Acknowledges the influence of Arthur I. Gates, Marion Monroe, and Donald D. Durrell on the author's views about remedial reading. (DD)

Rethinks the concept of book reports, refuting most reasons for their use. Notes other, more enjoyable ways to teach the skills usually targeted with book reports. Offers guidelines to optimize learning and opportunities for success with book reports. (SR)

Determined the effects of parent counseling on the reading attitudes and reading comprehension of remedial readers. Concluded that parent counseling improves both reading comprehension and reading attitudes perhaps because the reduction of tension for parents and students allowed the students to take more risks as they read. (SRT)

Suggests 12 activities to make humor an integral part of the reading/language arts curriculum. (MKM)

Describes a model for a comprehensive reading program that identifies critical elements of a program and their relationship to one another. (MKM)

Assesses the qualities and drawbacks of high-interest easy reading books and lists the best of these books that are currently available. (SRT)

Describes (1) an activity in which students act out a courtroom drama involving their favorite literary characters; and (2) an activity in which older remedial readers improvise short plays of dramatic conflict based on stories they have read, tape record them, and then edit the transcripts. (ARH)

Presents a satirical view of the current literature on reading. Suggests that reading therapy inundates the student with theoretical constructs. (ARH)

Recounts the story of Tom, a nonreader, and how a computer helped him to communicate and eventually learn to read. (DF)

Argues that teaching students the process of comprehension and ways to improve their own comprehension helps to develop skills in reluctant or poor readers. Offers teaching ideas that involve a variety of reading materials. (FL)

Explains a tutorial program, in an Australian school, in which older students receive English grammar and language credit for their work in tutoring younger remedial readers. (MB)

Contributors propose five ways for students to improve their reading: combining television newscasts and note taking, determining the main ideas of pictures, using multicultural materials, developing vocabulary through color word contests, and finishing reading what a teacher has started. Also discussed is informal research indicating that…

Explains ways that juvenile science fiction has changed and improved during the last decade. Includes a bibliography of titles popular with children and adolescents. (MKM)

Describes vocabulary lesson sequences that were used to teach sixth, seventh, and eighth grade remedial readers economics vocabulary from the newspaper. (HOD)

Reviews reports of the use of taped books and reading materials with students as a method of reading instruction. Also suggests related techniques such as choral reading, sustained silent reading, and the neurological impress method. (MKM)