Describes a game which enhances spelling skills, improves pronunciation, stretches vocabularies, increases listening abilities, and develops a new interest in words. (Author/MB)

Hypothesis was confirmed that more familiar and more ambiguous concepts would be less readily named in their less detailed representations. (Author/MB)

Author describes her strategy for getting her fifth graders to write good reports by letting them grow" from one report to the next. (Author/DR)

The educational project described reveals that trainable mentally handicapped children, ranging in age from 11 to 14 years, can learn to recognize words and then teach the words to other children in their class. (CB)

Offers strategies to motivate adult basic readers to learn one of the "One-Two Hundred Most Commonly Written Words" lists. (MM)

The question of how to account for the growth of vocabulary knowledge that occurs during the elementary school years is addressed. Areas examined include the ways that word meanings are communicated, direct teaching of meanings, vocabulary instruction as part of reading instruction, and deriving and learning word meanings from verbal context.…

Discusses some of the difficulties in vocabulary learning and gives suggestions for building vocabulary in meaningful contexts. (EKN)

Suggests that industrial arts students need to be able to read and understand the vocabulary of their chosen professions. Describes a study that investigated students' knowledge by presenting a task that required the selection of occupational terms corresponding to written definitions. Includes teaching strategies. (JOW)

Replicates an earlier study that concluded that skilled comprehenders were relatively unaffected by whether a word was known. (HOD)

The focus of this review is on children's verbalized knowledge about various aspects of reading (gained primarily from interviews) rather than the regulation of that knowledge, which tends to be the other well-represented division in metacognitive research. (Author/CT)