Describes an activity, based on cloze procedure techniques, that can increase children's language abilities while improving their knowledge of vocabulary and music. (FL)

Presents a method, based on the language experience approach, for informal diagnosis of young children's awareness of the technical aspects of print. (FL)

Presents a technique for use with large groups of children to provide them with practice in fluent reading. (FL)

Suggests that school librarians hold discussions with parent groups about current children's books in order to clarify for them why certain books are available to children and to encourage them to share their children's reading. (FL)

The third in a series of articles presenting annotations of books from and about the Soviet Union. (FL)

Five contributors discuss the following topics: bringing comics to life through readers theatre, peer tutoring to improve word attack and comprehension skills, using storytelling to increase reading comprehension skills on Okinawa, beginning reading in Italy, and using remedial reading students as tutors for younger students. (FL)

Reviews materials for use in preparing listening-reading transfer lessons. (FL)

Provides information designed to help educators become familiar with computer applications in the classroom. (FL)

Argues that metacognition gives a framework for understanding earlier studies on the relationship between reading rate and text characteristics and points toward an explanation for reading flexibility. (FL)

Argues that informal reading inventories fail on several points to provide accurate and reliable scores on the subskills of reading. Asserts that the inventories cannot properly be used to assess children's specific strengths and weaknesses. (FL)

Demonstrates that intensive direct instruction followed by practice can help slower students learn sight vocabulary. (FL)

Reports the findings of a study of poor readers suggesting that specific types of miscues did not predict comprehension level. Proposes that comprehension performance might involve skills and processes not indicated by miscue analysis alone. (FL)

Reviews the problems of bilingual education in the primary grades in the Philippines and concludes that most of them arise from graphic interference between the first language of the country, Pilipino, and English, the second language. (FL)

Offers suggestions for involving older adults as volunteers in school reading programs. (FL)

Outlines a procedure for direct teaching of reading skills and gives specific examples of how to use the procedure. (FL)