Results indicate that while amount of newspaper reading does not covary with knowledge of city affairs, the reasons why people read newspapers matter. If people read to learn about municipal politics, they tend to be taught. If they read for fun, they learn little. Media effects depend on motives of media users. (PD)

Analyzes two commonly used reading programs and indicates their implications for the mainstreamed learning disabled child. (FL)

Reports on a study in which high and low ability elementary school students pronounced synthetic words exemplifying certain phoneme grapheme correspondences. Compares these pronunciations to principle pronunciations indicated from type counts of letters and clusters appearing in a selected word corpus. Concludes that the technique led to greater…

Reports on a study that analyzed the reading and television viewing behavior of over 7,500 students and found that reading for pleasure should be emphasized and television viewing more carefully monitored by teachers and parents. (AEA)

Offers suggestions from eight contributors, including (1) activities for speedy readers, (2) conducting a "reading roundup," (3) improving children's math vocabulary, (4) teaching syllabication, (5) displaying student work, and (6) ideas for parents of beginning readers. (FL)

Presents suggestions from five contributors including how to develop middle school students' library skills, teaching early reading through materials from a fast food restaurant chain, and ways to conduct student evaluation of teachers. (FL)

Reports data gained from observations and interviews with reading teachers and administrators in Mexico concerning teacher experience, classroom environment, teaching methods, and materials used in reading instruction. (FL)

Offers a model which is intended to facilitate the processing of ideational relationships within a paragraph and which is composed of three distinct parts: (1) direct teaching, (2) functional application, and (3) increased student interaction with the text. (FL)

Finds support for the concurrent validity of miscue analysis as a measure of the silent reading processes of elementary school students with respect to the dimensions of syntactic and semantic strength. (FL)

Provides limited support for the use of newspapers in school. Concludes that the Newspaper in Education (NIE) program does not necessarily increase newspaper readership in adult life. (RL)

Reviewed theoretical and empirical work in phonological recoding, concluding that phonological representation is used to aid comprehension and suggesting that decoding graphemic information into a phonological form is important for early readers. Asserts that future research should examine differences in the use of visual versus phonological…

Concludes that training in oral language skills may be critical to improving the reading performance of beginning readers. (FL)

Concludes that there is a need for a broader-based compensatory reading program at the college freshman and sophomore levels. (FL)

A study conducted with 20 good and 20 poor first-grade readers suggested that the ability to induce grapheme-phoneme relationships was much more strongly related to reading ability than was receptive vocabulary. Good readers appeared to apply a principled solution to a word-learning task, while poor readers used an associative solution. (Author/GT)

Describes a nine-step instructional sequence for teaching older disabled readers how to complete job application forms. Provides research findings in support of the program, as well as a sample employment application that includes items frequently appearing on actual job applications. (JT)