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Peer reviewedFuentes, Peter – Clearing House, 1998
Argues that mathematics instruction is dependent not just on numbers and their manipulation, but on language, literacy, and comprehension. Uses original examples of mathematical texts to map out a rationale for the teaching of reading in math, and includes a range of practical suggestions for the math teacher that support the "spiraling" of…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Mathematics Instruction, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedDraper, Roni Jo – Clearing House, 1997
Describes a jigsaw puzzle activity, a two-part cooperative learning activity useful at any level of mathematics instruction, intended to teach students to become "strategic readers" of their mathematics textbooks. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedMemory, David M. – Clearing House, 1981
Suggests that content-area teachers can encourage students' voluntary reading by maintaining classroom collections of subject-related books and magazines and by providing class time for independent reading. (SJL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Content Area Reading, Independent Reading, Reading Improvement
Peer reviewedShuman, R. Baird – Clearing House, 1975
Teachers were advised on methods of developing reading skills for students who are disabled readers and a reading checklist of content areas was added as a beginning in teaching reading. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Problem Solving, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulty
