Reviews research showing that teachers can improve student reading behaviors through direct instruction and reinforcement. (FL)

Reports a study of children's responses to a passage-dependent reading comprehension test. (HTH)

Reviews picture books published from 1960 through 1980 to determine how they portrayed grandparents. Concludes that older adults are dealt with in many different ways in such books. Provides a list of books appropriate for primary school children that present positive images of grandparents. (FL)

A comparison of comprehension questions in teachers' manuals for two meaning-based basal series with two decoding-based linguistic/phonic series found that individual series types maintained their philosophical integrity in their approaches to questions. (FL)

Reviews research showing that the SQ3R study method does not appear to be more effective than either traditional study techniques or the students' own methods of study. (FL)

Indicates that preservice content area teachers who were required to take a reading methods course improved their attitudes toward teaching reading. (AEA)

Discusses children's responses to questions concerning their attitudes about reading, libraries, school influence on reading habits, and tells how adults can help children to read. (HTH)

Analysis of the performance of hearing impaired and normal hearing adolescents on a standardized reading test shows that the hearing impaired students attempted significantly more items than their hearing counterparts, but made more errors and significantly more errors that are classified as "nonlinguistic" in nature. (FL)

Analysis of the performance of hearing impaired and normal hearing nine- to eleven-year-old children on a standardized reading test shows that the hearing impaired children tackled significantly more test items than their hearing counterparts and made significantly more errors in achieving similar reading scores. (FL)

Reviews the problems posed by atheoretical approaches to research and the benefits of employing theory in conducting research in active response modes. (HOD)

Outlines three constructs of text difficulty: text-based (objective), performance-based (behavioral), and a combination of the two (subjective). (HOD)

Reviews work on three areas of visual information that are available to readers: information provided by the conventional arrangements of the print on the page, by the features of each letter, and by the shapes of entire words. (HOD)

More than 200 college students were surveyed to determine what factors affected their reading habits when they were younger. School-related factors that encouraged reading included paperback book clubs and teachers who made reading enjoyable. Factors that discouraged reading included oral reading and uninteresting reading materials. (FL)

Reports that elementary school principals want to become more involved with reading programs in their schools. Shows also that they see their professional roles as more administrative than supervisory. (FL)

Argues that researchers and classroom teachers need not be adversaries and uses examples from the area of domain knowledge to demonstrate how teachers can adapt research findings to their reading lessons. (FL)