Investigates the relationship of reading ability and age to children's recall of expository text after reading and analyzes children's sensitivity to text structure. (MKM)

Reports on a study of the attitudes of 50 middle and high school content area teachers with respect to evaluation and to teaching strategies and reading skills in the areas of decoding, comprehension, reference and study skills, and vocabulary. (TJ)

Reports on an experiment with a three-hour teaching unit used with an eighth-grade class in Germany. Describes the planning and carrying out of each of the three class hours, discussing, for each step, the content, methodology, and utilization of media. Concludes with an overall evaluation. (IFS/WGA)

The rule assessment approach was used to examine five-, eight-, eleven-, and twenty-year-olds' concepts of time, speed, and distance. (CM)

Emphasizes the teaching of basic listening skills in the literature and remedial reading classroom; presents a guide to current producers and distributors of commercially available audio programs and notes the curriculum areas into which they fit. (MAI)

Discusses problems that students encounter in reading content area textbooks; presents learning activities in the areas of word recognition, vocabulary, comprehension, and study skills. (MAI)

A schema-based framework for representing knowledge and prose organization was studied. Testing of a script pointer and tag hypothesis confirmed that memory discrimination is better for atypical actions in a passage than for typical script actions and that there is no memory discrimination for very typical actions. (SW)

An Englishwoman who had had no lessons in the Spanish language but had developed oral skills while on vacation in Spanish-speaking countries began reading Spanish newspapers and observed her reading processes. (CFM)

The four parts in this section present: (1) an advertisement based on the literary style of Emile Zola; (2) exercises designed to practice expressions of similarity and difference; (3) the transcript of a discussion on the problem of swamps; and (4) variations on the shopkeeper-customer dialogue. (AM)

Reports an investigation of the effectiveness of "Speedway: The Action Way to Read" in increasing the reading rate and efficiency of adult readers. (FL)

Examined the validity of Bruner's theory that any subject can be made appropriate for any child at any stage of development. This was not valid with the topic of the Civil War. However, with the topic of the Great Depression, the opposite results were found, and Bruner's theory partially confirmed. (Author/BEF)

Suggests that teachers must integrate the instruction of language and content if they wish to develop fully their students' cognitive abilities. (MKM)

Findings of experiments conducted with two groups of 12-year-olds--ten good spellers and ten poor spellers, all of equal reading achievement--suggested that the poor spellers were proficient at going from print to meaning but were impaired at converting print to sound. (GT)

Discusses how reading literature should be taught in cultures different from the United States as well as in the United States. (Author/RK)