As part of a continuing series, this book contains 27 conference papers, which reflect the theme of reading as a process of creating meaning for sensed stimuli. Titles, among others, cover the following topics: (1) writing and reading in a balanced curriculum; (2) the creation and discovery of meaning; (3) learning disabilities; (4) key words and other ways to teach beginning reading; (5) the emergence of reading behavior; (6) writing across the curriculum; (7) testing versus writing; (8) cognitive input and output; (9) metalinguistic development and reading/writing achievement; (10) reading, writing, and algorithms and computer literacy; (11) effective social studies reading programs; (12) defining literacy through measurement; (13) mime in the classroom; (14) the transition from Spanish reading to English reading; (15) preliterate literacy; (16) English primary school and the development of linguistic strategies in young school children; (17) the development of spatial and temporal reference in children during the school years; (18) reading in the age of television; and (19) educational applications of the teletext medium. (HOD)