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Tankard, James W., Jr. – 1987
A common technique to aid in developing critical thinking skills is to suggest pertinent and key questions and recommend that readers engage in an internal dialogue to answer these questions. This approach can be used effectively in reading newspaper articles and will become more useful with practice. Twelve constructive questions that newspaper…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Newspapers, Reading Comprehension
Download full textCarroll, Hazel Horn – 1974
This paper discusses affective strategies for teaching reading at the elementary school level. The contents include: "Use of Newspaper," which presents a chart of reading skills to be used by the teacher and provides such suggestions for developing interest in the newspaper as having a newspaper editor visit the classroom, role playing as…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Elementary Education, Newspapers, Reading
Verner, Zenobia Brown; Siedow, Mary Dunn – 1976
A study was conducted to assess the benefits of using the newspaper in reading classes for high school special education students. Students in one of two classes received two trimesters of instruction in basic reading skills through use of the newspaper. Students in the other class received one trimester of instruction in developmental reading and…
Descriptors: Newspapers, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction, Reading Research
Berryman, Charles – 1975
Five research reports on the use of instructional modules, originally published in the Atlanta "Journal and Constitution" as "Improving Reading Skills" and widely used in Georgia as the "Athens Model," are summarized in this paper. For research purposes, the modules were concentrated in time as a high saturation…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Newspapers, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
DeRoche, Edward F. – 1979
The effects of using newspapers as adjunct materials in education have been documented in recent research. Research results indicate that students are seriously deficient in civic knowledge, and that the newspaper can serve as a bridge between home, school, and community by educating youth about the real world and by influencing their knowledge of…
Descriptors: Current Events, Daily Living Skills, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Gillespie, Cindy – 1989
A great deal can be taught using the newspaper because this medium contains a variety of information in a number of differing formats. Straight news and sports stories can be used to teach or reinforce the skills of attending to detail, comparing and contrasting, categorizing, determining the main idea, understanding vocabulary, sequencing,…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials, Media Adaptation
