Author Victor Moeller contends that authentic learning begins only when teachers challenge students with real questions that demand solutions. Here, he aims to help teachers of the next generation develop skills of independent, reflective, and critical thinking with this book. It explains how to use film to bring Shakespeare to life through…

The impetus for writing the history of the College Reading Association (CRA) came from charges given to the historians by President Judy Richardson on November 24, 1995. She took the charges from the "Procedural Practices Manual," which mandate the preparation of a series of 5-year highlights of the CRA. This history begins by stating…

Proposes a Gestalt version of the word family approach to phonics instruction as a way of reducing the number of phonetic units a child must learn to gain total phonetic control of the English language. (TO)

Develops three lines of reasoning relating to the proposition that performance in reading, after the basic decoding skills are mastered, is primarily an indicator of the general level of the individual's thinking and reasoning processes rather than a set of distinct and specialized skills. (TO)

Applies a taxonomy to a review of the methods used to study mental processes in reading that divides the methods into simultaneous or successive and obtrusive or unobtrusive; the taxonomy proved useful in describing encoding and memory processes. (AEA)

The study involving 24 normal, 24 learning disabled (LD), and 18 deaf elementary-age Ss investigated the hypothesis that nonstrategic verbal encoding abilities are deficient in LD readers. Results were interpreted to indicate a deficient verbal-visual integrative process in disabled children occurring prior to the application of mnemonic…

Research on the use of linguistic context (prediction of a word by using the text) in reading showed that children were better at using the preceding context and good readers used the suceeding context better. The study could not determine whether good readers used better strategies or were more skillful at using strategies. (Author/MJL)

Argues that metacognition gives a framework for understanding earlier studies on the relationship between reading rate and text characteristics and points toward an explanation for reading flexibility. (FL)

Examines the various approaches to reading instruction, their merits and shortcomings, and advocates a blend of all approaches for literacy that is fulfilling rather than mechanical. (HTH)

Examines the reading processes of dyslexic children and discusses schema theory and story grammar, two concepts popular with those who espouse the top-down model of the reading process. (HTH)

Analyzes a shift in the view of the reading process and suggests a modified view of the learning-to-read process as a constructive process. (MKM)