Reveals that the Rauding Scale of Prose Difficulty provides results closer to Spache and Dale-Chall values than does the Singer Eyeball Estimate of Readability (SEER) technique. (FL)

Reports on a study that found no significant relationship between Mexican-American students' perceptions of their cognitive competence and reading teachers' perceptions of that competence. (FL)

Reports that reading researchers are now debating whether reading is a bottom-up or top-down process. (FL)

Describes the development of one child's awareness of print and the stages he passed through while learning to read from birth to age two. (FL)

Reveals that portrayals of handicapped individuals occur far less frequently in basal readers than they do in children's literature. (FL)

Reports that reading instruction in Taiwan resembles the approach taken in North America and involves basal readers and integrated language arts activities. (FL)

Offers eight activities designed to promote positive reading attitudes in elementary school students. (FL)

Argues that putting children in the questioning role in a discussion leads them to higher levels of thinking. Describes several methods designed to stimulate question creation. (FL)

Reveals that games, especially active ones, can help teach sight vocabulary to Black first grade remedial readers. (FL)

Reports on a study that compared drawing, discussion, and dramatic play as follow-up activities for reading aloud. Concludes that the children who played had better comprehension of the stories read to them. (FL)

Annotates books selected by children from across the United States as their favorites from among more than 700 trade books published in 1981. The books are categorized as beginning independent reading books; books for younger, for middle grade, and for older readers; informational books; poetry; and jokes and riddles. (FL)

Presents comments from five contributors concerning ways to improve parent workshops, the children's literature requirements for teacher certification, paragraph construction, note writing as a way to improve writing skills, and an in-depth study of the works of Maurice Sendak. (FL)

Reviews materials that teachers and students can use to help build knowledge of topics and word meanings that are essential to reading comprehension. (FL)

Examines the literature concerning the use of drugs to treat hyperactive children, the effects of these drugs upon the children's performance in the classroom, and the role of the teacher in drug treatment. IFL)

Discusses recent research showing that certain teaching techniques may be successful with students from one cultural milieu but not from another. Argues that forcing children from language or ethnic minorities to use reading in middle class ways can estrange such children from their origins. (FL)