A list of books for remedial readers useful for building skills and teaching vocabulary. (Author)

Suggests that children's writing is an excellent source of pertinent information about spelling and word recognition skills and analyzes one child's writing to demonstrate how an analysis of misspellings might proceed and how information obtained might be used to direct future instruction. (Author/RB)

It is time educators examined their phonics teaching practices and materials. (Author)

Concludes that the reciprocal student-teacher questioning procedure was more effective in developing interpretive reading abilities than the unilateral teacher questioning procedure. (Author/RB)

Ten practical suggestions for involving children in successful reading experiences. nAuthor)

Students' achievement rises when teachers develop a variety of materials and provide differentiated instruction. (Author)

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)

Reviews the literature in the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) on using newspapers to teach reading. (Author/RB)

Tells the story behind the writing of "Dragonwings," which was awarded the 1975 IRA Children's Book Award. (RB)

Some basic facts about test construction and uses and abuses of standardized measures. (Author)

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

Tells how to make contracts effective in guiding and stimulating children's independent classroom work on specific reading skills. (Author/RB)

Contains definitions, approaches, and guidelines for using sight vocabulary. (Author/RB)