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Reading Effectively across the Disciplines (READ): A Strategy to Improve Student Success
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But, Juanita C.; Brown, Pamela; Smyth, Davida S. – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2017
This paper describes the structure and activities of READ (Reading Effectively Across the Disciplines), a pilot initiative to improve students' critical reading skills, disciplinary literacy and academic success. READ employs a multimodal design that consists of faculty training in disciplinary literacy instruction and curricular enhancement,…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Reading Skills, Academic Achievement
COMBINING A PROGRAM OF READING IMPROVEMENT WITH THE STUDY OF HISTORY.
RAUCH, SIDNEY J.; SCHLEICH, MIRIAM – 1967
A PILOT PROGRAM IS BEING CONDUCTED AT HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY IN HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK, THROUGH THE JOINT EFFORTS OF ITS READING CENTER AND HISTORY DEPARTMENT. THIS COORDINATED HISTORY-READING PROGRAM FOR COLLEGE FRESHMEN WAS DEVELOPED TO INVESTIGATE THE CAUSES OF STUDENTS' DIFFICULTIES IN A COURSE REQUIRING EXTENSIVE READING, TO ANALYZE THE CONTENT OF A…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Content Area Reading, Reading Difficulty, Reading Failure
Integrating Art and Reading--Learning to Read through the Arts.
O'Brien, Bernadette C. – CSA Education Review, 1982
The New York City Board of Education's Title I program, "Learning to Read through the Arts," teaches skills in reading through involvement in the arts, builds self-confidence, improves self-image, and adds to the experiences of the participating children. If children are able to read material and apply the information thus acquired to…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Content Area Reading, Curriculum Enrichment, Elementary Education