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Guthrie, John T.; McRae, Angela; Coddington, Cassandra S.; Klauda, Susan Lutz; Wigfield, Allan; Barbosa, Pedro – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2009
Low-achieving readers in Grade 5 often lack comprehension strategies, domain knowledge, word recognition skills, fluency, and motivation to read. Students with such multiple reading needs seem likely to benefit from instruction that supports each of these reading processes. The authors tested this expectation experimentally by comparing the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Low Achievement, Reading Tests, Reading Processes
Guthrie, John T.; And Others – 1996
The aims of concept-oriented reading instruction (CORI) are to increase motivation, strategies, and conceptual learning. To attain these aims, CORI classrooms are: conceptually oriented, observational, collaborative, and personalized, emphasizing strategies of searching, comprehending, integrating, and composing for audiences of peers. Two…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 5, Instructional Effectiveness
Guthrie, John T.; And Others – 1996
This report describes a study that examined changes in literacy engagement during one year of Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI), a new approach to teaching reading, writing, and science. Literacy engagement was defined as the integration of intrinsic motivations, cognitive strategies, and conceptual learning from text. To promote…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 5, Instructional Effectiveness
Guthrie, John T.; And Others – 1994
A project designed and implemented a framework of conceptually oriented reading instruction to foster students' amount and breadth of reading, intrinsic motivations for reading, and strategies of search and comprehension. The framework emphasizes five phases of reading instruction in a content domain: observing and personalizing, searching and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 5, Instructional Effectiveness, Integrated Curriculum
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Guthrie, John T.; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1996
Describes changes in literacy engagement during Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI), a new approach to teaching reading, writing, and science that emphasizes real-world science observations, student self-direction, strategy instruction, collaborative learning, self-expression, and coherence of literacy learning experiences. Finds that…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 5
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Guthrie, John T.; Wigfield, Allan; Metsala, Jamie L.; Cox, Kathleen E. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 1999
Reports the results of two studies which further examine the relations of motivational-variables contribution to reading achievement and text comprehension. Results revealed that reading amount significantly predicted text comprehension (with other variables controlled) in both studies (Study 1 included third and fifth graders; Study 2 included…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 10, Grade 3, Grade 5