Reviews research on the link between extracurricular activities and student engagement. Finds that extracurricular activities appeal to student interests, encourage peer interaction, prompt cooperation, build student-adult relationships, provide structure and challenge, and draw students--especially minorities and women--to science. (PKP)

Discuss how teachers should respond to children and adolescents with unexpected chronic illnesses or mental disorders. (PKP)

Describes the use of content reading and writing programs to address the problems of adolescent literacy. Provides examples of how content-area teachers incorporate reading and writing instruction strategies in their classes. (PKP)

Conversation with Donna Ogle, past-president of the International Reading Association, about content-area reading issues and strategies for low-achieving students. (PKP)

Discusses the problem of content-area textbooks that are not matched with students reading levels. Describes how exemplary content-area teachers moderate the textbook mismatch problem and improve student learning by creating a multi-source, multileveled curriculum, providing student choice, and offering individualized instruction. (Contains 15…

Describes three key developmental reading strategies that content-area teachers can implement in their classrooms: Collect real books and other content-rich materials, read aloud to students, and provide time for independent reading. (PKP)

Describes several strategies mathematics and science teachers can use to improve student reading comprehension. (Contains 15 references.) (PKP)

Describes several instructional strategies middle-school science teacher uses to teach students to read and write about science. (Contains 12 references.) (PKP)

Describes how content-area teachers can use recreational reading to improve adolescent reading and writing skills. Provides several examples. (Contains 17 references.) (PKP)

Describes how to teach students to use questioning techniques to read and evaluate websites on the Internet. Provides examples of "digital textbooks" on teacher-designed website. (PKP)

Describes reading-comprehension technique called "Questioning the Author," which focuses on teaching students to concentrate on building understanding of the ideas in the text. Provides examples of this reading-comprehension technique in geography and history. (PKP)

Describes the use of picture books to teach social studies to middle-school students. Provides example using picture books to teach a unit on World War II. (PKP)

Describes 3 phases of a 12-week project to study a local park in Des Moines, Iowa, developed by 4 4th-and 5th-grade teachers for their students with an emphasis on reading and writing instruction. Suggests benefits for students and teachers. (PKP)

Describes how secondary-school content-area teachers can improve student comprehension of text material by incorporating reading and writing strategies into their classroom instruction. Illustrates relationships among reading, writing, and understanding. Suggests framework for staff-development program. (Contains 14 references.) (PKP)

Seventh-grade history teacher in Hudson, Wisconsin, describes several strategies for motivating students to write daily in their notebooks. Includes description of sentence synthesis, question all-write, outcome sentences, frames (skeletal paragraphs), short statements (such as brief biographies), and video-viewing guides. (PKP)