As part of the work from the Content Area Reading Project (CARP), which focuses on inservice teacher education in content area reading, this paper provides an overview of inservice content area reading within the CARP model. The first section of the paper reviews the literature on inservice education and indicates the serious problems with…

To provide some understanding of current reading methodology, this paper traces the history of reading instruction from ancient times to pre-Revolutionary America and examines the influences exerted upon that instruction by religion. The major portion of the paper discusses the cultures, religions, and educational systems of ancient Egypt;…

Forty-six members of the college of education at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, were surveyed to determine the status of reading instruction within that college. The faculty members taught a total of 114 courses in six departments: health and physical education, vocational education, recreation, special education, elementary…

A study was conducted to determine whether a home based parent involvement reading program would (1) increase the frequency with which parents engaged in reading activities with their children, and (2) improve the children's reading attitudes and achievement. Divided into experimental and control groups, 240 7- and 8-year-old children were…

Nonformal educational programs, which are frequently characterized by their transmission of knowledge outside the limitations and role expectations of the traditional classroom, exist today as they have throughout the past. Among the common characteristics of the diverse nonformal educational programs throughout the world is their responsiveness…

A study was undertaken to address the question of how an undergraduate reading specialization program for preservice teachers affected the theoretical orientation of students enrolled in it. The program in question required students to complete seven courses. For purposes of the study, the coursework was divided into three components: an…

The parent's role in the education of young learning disabled (LD) children is examined, and research is cited on the effects of learning facilitating experiences (LFEs) on reading achievement. Good readers in fourth, fifth, and sixth grade realized the following seven LFEs most frequently: parental desire for higher education for the adult;…

A great deal of time could be saved in all grades and for all content areas if a truly phonic alphabet were developed. This alphabet would have only one symbol for each sound and only one sound for each symbol so that beginning readers could learn to pronounce any word they could see and spell any word they could pronounce correctly. Such an…

The increased interest in reading comprehension by researchers in fields other than reading education is noted in this paper. In addition, the concerns of the new researchers in reading are described, some of the terms they are using are explained, and the implications of their findings for reading instruction are explored. The interests of…

This issue contains the following articles and features: (1) "Information for English Teachers"; (2) "The Right to Read in Any Language," by Wilga Rivers; (3) "Applying Theoretical Principles to the Teaching of Reading Comprehension," by Ahuva Weiss; (4) "Social and Economic Influences on English Teaching,"…

Teaching practices in Italy, where teachers combine three different methods for teaching reading, may provide insight into ways to improve methodologies in the United States. The first method is the natural method, which, unlike American methods, teaches reading and writing simultaneously with the emphasis on writing. The teacher writes as…

The 34 summaries contained in this collection represent the theoretical positions and the empirical studies of a wide variety of investigators currently working in the field of language comprehension. The entries summarize contributions from the areas of assessment, artificial intelligence, cognition (including schema theory), instruction,…

A six-year-long study investigated the reading instructional strategies used by elementary school teachers and identified those strategies used by effective and less effective teachers. At two-year intervals, all third and sixth grade teachers who taught reading in self-contained classrooms were classified as high, average, or low effective…

This guide is intended to provide practical, hands-on materials for local school district personnel to use in improving the home-school-community relations of schools using the Wisconsin Design for Reading Skill Development (WDRSD). The guide describes "simformation," a simulation-information exercise designed to increase parental…

Before an effective program can be developed to help the remedial writing student, instructors must dispel the myth that college students can read college level materials. Related to this assumption is the belief that those who cannot read in college cannot do so because of a lack of intelligence. Clearly what is important in understanding the…