Argues that predictive reading, making informed guesses about what will happen in a story, can be valuable in developing students' scientific attitudes and habits of thought. (RS)

Reviews ERIC materials dealing with relative and absolute definitions of literacy. (FL)

Reports an interview between the instructor in a university undergraduate reading methods course and the reading supervisor for a public school. The interview suggests that collaboration between colleges and public schools can strengthen preservice teacher education by helping students bridge the gap between preparation and practice. (FL)

Learning disabled students with lack of fluency in oral reading may be helped to experience a "feel" for fluency through any of six alternative reading techniques: (1) imitative reading, (2) repeated readings, (3) radio reading, (4) phrase reading, (5) paired reading, and (6) neurological impress method. (CL)

The author describes her experiences in teaching a prison inmate to read. She discusses initial testing upon which a visually-oriented instructional program was built. (CL)

This investigation was designed to address whether specific prereading skills are related to success in word recognition, regardless of instructional method. Half of the sample received prereading skills training, then the entire sample were taught word recognition by one of three methods. Results are discussed. (MT)

Deletion exercises, in which students are asked to supply words removed from texts, can be motivating for learning disabled students. The most common categories of information items that can be deleted include narrative, grammatical, conceptual, and logical elements. (CL)

Cites needs of reading and language arts professionals that can be met with the help of a computer and describes "The Storage and Retrieval of Bibliographic References." (FL)

To enable elementary reading disabled students to gain skills from participating in reading games, a four-phase sequence was instituted in which students progressed from initial teacher diagnosis through stress on game etiquette, reinforcement of skills by game players, and creation of students' own games. (CL)

The "Writing to Read" program uses microcomputers to teach a phonemically consistent alphabet, thus allowing children to write words phonetically while learning to read. Because the system requires minimal motor coordination, it may be applicable to students with disabilities. (CL)

Learning disabled students can perform tasks to understand seven "metagrammars," organizational structures in writing: (1) narration, (2) chronology, (3) location, (4) analogy, (5) origin, (6) taxonomy, and (7) description. Charts can sensitize students to the various types of organizations. (CL)

Considers two ways of looking at reading which can influence the manner in which teachers plan and implement instruction and briefly reviews the literature on these approaches. (RB)

Provides directions to help teachers identify and articulate their assumptions about the teaching of reading. (Author)

"Notes on Literacy" serves field literacy programs by sharing information of a practical and theoretical nature with literacy field workers. Articles address a wide range of concerns in literacy and literacy education, particularly in developing nations or uncommonly taught languages. Typical topics include: orthography; language…