Why do adolescents happily read some texts but fiercely resist reading others? Why do some teens read widely while others almost never read? This book shows how to find answer these questions--and more--by observing adolescents complex relationships with reading and letting them explain why they resist or engage with text. Author Anne Reeves…

Reading and writing are interrelated. What has been read provides material for writing. This paper focuses on reading endeavors that provide subject matter for writing. The paper first recommends reading poetry to the class and states that the teacher should have ready for use an anthology of children's literature. Children can write poems for…

The biggest campaign ever to improve the reading achievement of America's children is going on right now. The United States Department of Education, the National Institute for Literacy, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the United States Department of Health and Human Services--all members of the Partnership for…

Beginning with a series of interactive exercises, this book leads readers through the thinking processes and linguistic systems that students use to build their understanding of text. Through a review of these systems, the book then shows how to assess students' reading ability. It then presents an easy-to-use, step-by-step diagnostic procedure,…

The aim of the present thesis was to investigate high-school students' metamemory and metacomprehension of texts. In three studies, the students read texts and then made prospective as well as retrospective ratings of their own immediate and delayed performance (i.e., measured via text recall and answering performance of comprehension questions).…

This paper describes new approaches to data collection and analysis utilizing technology-assisted methods that are now possible in online studies of reading. Two techniques are described in detail, one supporting a non-intrusive method for real-time data collection during online reading, and a second describing a new method for visualizing and…

Hearing poetry read aloud should help pupils to achieve feelings of being relaxed and reenergized. Poetry might help pupils to achieve vital objectives in reading. Phonics instruction could become an inherent part of the reading of poems. For example, a student teacher and a cooperating teacher introduced pupils to a unit on "Poetry with…

Reports a study concluding that first grade children did not have strong preconceptions of letter-sound relationships when they entered school but their year-end responses were significantly more like adult responses. No differences were found between speakers of black English and white English. (TO)

An alternative approach to reading can be based on a Piagetian process called decentering''--getting outside one's own frame of reference, the immediate circumstances of here and now, and one's immediate visceral reaction. (MM)

Examines the individual differences on reading tasks observed in the reading behavior of children and adults. (Author/RB)

Results suggested that the ability to manipulate the phonetic components of the spoken language has an important bearing on the development of reading skill. (Authors)