Tells how to make contracts effective in guiding and stimulating children's independent classroom work on specific reading skills. (Author/RB)

This article is taken from a pamphlet put out by a group of English teachers at Clissold Park Comprehensive, London, who wanted to raise some controversial questions about reading and language development with other teachers in their school. (Editor)

The reading instruction methods of Sylvia Ashton-Warner are succeeding in the classrooms of the nine teachers involved in the Vancouver Project. (IRT)

Explains how newspapers published on students' birthdays can be used in the classroom to stimulate reading and suggests 25 learning activities using the newspaper. (KS)

Makes a case for maintaining experience charts which record children's language in dialect and in Standard English. (RB)

Describes the cloze procedure as a practical source of information about the way a child reads and how to meet instructional needs. (RB)