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Direct linkGewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2012
An intensifying focus for teachers across the country is how to develop students' skills at reading and understanding informational texts. Teachers are rebalancing their fiction-and-nonfiction scales because the Common Core State Standards in English/language arts demand it. Since all but four states have adopted those guidelines, millions of…
Descriptors: State Standards, National Competency Tests, Nonfiction, Reading
Gewertz, Catherine – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2012
The Common Core State Standards' emphasis on informational text arose in part from research suggesting that employers and college instructors found students weak at comprehending technical manuals, scientific and historical journals, and other texts pivotal to work in those arenas. The common core's vision of informational text includes literary…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, State Standards, Reading Comprehension, Nonfiction
Rodia, Becky – Teaching Pre K-8, 2004
What does the National Football League have in common with a small K-6 school in Iowa City, Iowa? Two things: one is San Diego Chargers wide receiver Tim Dwight, who grew up in Iowa City, where he attended Mark Twain Elementary; the other is Twain third grade teacher Julie Busch, Tim's former teacher and--thanks to Tim's thoughtful…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Reading Comprehension, Peer Mediation, Elementary School Teachers
Download full textAbdo, Pamela J.; Chan, Amy E.; Englund, Tonya R.; Liljegren, Roy D.; Mielenhausen, Steve E.; Van Fossen, Margaret A. – 1998
This report describes a program designed to increase students' knowledge in the science content area utilizing reading comprehension strategies. The targeted population consisted of grade 6 middle school students in a growing urban community in eastern Iowa. The students demonstrated poor comprehension of their science textbook. Data also revealed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Action Research, Educational Strategies, Grade 6
Van Dusseldorp, Ralph A. – 1978
The third-party evaluation of the second year of the Iowa Central Community College Experience Based Career Education (EBCE) Project was based on examination of project records, interviews with project staff, student and resource persons, questionnaires completed by students, parents and resource persons, and test data collected on students at the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Education, Career Planning, Educational Testing
