Discusses June Phillips' article, "Practical Implications of Recent Research in Reading." Cites studies, most of which support Phillips' assertions, especially her five-stage process for reading instruction. Recommends the development of teacher training and instructional materials based on this research. Also discusses text selection,…

Discusses and praises June Phillips' article, "Practical Implications of Recent Research in Reading" and presents more applications of the research she cited. Questions her description of the psycholinguistic processes involved in second language reading. Contrasts the process strategies involved in word processing and text processing,…

Uses a study of reading in the content areas as an example of the evolution of a responsive research design. (FL)

Discusses strategies involved in learning the languages used in technical areas. (FL)

Presents a picture of future reading instruction conducted instantly through "brain language" and special devices. (FL)

The performance of two groups of elementary school children on a modified cloze test under two different conditions demonstrated that lexical information was retained in memory, thus supporting the claim that lexical information persists in memory representations of meaning. Includes extensive tables of data. (FL)

Indicates that explicit instruction in predicting the contents of a news article can help students with the comprehension task of drawing inferences. (AEA)

Shows that the electronic media compete with reading and may affect students' reading achievement. (FL)

Contains a brief review of the research on moral themes in basal reading series and their influence on children and summarizes an investigation which explored the frequency of moral decisions in stories in basal readers and identified those characters who posed the moral questions and those who solved moral dilemmas. (Author/RB)

Concludes that the four reading comprehension tests examined in this study tend to measure general knowledge rather than comprehension skills. (Author/RB)

Describes and evaluates "Breakthrough to Literacy," a beginning reading scheme based on the language experience approach and launched in Saskatoon, Canada schools in 1974. (RB)

Indicates that the teaching of rhyming words is the most efficient initial presentation of consonant-vowel-consonant words for beginning readers. (RB)

Children probably begin to read from the moment they become aware of print, and the roots of reading are discernable whenever children strive to make sense of print. (JH)

Reviews the literature in the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) on how television influences the reading behavior of children. (RB)