Presented at the Annual Meeting, National Council of Teachers of English, Milwaukee, November 1968.

The traditional approach to reading in the content areas has been to teach reading skills only in reading class, usually using literature or narrative selections and expecting transfer of those skills to content texts or other expository materials. The transfer of those reading skills has been such a disappointing experience that even students who…

Many behavioral theorists have suggested that self-directed activity is central to the learning process (e.g., Dewey, Piaget, Wertheimer). Accordingly, it was predicted that such activity bears a significant positive relationship to the quantity, quality, and variety of responses in a reading lesson. Moreover, it was expected that selected…

Describes how to construct a reading guide to help students understand mathematical word problems. (MKM)

Provides examples of using the Directed Reading Activity as a framework for teaching students to comprehend literary text at varying levels of response. (HOD)

Consultant discusses useful guidelines for using oral reading wisely. (GB)

Figurative Language can be a more effective way for authors to say what they mean, but young readers need help from teachers to ensure their understanding of these figures of speech. (Author)

The reading fare of all children, regardless of their cultural background, must merge the new and the strange with what is believable, authentic, familiar and immediate. Discusses the why and how to do this. Bibliography. (Author/RB)

Describes multilevel French reading course at Houston Baptist University in which class time is divided into instructor-directed time where students and instructor work together and student-directed time where students work individually or in small groups with learning modules. Students contract for grades and work at their own pace. (BK)

Evaluates the characteristics common to most reading programs and offers suggestions for keeping a program a learning rather than a testing situation. (HTH)

This study was designed to establish the generalizability of the claimed effectiveness of several prereading instructions in enhancing either specific types of comprehension or overall comprehension. (HOD)

Presents two cross-checking activities to help K-3 students learn decoding. The cross-checking involves decoding by using the consonants in a word along with the context. Children learn to decode by thinking about two things simultaneously (what word would make sense in a sentence and the word's letters and sounds). (SM)