To meet the needs of students reading below their potentials, teachers must learn more about the reading process, become more diagnostic in determining pupils' strengths and weaknesses, and couple their knowledge of reading with an understanding of pupil deficiencies to plan a program to improve the child's ability to read. Diagnosis, though…

College students (n=192) read two 1-1/2 page passages on the concepts of autism and trochaic meter. After reading, four independent groups answered questions requiring either a summary, the generation of a new example of the concept, a listing of the critical attributes of the concept, or the identification of a new example. All groups received…

An innovative program to improve reading skills is described in this article. (JD)

Written questions and answers lead to original thinking and writing and to better reading class management than does the "directed reading activity" approach to reading instruction. (JM)

Thirty-six learning disabled children (9-12 years old) participated in a modified Directed Reading Activity, a modified Concept Analysis Activity, and a Worksheet Activity (control). Results indicate that evaluative reading comprehension was more affected by both the modified Concept Analysis Activity and the modified Directed Reading Activity…

Describes a Silent Directed Thinking Activity that was based on an abridged version of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" and used with eighth-grade remedial classes. (HOD)

Suggests several ways to stimulate students to comprehend literature with both feelings and facts. (TO)

Outlines the procedure to be followed in a directed reading lesson, including setting purposes, predicting outcomes, and examining and judging information. Bibliography. (MD)

Discusses the applications of Russell G. Stauffer's work to the teaching of reading. (JL)

Suggests using the Guided Reading Procedure as a prereading activity and as a postreading activity when students have read different materials. (MKM)

Wofford College, like many other schools, assigns a book to its incoming freshmen each summer for them to read before they arrive on campus in the fall. The goal is for them to share a common intellectual experience and to see right away that the emphasis of a liberal arts education is learning though reading, thinking, and discussing. This…

This paper examines the uniqueness of poetry and classroom methodology as found in children's experiences of hearing, enacting, discussing, and making poems. Poetry offers the peculiar use of language, form, and a fresh look. Poems are useful in the classroom as they are read differently from ordinary text, are read with both the eye and the ear,…

Second book in the "Chaa'" series, the word workbook allows the student to distinguish and identify similar consonants and vowel sounds in the Navajo language in supplementary oral and writing activities. Black line illustrations are accompanied with new words and symbols to give the student an idea of the association of symbol and sound. Space is…

Subskills and strategies necessary to improve reading skills are considered. The hypothesis/testing model, useful at the intermediate reading level, is presented. Two experiments, with retarded and normal children, respectively, indicate hypothesis/test model success. Task analysis on model components is used to generate the seven subskills. (BJG)