Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of criterion referenced testing in the elementary reading program. (RB)

Describes a teaching method which included using the newspaper as part of the instructional materials in a secondary remedial reading class. (RB)

Describes several successful inservice teacher education programs in reading. (RB)

Reports on a study comparing the nouns in the Dolch word list with four recently published word lists to determine which nouns are most frequently used. (RB)

Describes the purposes and programs of the national Right to Read effort. (RB)

Findings show that a significant majority of inner city teachers believe the DISTAR is an effective reading program. (RB)

Presents a brief analysis of the arguments for teaching standard English and those for a bidialectal approach to beginning reading. (RB)

Concludes that a large number of student teachers and experienced teachers at the elementary level cannot define the concepts and terms they are teaching. (RB)

A study investigated the use of visualizing in remembering or understanding difficult abstract prose. Subjects, 40 students in two freshman developmental reading classes in a state college in North Carolina, received either instruction in drawing out images or in writing paraphrases as they read difficult material. Posttests of abstract reading…

At the final session of a course designed to increase reading efficiency for college study, the students were asked, hypothetically, to inform the principal of their high school if there were any preparations for college which, in their opinion, should have been included in the high school years. Students' suggestions fell into the following…

Identifying effective reading instruction through "process-product" research narrowly focuses attention on immediate practice and desirable outcomes as measured by tests. Failure to conduct long-term research and make instructional decisions within a historical context may discourage discovering new and innovative ways to teach reading.…

A field study tested a teaching method to increase comprehension by instructing students about the nature of questions and the "art" of composing good comprehension questions. The eight guidelines on which the method was developed included (1) making students aware of the purpose of such questions; (2) explaining to students that there are three…

The writings of Nila Banton Smith, a lifelong teacher, administrator, and specialist in reading instruction, whose publications spanned the years from 1922 to her death in 1976, are listed. The 152 entries are divided into three types: (1) professional publications, designed to improve the profession of teaching reading; (2) instructional…

In order to assess the 1987-88 reading program in the Indianapolis, Indiana, public schools, a survey randomly selected 10 elementary schools, from which 20 teachers and 7 principals completed a questionnaire about the reading program in their building. Survey items consisted of 40 yes/no questions concerning organization, management, student…

Schemata, as defined recently by reading researchers, represent generic concepts which are stored in memory. They include underlying objects, situations, events, actions, and sequences of actions for use in interpreting new experiences. Research on schemata suggests that teachers need to pay attention to the types of questions they ask when…