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Quigley, Alex; Coleman, Robbie – Education Endowment Foundation, 2019
This guidance report aims to help secondary schools improve literacy in all subject areas. It provides seven recommendations related to reading, writing, talk, vocabulary development and supporting struggling students. Throughout the report, recommendations emphasise the importance of disciplinary literacy. Disciplinary literacy is an approach to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Literacy Education, Reading Instruction
de Oliveira, Luciana C., Ed. – TESOL Press, 2016
This volume in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Learners series was designed to deepen teacher's knowledge and provides instructional approaches and practices for supporting grades 6-12 ELLs as they meet the ambitious expectations of the CCSS for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects. This…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, English Language Learners, Literacy Education, History Instruction
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Padilla, Maria Antonia; Solorzano, Wendy Guadalupe; Pacheco, Virginia – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2009
Introduction: A correspondence has been seen between the level at which one can read scientific texts and his/her performance in writing this type of texts. Besides being able to read at the most complex levels, formulating research problems requires explicit training in writing. The objective of the present study was to evaluate whether…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Research Problems
Bromley, Karen D'Angelo – 1983
To determine how differences in isolating and elaborating on important text information influence learning and attitudes toward learning, two groups of fifth grade students were trained to apply the mechanics of precis writing and outlining to their social studies readings. After a pretest for content knowledge and an evaluation of their attitudes…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Grade 5
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Gregory, Eileen – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1992
Discusses the purpose, the rationale, and an evaluation of students' comments concerning an introductory college science course for nonscience majors that utilizes content area reading and writing to instill an appreciation for the everyday importance of science by focusing on the theme of science in the news, particularly as reported in the print…
Descriptors: College Science, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Course Descriptions
Snow, Marguerite Ann; Brinton, Donna M. – 1988
The adjunct model of language instruction is described as it has been implemented at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). In this model, freshman English and English-as-a-second-language (ESL) courses are linked with content area courses to better integrate the reading, writing, and study skills required for academic success at the…
Descriptors: College English, College Freshmen, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing