This article examines teaching methods for developing foreign language comprehension in students, with attention to methods of testing comprehension. Reading materials should include journals, newspapers, and items concerning teenage culture. The English summary of a French text is recommended for testing comprehension; examples of this exercise…

Enumerates the benefits for young children of interactive reading--that which involves the reader and the listener in an active, shared experience. Furnishes the titles of several children's books appropriate for the practice of interactive reading in the classroom. (NKA)

Discusses the special needs of gifted children and the role that public libraries may serve in supporting these children. The areas discussed include personal contact and assistance, access to adult level research materials and reference tools, library use instruction, reading guidance, and specialized library activities. (46 references) (CLB)

Examines the influence of teachers, age, sex, and race on the reading preferences of third, fourth, and fifth grade pupils. Concludes that the tested variables do explain differences, but that there are more similarities than differences. (RS)

Describes ten practical ideas for classroom teaching at the elementary level, including "roulette" writing, story map raps, and theme cubes. (MM)

Describes Fiction Finder, a microcomputer program which retrieves children's fiction by subject, reading level, interest level, sex of protagonist, length, and a brief annotation. Programming issues described include editing of entries, adding new titles, arranging output alphabetically by author, individualizing the system, simultaneous operation…

Discusses the role of the English teacher in teaching reading. Concludes that successful instruction is comprised of interaction between students and the teacher, sound methods, and appropriate materials. (FL)

Argues that by introducing young children to books that portray parents in positive images, teachers can provide a source from which children can view the world positively. Includes suggestions for selecting books that portray parents. (HOD)

Explores some of the issues raised when teachers are committed to giving students choice over the literature they encounter and over the ways they respond to it. (HOD)

Examines how Alan Durban's rewriting of Shakespeare's plays changes the meanings and beauty of the original works. (CRH)

Discusses how fantasy books can be used in the classroom to provide exercises for the imagination, to allow students to see themselves more clearly, to allow them to escape, and to generate hope. (CRH)

Discusses the appeal of adolescent novels and the debate over whether to include them in the curriculum. (CRH)

Describes a program designed to build a literate environment to meet the strengths and needs of Job Corps trainees. (AEA)

There is nothing in the theory of language teaching which prescribes that communication skills need be acquired through any specialised context in order to be used in that context. In the teaching of scientific English, not only scientific topics but a whole range of motivational stimuli can be tapped. (Author/CFM)

Describes a study conducted to determine college student preferences for reading in the study of French. Recommendations are made on the premise that individual interests should be taken into consideration in selection of reading materials. (AM)