Selected papers from the 1986 NRC Conference.--Cf. Pref.
Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Assessment, Accountability, and Professional Prerogative / P. D. Pearson and S. Valencia -- Cloze Procedure and the Sequence of Text / A. G. Gamarra and J. Jonz -- Factors Affecting Summary Writing and Their Impact on Reading Comprehension Assessment / M. H. Head and R. R. Buss -- Emergent Literacy : Reading and Writing Development in Early Childhood / W. H. Teale -- The Effect of One-to-One Story Readings on Children's Questions and Responses / L. M. Morrow -- Understandings of the Forms and Functions of Written Language : Insights from Children and Parents / L. A. Kastler ... [et al.] -- Kindergarten Spelling : Explaining Its Relationship to First-Grade Reading / L. Ferroli and T. Shanahan -- Literacy Learning as an Intertextual Process / D. W. Rowe -- Should Reading Comprehension Skills Be Taught? / R. P. Carver -- Variables Influencing Importance Assignment / P. Afflerbach -- Effects of Practice in Retelling upon the Reading Comprehension of Proficient and Less Proficient Readers / B.A. Kapinus ... [et al.] -- In-Process Measures of Ambigious Text Interpretation : Another Look at the Influence of Prior Knowledge / W. A. Henk and J.P. Helfeldt -- Learning to Teach Comprehension : A Collaborative Approach / J. A. Niles and R. V. Lalik -- Main Idea Treatment in Secondary Reading Skill Development Materials / D. W. Moore and B. Smith -- Learning from Discussion : Requirements and Constraints on Classroom Instruction in Reading Comprehension Strategies / J. H. Mosenthal -- Explicitness in Sixth-Grade Social Studies Textbooks / M. J. Dreher ... [et al.] -- An Analysis of Ambiguous Oral Discourse during Reading Instruction / J. J. Sweetland ... [et al.] -- Children's Oral Language during Teacher-Directed Reading Instruction / L. B. Gambrell -- Students' and Teachers' Perceptions of an Innovative Reading Strategy / N. D. Padak and G. M. Padak -- The Status of Literacy in Our Society / L. Mikulecky -- Coping Strategies of Four Successful Learning Disabled College Students : A Case Study Approach / W. G. Brozo and C. L. Curtis -- Writing in Constrained Genres : Pushing the Limits of Writing Models / G. M. Schumacher ... [et al.] -- The Relationship between Teachers' Beliefs and Instruction and Students' Conceptions about the Writing Process / K. L. Fear ... [et al.] -- An Instructional Investigation of Students' Ideas Generated during Content Area Writing / M. A. Martin and B. C. Konopak -- Relating Reading and Writing via Comprehension, Quality and Structure / A. Schewe and V. Froese -- Two Young Writers : The Relationship between Text Revisions and Teacher/Student Conferences / C. Vukelich and L. D. Leverson -- Through Teachers' Eyes : Reflections on Ethnography and Writing / S. Perl -- Cohesive Harmony Analysis : Issues of Text Pragmatics and Macrostructure / L.B. Friedman and E. Sulzby -- Yearbook of the National Reading Conference Membership Survey and Results / J. Fitzgerald and D.L. Spiegel