Pennsylvania's Content Area Reading Program uses a network of 50 trained instructors to help teachers improve students' content area reading skills. This article covers program content, instructor recruitment and training, variations in program presentation, factors underlying program success, and steps in planning inservice programs in content…

A model in-service education program in content area reading is described. Secondary content teachers changed their attitudes toward teaching reading in their classes, improved their knowledge of reading skills, and expanded their perception of their skill in teaching reading. (Editor)

Discusses concept learning in the content areas, focusing on a system for integrating vocabulary into cognitive teaching goals. (AEA)

Junior high teachers in a reading in-service program were pre- and post-tested on their knowledge of reading instruction and attitudes toward teaching reading in their content classes. Results are presented for each teacher group: English, Reading, Social Studies, Science/Math, and Related Arts; and implications for in-service drawn. (SJL)

Teaching methods for the improvement of reading skills within the context of junior and senior high school regular content reading are suggested. (LH)

Junior high school teachers (at three Pennsylvania schools--urban, suburban, and rural) who were voluntarily involved in a year-long inservice education program on content area reading instruction during 1976-77 were tested one year later after no intervention to see if significant gains made during the workshop year were retained. Posttest scores…

To test whether secondary teachers' attitudes and knowledge of reading skills could be positively changed by inservice education, a university developed a content area reading project that offered instruction to junior high teachers at three school-based sites. The 57 teachers who were involved in the year-long program were provided with…

As part of the work from the Content Area Reading Project (CARP), which focuses on inservice teacher education in content area reading, a study examined the effects of an inservice content area reading program that involved two three-hour workshops per month on the theory and practical application of teaching methods for content area reading…

In this appendix to the Content Area Reading Project report, five instruments administered to teacher participants are examined: two attitude surveys, a skill test, a questionnaire to obtain demographic information, and the Purdue Teacher Opinionaire, which is a measure of teacher morale. This work first presents the attitude surveys, skill test,…

The Content Area Reading Project was designed to provide teachers in junior high schools and adult basic education classes with inservice workshops and on-site consultant assistance in content area reading methods. Chapter one of this report discusses the need for such a project and outlines the procedures used in developing it. In chapter two,…

Materials developed by teacher participants in the Content Area Reading Project are presented in this appendix to the Project report. The first section provides group informal reading inventories developed for use in adult education, teaching English as a second language, and nine content areas; it then presents cloze tests developed for use in…

In this appendix to the Content Area Reading Project report, a large variety of materials is presented for use in the content component of the project. Among the materials are the following: a bibliography of professional materials on content reading; an annotated bibliography of junior high school materials for reading development in ten content…