Argues that reading teachers at the secondary level must become more active in reading research. (RB)

Suggests that reading aides work with students who have remedial problems, allowing the reading specialist to monitor and supervise reading instruction. (RB)

Reviews the literature in the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) on the effective reading programs as identified by the American Institute for Research (AIR). (RB)

Describes the successful use of the language experience approach as a tool in a school for boys with disciplinary problems. (RB)

Argues that awareness of the different ego states which students go through and the games they play can help teachers with otherwise unreachable students. (RB)

This third article in a series finds that poor teaching techniques which impede reading instruction have changed little in the last decade. (WR)

Argues that successful teaching depends on a lot of little things and suggests some things that effective teachers include in daily instruction. (RB)

Presents an account of an attempt to develop "experiencing" and involvement in a graduate reading course during a 4-week summer session. (Author/PG)

Lists 42 ways of motivating students to read. (RB)

Findings show that there are now 68 institutions which grant academic credit for developmental reading courses. (RB)

Achievement may be increased directly through curriculum improvements or indirectly through increasing behaviors which are prerequisites for academic achievement. (Author)

Relevant and appropriate instruction for handicapped adolescent delinquents was the focus of a study involving 31 incarcerated handicapped Ss. Instruction was planned based on pretest performance on the Wide Range Achievement Test, the KeyMath Diagnostic Arithmetic Test and the Analytical Reading Inventory. Ss were tutored for 2 hours per week for…

Semantic mapping is effective with expository prose but not as effective with narrative prose. To achieve a better understanding of narrative prose, yet still keep the benefits of semantic mapping, the traditional approach can be modified into a technique called "episodic mapping." Episodic mapping is based on the idea that most stories…