Discusses List-Group-Preview, an activity that combines eliciting prior knowledge with guiding students through a new textbook chapter. (FL)

Reports on a study that investigated the reading interests of low ability junior and senior high readers of both sexes. Results indicate that readers of both sexes share some reading interests--among them topics dealing with the unusual. (HOD)

Concludes that second graders' self-reports of comprehension and liking were highly related to the performance measure of error detection for good readers but not for poor ones. (FL)

Reading interviews with 20 hearing impaired inner-city students (8-14 years old) elicited student perceptions about the home environment in relation to reading, functions of reading, desirable reading strategies, classroom practices, and feelings about reading. (CL)

This article examines the incidence of academic deficiency and functional illiteracy among offenders in a postsecondary prison education program. A descriptive analysis was conducted using aptitude test scores on reading, math, and language from 488 students in a medium security prison in Ohio. Results are presented and analyzed. (CT)

Discusses the type of second language reading ability that should be required for an advanced degree. Describes some exercises from a German course in reading that are helpful for students attempting to acquire this ability. (EKN)

Documents large differences in the reading of function and content words and how these differences change with development. (FL)

Concludes that when presented stories, some of which were inconsistent because of missing pages, less skilled readers were poorer at reporting a missing page, placing it correctly, and fixing the story than were skilled readers. Stories are appended. (FL)

Argues that the obligatory nature of functional literacy does not deprive the individual freedom of thought and opinion, and that voluntarism in basic adult education in the United States has greatly contributed to putting the nation at risk and to keeping it a nation at risk. (HOD)

Discusses several levels of mystery fiction for children and explains how these narratives extend and shape the literary reading habits of the young. (HOD)

Details a study designed to determine the effects of passage content (schemata) and syntactic structure (clause order) on the inferential comprehension of causal relations of fifth grade students. (FL)

Reveals that the cloze and comprehension test scores correlated at significant levels, thus supporting the predictive validity of the cloze procedure. (RB)

Notes that there are things that are at least as important as reading: speech itself, productivity, expressiveness, and social development. (Author)

Suggests a plan, developed at John Adams High School in New York, designed to help student teachers obtain some understanding of what can be done to help teenagers learn to read. (Author/RK)

Suggests a correlation between self-concept and reading ability and presents a checklist of behavioral objectives, teaching strategies, and associated affective qualities to facilitate reading instruction. (KS)