Experts agree that reading is the most important skill children must acquire. However, as the popular press often chides, there are millions of U.S. students who struggle to read and comprehend adequately. As a result, these students risk both school and workplace failure. Research confirms that good readers actively comprehend and simultaneously…

Reviews 13 supplementary reading material series--including Impact on Reading, Project Achievement, and Be a Better Reader--useful for providing instruction and practice with a variety of comprehension skills. Includes evaluative comments for each series, noting series' emphases, levels, and publisher. Observes that materials can be used in…

Describes a college developmental reading laboratory model using peer tutors to provide training in comprehension study skills. Reports the results of a study evaluating the impact of training on student performance from the perspective of the participants. (MM)

Describes a way in which a microcomputer can be used as a basis for individualized instruction in reading and word meaning. (FL)

Concludes that literal and inferential comprehension scores were not higher for sixth-grade students taught by moral dilemma questioning techniques than for those taught by the directed reading activity method or those participating in regular classes. (FL)

Argues that teachers should provide their students practice in answering different kinds of comprehension questions. Suggests the Barrett Taxonomy of Cognitive and Affective Dimensions of Reading Comprehension as a model for use in generating diversified questions. (FL)

Reports that recent research on strategies for increasing learning from reading suggests that developmentally appropriate instructions to create mental images, to verbally elaborate, and to relate new information to prior knowledge may increase students' recall of what they read. (FL)

Describes a test of teachers' knowledge of reading comprehension skills that requires teachers to classify reading comprehension activities similar to those found in elementary reading workbooks according to a taxonomy based on the Barrett Taxonomy of Cognitive and Affective Dimensions in Reading Comprehension. (FL)

Describes a content area reading course developed for technology majors at Texas Southern University (Houston). (FL)

Notes that Guided Design is a teaching strategy that can be used to increase high school and college students' comprehension when reading and studying. Describes implementation of Guided Design and a summary of one student's application of Guided Design to the comprehension of a difficult chapter in a cognitive psychology textbook. (RS)

Reviews research on children's comprehension monitoring skills. Discusses implications of research findings for the classroom. Describes procedures for assessing children's comprehension monitoring. Outlines how monitoring strategies can best be taught. Discusses children's readiness for monitoring instruction. (RS)

Presents a useful technique for helping meet individual student needs and improving reading comprehension. Examines how literature can be used, through the bibliotherapeutic technique, with collaborative groups to facilitate the total development of children. (MG)

Argues that reading aloud by students is a useful and necessary skill. Discusses the various purposes, types, and amounts of oral reading needed for effective reading instruction in the elementary classroom. (MG)

Suggests that math and reading are related, and that strategies common to reading sometimes can be applied in math. Presents instructional strategies and independent study techniques for five areas: basic sight words; vocabulary meanings; other specialized vocabulary; basic skills; and problem solving. (RAE)

Discusses ways that teachers may interact with children over texts in order to emphasize the following components of reading comprehension: understanding the meaning-making purpose of reading and writing; viewing reading as a problem-solving process; and learning to share and extend individual comprehension. (RAE)