Four different approaches to giving the student access to any educational resources which may help him to define and achieve his own goals are discussed: Reference Services to Educational Objects, Skill Exchange, and Peer Matching, and Reference Services to Educators-at-large. (JM)

Argues that most reading skills are more applicable to expository material and suggests that overuse of fiction in the primary grades is a frustrating experience contributing to disinterest in reading. Tables and bibliography. (RW)

The physical education department of the Pennsylvania Advancement School of Philadelphia has established a reading and communication skill project that uses the appeal of sports to help students improve their basic skills. (Author)

A lesson, "Harriet Tubman: A Most Successful Conductor," illustrates how to employ a basal reader in social studies instruction in the elementary grades. This approach offers students a relevant curriculum, greater opportunities for concept development, practice in skills areas, and activities that offer greater opportunity to master…

Comments on the preceding article by Bogdan, and discusses how to help college students in qualitative methods courses to develop analytic and synthetic skills in the presentation and formulation of research problems. (GC)