Offers a humorous perspective on being a proponent of the whole language approach to reading instruction in the face of those who favor phonics and specific skill instruction. (SRT)

The study showed that both word analysis and word-supply error correction procedures greatly reduced the number of oral reading errors of four moderately mentally retarded students (12-17 years old). The word-analysis method, however, was significantly more effective than word supply. (Author/CL)

The repeated reading technique has been used successfully with children to build fluency and enhance comprehension and can be a viable instructional and remedial technique for adult beginning readers. (SK)

Volunteer participation in adult literacy programs can be encouraged by (1) stressing the goals of helping individuals and long-term social value, (2) gearing expectations to students' abilities and progress, (3) emphasizing pragmatic methods to achieve students' goals, (4) stressing teaching methods adapted from daily interaction, and (5)…

A program for 148 bright 6-14 year olds who were poor readers featured use of mentors to supplement four facets of a metacognitive/cognitive training program: (1) factors affecting thinking, (2) reasons for using strategies, (3) methods of self-direction, and (4) cognitive strategies. (CL)

Five male learning disabled students (eight to 13 years old) learned more words using the nonpreferred hand in tactile processing to remediate reading than with the preferred hand. (CL)

A framework developed to describe effective vocabulary instruction suggests that teaching methods can be described by the types of information they provide and the types of processing they require. (FL)

Reviews 16 reading journals, including subscription information. (DF)

Approaches are discussed for constructing and implementing the ENIGMA (Engineering Individual Growth Through Manipulative Associations) reading program, a language-based activity using teacher-made puzzles and stories in a manipulative-associative manner. (CL)

Reviews the literature pertaining to the use of hypnosis in improving reading proficiency, describes a procedure teachers can use, and explains why they should use it. (FL)

Discusses the use of dialog journals (where students write down their thoughts and questions and give the journals to their teacher for response) to help college-level deaf students master the skills necessary to read advanced textbooks written in English. The journals enable a teacher to ascertain a student's weaknesses and strengths. (SED)

The author presents case histories in which children with reading and spelling problems learn to use their hands to connect reading with spelling. (CL)

A report released in May by the Commission on Reading entitled "Becoming a Nation of Readers" suggests, among other things, that teachers should revise the way they teach reading. Specific comments are discussed. (MT)

Learning to read depends on eventual mastery of coding procedures, and even skilled reading depends on coding processes low in cost to processing resources. Reading disability may be understood as a point on an ability continuum or a wide range of coding ability. Instructional goals of word reading skill, including rapid and fluent word…

Forty-eight colleges and university English departments were asked to list books incoming students should have read before entering their institutions. From this listing the authors define what secondary students should read and what analytic skills such well-read students should develop. They present a three-point plan for developing a secondary…