When a considerable amount of reading is done in different courses by high school students, this presents a problem for struggling readers. Reading is a favorite way of learning for students possessing verbal intelligence, (See Gardner, 1993), but a goodly number of high school students do not possess this as an important intelligence. Thus, the…

Everything a persons needs to know in life is learned in Kindergarten is a popular adage among teachers. In this article, the author relates how everything she needed to know about teaching she learned from her own children. She relates that from the moment of their birth, she had determined that her four children would learn to read before they…

This paper is a report of a singe-subject reading intervention that was conducted as part of a larger study. The subject's pre-test scores were too low to meet the criterion for including his results in the larger study (Ashcroft, 2004), but he was allowed to participate in an individualized version of the treatment. Because S's social and reading…

Teachers are often confronted with parents' concern of their children's use of invented spelling. Research has found that if educators inform parents of the positive benefits associated with invented spelling, their attitudes towards its use will become more favorable. Consequently, these favorable attitudes will encourage parents to be more…

Learning to read is one of the most critical and powerful achievements in life. Ensuring that all young children reach their potential in literacy development is the shared responsibility of many, though as emphasis is placed on establishing literacy leaders in many schools, literacy coaches and classroom teachers are being looked upon as having…

Discusses one approach a department of elementary education has taken to prepare faculty regarding the incorporation of technology use for preservice preparation. Presents individual application of technology use in three different methods courses as well as the staff development program used to prepare faculty members. (RS)

Describes how the College of Education at the University of Kentucky is implementing Internet communications training for pre-service teachers and for teacher professional development programs. (RS)

Notes that until 1994, English and Afrikaans were the two official languages of South Africa, and educational policy promoted bilingualism in the country's schools. Examines the two languages historically and socially in order to make some comparisons with bilingual education in Canada. Makes reference to the future roles of the two languages in…

Discusses the author's varied experiences in teaching reading, including teaching seventh grade pupils in the West Bank of Jordan, taking graduate courses in reading, and being an elementary school principal and a university professor. Suggests the need for a rational balance between whole language and phonics. (RS)

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)

Presents five vignettes (student-student, parent-child, teacher-student, teacher-student-parents, and whole class conference) designed to illustrate the diversity of learning interactions possible in both the school and home environments. Notes that each interaction provides insightful glimpses into the educational process as well as suggesting…

Describes the use of a wordless picture book with a second and fifth grader and demonstrates its usefulness in the language arts classroom. (RS)

Describes reading in schools using the Paideia philosophy (a set of teaching and learning goals to help students acquire a core of general knowledge, develop fundamental skills, and enlarge their understanding of ideas and values). (RS)

Explores an innovative teaching methodology designed to improve students' reading abilities. Discusses how this strategy, know as "snap shot linkage," has proven to be effective in combating not only students' inabilities to read and learn, but the anxiety that often accompanies reading activities. (SG)

Shows how 2 teachers integrated 5 severely handicapped students into a regular first/second grade classroom--teachers prepared all students for inclusion by comparing the handicapped students to children needing adoption, love, and care, and paired the handicapped students with regular students who served as models/tutors. Finds that all students…