Blind adults with language deficiencies often can learn enough braille to be able to use it for self-communication. Although the manuals of instruction commonly available are not adequate for everyone, individualized plans for teaching braille can be adapted to meet specific needs. Such plans should have a strong readiness program to teach proper…

Describes the kinds of reading needs foreign students meet in college and in situations in daily life; offers practical teaching tips, such as providing instruction in word analysis, sentence structure analysis, study skills, skimming and scanning, and critical reading. (MKM)

Contends that the use of the cloze procedure, frequently with modifications, can provide reading teachers with an interesting and instructionally sound approach for supplementing the basic reading program. Suggests that cloze techniques can be used both for teaching students how to read more competently and for evaluating their reading…

Argues that music can be a tool for enhancing reading instruction and that teachers of music and of reading should begin to work together to meet the needs of their students. (FL)

Presents the International Reading Association Code of Ethics, which sets forth four ethical standards for professional relationships and five ethical standards for reading services. (MKM)

Presents the author's speech delivered at the Second Moscow Book Fair in 1979 and excerpts from her diary of the trip. (HOD)

Describes the Kamehameha Early Education Program (KEEP) in Honolulu, Hawaii. Terms it an exceptional reading program illustrating how certain dynamics of social interaction may be essential for reading achievement. (FL)

The article presents a technique for motivating and teaching the unmotivated reader with special reference to deaf students. A case study is presented illustrating how cognitive level questions can be incorporated into an original story developed by the teacher to motivate such students. (Author/DLS)

Briefly summarizes the applications and implications of computer-assisted instruction, computer-managed instruction, and computer-based resource units. Other computer applications and research are discussed. (JD)

Tips for helping children develop skills in reading directories, timetables, maps, signs, newspapers, credit forms, and consumer information. (SJL)

Provides a rebuttal to a television interview on the "Phil Donahue Show" in which John H. Richards suggested that many people suffer from an incurable disease called dyslexia and will never be able to read. Insists that with hard work, dyslexics can learn to read. (MKM)

Describes development of a language and reading program in a bilingual country where the native tongue is the minority language. Examines implications of teaching children to read through the medium of Welsh as a mother-tongue for some and as a second language for others. (Author/BK)

Argues for the acceptance of subvocalization while reading. (FL)

Reports on a teacher education class's attempts at producing reading games for children, which showed that while teacher-made games may be useful, in the long run commercially produced games may be better. (FL)

Suggestions for teaching main idea, thesis, theme, topic sentence, and clincher as related concepts are provided. (MKM)