There are many reading abilities that students need in order to read and comprehend effectively in the content areas. Discussed are techniques that the teacher can use to make students critical and independent readers. These include the directed reading activity, SQ3R, mapping, the cloze procedure, and various vocabulary techniques. (RM)

Establishing music as an integral part of the elementary curriculum is one of the most pressing challenges facing music educators. The tremendous motivational power of music should be utilized in education. Four music activities which can be used with elementary students to reinforce reading activities are described. (RM)

Discusses the procedures and rationale for teaching students to connect new words with gestures or psychomotor meaning as well as semantic meaning. (HTH)

A collection of ideas for class activities in elementary and secondary language classes includes a vocabulary review exercise and games of memory, counting, vocabulary, flashcard tic-tac-toe, dice, trashcans, questioning, and spelling. Some are designed specifically for French. (MSE)

Describes an exercise to develop students' vocabulary using the more complex language on popular television programs. (HTH)

Reviews numerous meaning-based vocabulary methods that use comparing, contrasting, making analogies, or developing examples of concepts and relates them to the adult basic education setting. (JOW)

Provides several typical negative sentence structures, discusses why children find them difficult, and suggests how to begin teaching them to handle negatives. (FL)

Examines workbooks designed to accompany primary grade basal readers to determine the incidence of new vocabulary words they contain. Found that, with one exception, the workbooks all contained at least 30 percent new words--words not introduced in previous levels or at the levels for which the workbooks were designed. (FL)

Describes a way in which a microcomputer can be used as a basis for individualized instruction in reading and word meaning. (FL)

Offers suggestions designed to increase parental interest in attending school meetings, to encourage students to be self-sufficient, and to increase students' vocabulary skills. (AEA)

Suggests an approach to teaching reading skills in German or other foreign languages. The student is encouraged to read a passage and attempt to decipher vocabulary for himself and to develop positive reading habits to be used in other reading exercises. (CHK)

Review for workers in information science of the development of Permuterm Subject Index (PSI) of the Science Citation Index (SCI). (KP)

Describes an experiment conducted among the 20 students of a fourth-semester college Spanish class to evaluate vocabulary teaching as a means of vocabulary expansion. Student-to-student teaching with illustrations was employed. (Author/KM)

Research has shown that students can be taught to comprehend the material better while they are reading. Successful instruction of this type has usually focused on the teaching of comprehension strategies--that is, intentional actions students can use during reading to guide their thinking. Such strategies improve both understanding and memory.…

To do well in reading, students need to have a well-developed vocabulary on their own developmental level. The vocabulary a student possesses provides background information so that meaningful reading of new content can occur. A language-rich learning environment is necessary for students to thrive in the listening, speaking, reading, and writing…