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Direct linkMassey, Carolyn; Wiggin, Paul – Teaching History, 2018
Discussions with sixth-form students about reading led Carolyn Massey and Paul Wiggin to start a sixth-form reading group. They describe here the series of themed sessions that they planned, and the student discussion and reflections that resulted. Listening to their students discuss their reading led Massey and Wiggin to reflect on what is meant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Reading Instruction, Youth Clubs
Wray, David; Janan, Dahlia – Curriculum Journal, 2013
The concept of readability has had a variable history, moving from a position where it was considered as a very important topic for those responsible for producing texts and matching those texts to the abilities and needs of learners, to its current declining visibility in the education literature. Some important work has been coming from the USA…
Descriptors: Readability, Text Structure, Foreign Countries, Textbooks
McKinstery, Janie; Topping, Keith J. – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2003
Teaching thinking skills has been characterised by the teacher-directed "embedded", "infusion" and "bolt-on" approaches, for which outcomes have been mixed. Peer tutoring in thinking skills offers a fourth way of wide applicability. This study evaluated such a method (Paired Thinking) in a high school setting. A…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Reading Comprehension, Peer Teaching, Tutoring
