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Holbrook, Hilary Taylor – Journal of Reading, 1985
Explores problems surrounding direct instruction in vocabulary and describes sources in the ERIC system for other approaches to vocabulary development. (HTH)
Descriptors: Problems, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Secondary Education
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O'Donnell, Holly – Journal of Reading, 1982
Reviews materials in the ERIC system on the nature of on-the-job reading and instructional strategies to surmount work-related reading difficulties. (HTH)
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Job Skills, Literacy, Reading Skills
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Greene, Beth G., Ed. – Reading Psychology, 1992
Asserts that there is a need for sources of information about incorporating specific reading strategy instruction into content area junior high and high school courses. Provides 11 annotations from the ERIC database on the topic of content area reading. (PRA)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Content Area Reading, Reading Skills, Reading Strategies
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Smith, Carl B. – Reading Teacher, 1990
Discusses vocabulary development in content area reading and the use of a vocabulary matrix of related concepts and a t-bar chart of words related to new vocabulary. (MG)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills
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Greene, Beth G. – Ohio Reading Teacher, 1991
Provides 11 annotations from the ERIC database of recent reports and conference papers that address the relationship of phonics to beginning reading. (MG)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Phonics
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O'Donnell, Holly – Journal of Reading, 1980
Discusses materials in the ERIC system that offer definitions of basic skills, describe secondary basic skills programs, and provide competency standards and catalogs for basic skills. (MKM)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Sources
Myers, Jamie – 1989
Part of a series designed to provide practical ideas parents can use to help children become readers, this booklet focuses on how to encourage high school students to read. The booklet describes the social needs of teenagers, general guidelines for developing purposeful reading, and specific strategies to develop purposes for reading. Under each…
Descriptors: Adolescents, High School Students, High Schools, Parent Child Relationship
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Fox, Deborah – Journal of Reading, 1986
Draws on selected ERIC resources to suggest dominant features of two approaches to beginning reading: systematic phonics and whole language learning. (HOD)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Phonics
Weaver, Constance – 1994
This digest discusses some of the ways children develop functional phonics knowledge in the context of authentic reading and writing, as well as some of the ways teachers can foster such development. The digest suggests that children develop phonics knowledge by: having familiar stories or poems read to them repeatedly; discussing letter/sound…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Phonics
Auten, Anne – Computers, Reading and Language Arts, 1983
Discusses six ERIC documents reporting computer applications in reading and language arts. (FL)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, English Instruction, Language Arts, Microcomputers
Sensenbaugh, Roger – 1996
This digest discusses the concept of "phonemic/phonological awareness"--the awareness that spoken language is made up of discrete sounds. The digest also discusses why this concept is so important to early childhood educators, its relation to the debate on the best type of reading instruction, and teaching methods that may help children…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Oral Language, Phonemic Awareness
Denner, Michael, Comp. – 1992
This annotated bibliography of material from the ERIC database presents 59 annotations on the topic of reading and children with dyslexia or attention deficit disorders. Entries in the bibliography are organized into background information on dyslexia and attention deficit disorders, information for parents, and information for teachers. The…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Attention Deficit Disorders, Dyslexia, Elementary Education
Nagy, William E. – 1988
Based on the best available research, this publication describes the most effective methods of vocabulary instruction for the improvement of reading comprehension. Examples of useful approaches to vocabulary instruction aimed at students past the initial stages of reading are presented for use or adaptation by classroom teachers. The publication's…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
Shermis, Michael – 1989
This annotated bibliography contains 34 references on issues concerning adult literacy listed in the ERIC database. It contains citations from the period between 1987 and 1989 and is divided into four sections. The first section provides an overview of adult literacy. Articles and papers in the second section describe and discuss adult literacy…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Adults, Annotated Bibliographies
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Holbrook, Hilary Taylor – Journal of Reading, 1984
Discusses specific strategies that introduce the text and its concepts before the actual text reading. (AEA)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Reading Instruction, Reading Readiness, Reading Skills
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