Describes four teaching techniques which help poor readers experience decoding automatically. (MKM)

Lists 38 ways to more effective teaching of word attack skills. (MKM)

Suggests lessons based on categorizing and several learning modalities to expand students' vocabulary. (MKM)

Publishers have responded to calls for more minority characters and females in basal readers, but many of the changes appear superficial. (MKM)

Trade books and teacher resources for the library are recommended for ten different curricular areas. (MKM)

Interpretive questioning techniques can be used with folktales to enhance children's insight into human problems. (MKM)

Suggests a variety of class activities using word banks. (MKM)

Notes that instructional television uses special programing which can motivate student readers and describes several ITV programs which are available from nonprofit distributors. (MKM)

Suggests grouping by social patterns as well as ability patterns. (MKM)

Describes some of the research being done by the Center for the Study of Reading, a federally sponsored center established to pursue research into the processes underlying the development of reading comprehension by children in grades three through eight. (MKM)

Discusses the problem of plagiarism of materials as a problem in educational publications. (MKM)

Suggests teaching a compare/contrast method of word identification rather than teaching syllabication rules to decode words and describes research investigating this technique. (MKM)

Explains six tasks which require comprehension of words and which can be used to teach beginning readers. (MKM)

Discusses reading specialists' responsibilities concerning children's vision problems. (MKM)

Identifies some functional vision problems and describes some assessment procedures for determining whether a child needs professional help. (MKM)