Reviews materials for use in preparing listening-reading transfer lessons. (FL)

Argues that basing comprehension questions on story grammar will help students develop story schema. (FL)

Describes the status of children's literature in Bulgaria and traces the efforts of educators in that country to use literature toward particular ends. (FL)

In this interview, children's author and illustrator Tomie de Paola discusses children's books and reading instruction. (SJL)

Discusses the following topics: the connection between concepts and reading, the nature of concepts, concept development in children, and a procedure for teaching concepts. (DD)

Reports on several easy-to-read books for beginning readers and laments the dearth of such materials. (FL)

Categorizes several self-reporting reading attitude instruments that are currently available in order to provide teachers with information that will let them choose the instrument that is most appropriate for their situation. (FL)

Provides (in a humorous manner) quotations on the teaching of reading and on the process of reading from famous persons and literary works, with emphasis on lines taken from Shakespearean plays. (MKM)

Reviews instructional materials and teaching guides for reading and comprehension. (HTH)

The role of home economics in the education of handicapped children is examined, and the importance of incorporating language and reading instruction in home economics activities is emphasized. The use of photographs and videotapes in teaching manipulative skills is described. (CL)

Notes the relationship between constructive comprehension and schema theory research and decries the lack of progress in applying these theoretical phenomena to the classroom. (MKM)

Answers eight questions concerning the teaching of reading to handicapped children. Includes background information on Public Law 94-142, discussions of mainstreaming and "least restrictive alternatives," and suggestions about instructional practices for use with the handicapped learner. (MKM)

Contends that the cloze procedure is an effective technique for use in teaching specific reading skills as well as a test of rate and comprehension. (FL)

Media education specialist John Culkin talks with editor John Drexel about learning to read in the television age--and discusses a new alphabet, UNIFON, that may help solve the literacy crisis. (Editor)

In Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction (ECRI) classrooms, teachers are given directives for teaching and testing literal, inferential, critical, and creative comprehension to help students understand what they read. (Author/MLF)