Reading instruction should include training in detecting illogical and emotional appeals intended to influence and deceive the reader.

A parent who is also a teacher describes her child's experiences as a poor oral reader. (MKM)

Teaching active comprehension helps students learn to ask their own questions and guide their own thinking. (MKM)

Presents a four-step teaching procedure for helping students learn to identify main ideas, one of the skills they will need in order to succeed with materials at higher grade levels. (JM)

Suggests guidelines which will help school students develop good newspaper reading habits, in order to become more responsible citizens. (MB)

Discusses the differences between preliterate, literate, and multiliterate societies. Describes how societies move from the preliterate stage to literate and then to multiliterate, and speculates about the future of literacy. Includes a literacy chart. (SKC)

Elementary level learning disabled (N=32) and regular class children matched on reading age were given either general or specific instruction on how to use a cross-referencing technique to evaluate internal consistency of text. Subjects who received the explicit instruction demonstrated high performance in both comprehension monitoring and reading…

Establishes a framework for a pedagogically useful description of the organization of discussion sections in research-focused articles and dissertations for English-for-specific-purposes students. Descriptive categories within the framework include: background information; statement of result; outcome; exemplification; deduction; recommendation;…

Describes a community college project which incorporates literature into course content outside the English department to enhance students' ability to respond to subject matter and develop critical thinking skills. (NH)

Uses Grimm's fairy tales to teach students how to read critically for appropriate quotations and proper stylistics for including them in writing. (HTH)

Reports on techniques used by creationists to argue against evolution. They include intensifying or downplaying messages, omitting information, associating creationists beliefs with other beliefs, quoting out of context, and others. Also suggests that learning to read critically will help students evaluate creationists' rhetoric. (DH)

Recommends using improvised drama to foster students' sensitive and critical reading of literature. (AEA)

Suggests that classroom teachers write their own instructional software and presents a step-by-step description of how one primary reading teacher wrote a program to help second graders learn to distinguish fact from opinion. (AEA)

Argues that humorous books have the potential to brighten the classroom environment, motivate students, and develop reactive, thinking readers. (FL)

Argues that English departments should be concerned with critical reading and writing of all kinds of texts. Suggests that the same kind of careful criticism used in the study of advertising should be used to evaluate literature, music, movies, and the other arts, with the immediate goal being a more self-conscious awareness of verbal and…