Many teachers are concerned about their students’ ability to use reading skills when they are required to apply them outside the context of a ‘reading lesson’. Learning to Learn form Text provides teachers with a clear, step-by-step approach to the teaching of effective reading in the content areas which can easily be incorporated into lesson planning and presentation. Through use of a model developed during extensive inservice workshops with experienced, practicing teachers, the authors introduce strategies which can help students develop more effective reading writing and oral language processing skills and function more successfully as independent learners.