Suggests several ways to motivate adolescents in selecting books for individual reading in the English classroom; stresses the importance of positive attitudes toward reading. (MAI)

Outlines a free reading program that involves students in producing audiovisual materials to create interest in books. (MAI)

Describes a cooperative program where a teacher and media specialist use public relations techniques to promote reading and class discussion. (MAI)

Provides guidelines for the high school professor of French literature, including materials selection and teaching methods. (AM)

Suggests using children's classics to promote interest in reading and lists several favorites in the categories of adventure, humor and fantasy, stories of family life, and historical fiction and history. (MKM)

Describes how to select functional materials and techniques for teaching reading survival skills. (DD)

Describes an initial effort that utilizes the rapid speed and large storage capacity of the digital computer to aid in matching adolescent readers' characteristics to book characteristics. (Author)

Presents brief annotations of 30 children's trade books published in 1996 considered to be outstanding for their enhancement of language awareness among students in grades K-8. (SR)

Presents brief annotations of 30 newly published trade books for children and adolescents that teachers find to be exceptional in curriculum use, that also make good reading aloud at home, and that offer interesting information. Groups books into primary, intermediate, and advanced levels. (SR)

Presents brief annotations of 29 children's books that engage children's curiosity and promote divergent thinking. Highlights books that encourage readers to be curious, analytical, critical, reflective, and self-aware. (SR)

Offers 46 brief annotations of recent children's books, many of which are excellent models for stories that children might develop. Groups books into story collections, stories about us, life stories, too-good-to-miss stories, nature's stories, stories that inform, story sequels, and story retellings. (SR)

Presents brief annotations of 46 childrens books that explore the purposes, playfulness, and poetic beauty of words used to communicate in both oral and written forms. (SR)

Presents brief annotations of 41 children's books that invite readers to engage in explorations: explorations into the past, of new paths, of the mind, of nature, across the miles, and of the unknown. (SR)

Notes that pupils need to have opportunities to select challenging reading materials and need chances to read on an individual basis as well as in group work situations. Notes that interest and purpose in reading are important. (RS)