Presents a four-stage instructional sequence of modeling, practicing, evaluating, and reinforcing activities for developing student-directed notetaking strategies. Notes that an emphasis on evaluating and reinforcing allows the introduction of the Notetaking Observation Training, and Evaluation Scales (NOTES), a system for fostering students'…

Explains how using the term "Family English" to identify nonstandard English with adults in developmental classes at the junior college level keeps communications open without negatively labeling their language and without producing hostility. (SR)

Reports on a reading teacher and cosmetology instructor working together in a vocational-technical school to develop a practical procedure for reading in a content area. (RB)

Presents (1) a dialogue approach to spelling for remedial students, (2) a list of activities that can encourage students to be active readers of poetry, (3) guidelines for modifying tests for mainstreamed students, (4) a method of encouraging efficient notetaking which utilizes active class involvement, and (5) the addresses of several…

Describes a series of reading tests devised especially for students in a vocational school. (RB)