Delineates arguments for and against oral reading instruction in developmental reading programs. The need for systematic research into the effects and potential benefits of various forms of oral reading instruction is stressed. (CM)

Reviews 22 studies dealing with the effect of question placement on reading comprehension. Shows that 10 favored and 12 opposed the use of prequestions. (FL)

Describes a pattern book activity that provides a means of introducing and reinforcing high frequency vocabulary within a language experience approach. (FL)

Finds that many Canadian and American preservice and inservice teachers are not being prepared adequately to teach reading in kindergarten. (FL)

Reviews and identifies several aspects of adult reading habits in the United States. (FL)

The author discusses the difficulty of noncontent words for children with poor reading skills and advocates a sentence-based program of instruction which has been successfully used to teach noncontent words to learning/language disabled children from 6 to 12 years old. (CL)

Offers suggestions for involving older adults as volunteers in school reading programs. (FL)

Discusses three series of informational books that deal with animals: "Little Woodland Books,""Life Cycles," and "Skylight Books." (FL)

Offers a clinical supervision model that provides a means by which reading teachers and supervisors can analyze and improve classroom reading instruction. (FL)

Suggests 10 questions teachers should ask themselves before buying materials to teach reading skills. (FL)

Describes the Australian public library system's involvement in literacy programs. (HTH)

Discusses the aims, history, data collection design, and winners of the West Australian Young Readers' Book Award. (HTH)

Presents a technique for use with large groups of children to provide them with practice in fluent reading. (FL)

Argues that metacognition gives a framework for understanding earlier studies on the relationship between reading rate and text characteristics and points toward an explanation for reading flexibility. (FL)

Defines the flexible reader, suggests methods of assessing reading flexibility, and presents a strategy for teaching reading flexibility in secondary level content area classrooms. (FL)