several reasons are listed for constructing a reading program around a sequential listing of skills: (1) an orderly arrangement, (2) diagnosis, (3) blueprint for organizing flexible groups, (4) goal…

A reading program was conducted with four students (grades 5-6) whose reading abilities were at the grade 2 level. The students evaluated children's reading materials to determine positive and negative features. Aspects of the program discussed are: approaching the group, design, process, bilingual aspects, rating system, and findings. (EC)

Describes a four-step approach to help students evaluate the news reports that they hear and read. (RL)

Outlines can be used before and after reading textual material to improve recall and comprehension. (MKM)

Examines the nature of early school reading material and its distinct discourse structures, which are used to present possible social worlds and characters to children. Argues that understanding the interpretive challenges and problems that such texts present to children aids teachers in enhancing literacy. (RAE)

Advocates an adaptation of Raymond Geuss's critical methodology to help students become critical theorists in the composition classroom. (MM)

Combines Marxist notions of ideology with the theory of reader response to reveal the subjectivity of reading, in general. Foreign language reading, in particular, not only involves the understanding of text but the cultural and literary aspects of the target language as well. (CB)

Examines the relations among general language competency factors such as word knowledge, comprehension, and paradigmatic/syntagmatic reasoning, and college developmental readers' ability to interpret two text formats designed to elicit either a literal or figurative interpretation. (DF)

Discusses how Lord Tennyson's poetry and Chief Seathl's writings reflect radically different world views and presuppositions about man's relationship to other animals and the environment. Advocates schools either teach students techniques enabling them to uncover bias or have them read materials more in accord with ecologically sound…

The author illustrates reasons for teaching social studies by describing scenarios, about elementary and secondary students, that might occur on any given day anywhere in the United States. The scenarios involve the use of decision-making skills, map skills, critical reading, and knowledge of how government works. (Author/RM)

These 10th and 11th grade lessons plans related to the Great Depression and the novel "The Grapes of Wrath" help students to: develop research skills and strategies, such as keyword searches, for finding information; recognize and use the different voices of migrants; and understand the politics of migration and the Great Depression. By…