Gives specific ideas for encouraging students to be flexible in their approach to decoding words. (MKM)

Describes developmental stages of beginning spelling and suggests three steps for becoming a better teacher of spelling, reading, and writing. (MKM)

Describes a parent workshop designed to teach parents how to teach survival reading skills by using menus, signs, and cereal boxes. (MKM)

Reviews the research on readability formulas. (MKM)

In this study the Graded Word List proved to be a poor indicator of fourth through eighth grade students' scores on an informal reading inventory. (MKM)

Suggests that children should be taught to blend isolated sounds into words as an aid to reading. (MKM)

Children who listened to "William's Doll,""Giving Tree,""Bread and Jam for Frances," and "My Grandson Lew," changed their attitudes in the respective areas of sex role stereotyping, friendship, death, and risk taking. (MKM)

Teachers' comments to children can positively affect children's understanding of their reading skills. (MKM)

A thorough knowledge of the relationship of language and reading will lead to more effective teaching than following a list of basic skills. (MKM)

Describes a psychologist's encounter with a classroom teacher as he attempts to explain how children remember fairy tales. (MKM)

Describes individualized programs for migrant children. (MKM)

Reflects on the possible factors that enabled the author's child to learn to read at the age of five. (MKM)

Student logs of what they read outside of teacher directed instruction in reading give good indications of the types of materials to be included in survival or functional reading instruction. (MKM)

Discusses ways to use games in teaching reading skills and lists commercial games appropriate for primary and intermediate levels. (MKM)