Presents the results of a two-part survey conducted among reading teachers to determine the role of the remedial reading teacher. (RB)

Discusses the role of parents in helping the child learn to enjoy reading. (ST)

In order to provide comprehensive information about all known applications of and viewpoints on the Initial Teaching Alphabet, the Initial Teaching Alphabet Foundation has compiled a series of annotated bibliographies that were prepared by means of computer-based information searches and subsequent analysis of the data obtained. The data banks…

Argues that reading and writing in schools are two separate processes, and mirror the wider alienation of production and consumption that characterize the wider society. (RB)

Concludes that as little phonics instruction as is necessary should be presented to help the learner achieve increasing independence in the various coding tasks. (RB)

Describes a high school where reading is taught in every content area, including in marine biology, health, and United States History. (RB)

Tells content reading teachers some of the pitfalls to avoid and some of the new approaches to take in helping students benefit from reading. (RB)

Reports on work on texts in teaching German to foreigners, suggesting that the recognition of semantic equivalences in different portions of a text, not necessarily synonymic, may be useful in teaching foreigners to read more effectively. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Describes the contents and evaluation methods used in a high school course designed to get students to read more. (RB)

Analyzes Skills Management Systems (SMS) as a means for establishing an accountability framework in reading instruction and concludes that at the present time there are too many unverified assumptions in such systems. (RB)

Concludes that monosyllabic words are easier for beginning readers to read than are polysyllabic words and that children just learning to read should be taught phonics skills with monosyllabic words. (RB)

Presents and discusses one set of comprehension questions found in "A Teacher's Guide to the Macmillan Readingtime Books." (RB)