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| Clearing House | 3 |
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| Guides - Classroom - Teacher | 3 |
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Peer reviewedMemory, David M. – Clearing House, 1983
Argues that content area teachers should assume the major responsibility for preparing students in the areas commonly assessed in minimum competency tests. Sets forth four problems in convincing content area teachers to assume this role and offers techniques for persuading them to do so. (FL)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Functional Reading
Peer reviewedGray, Mary Jane – Clearing House, 1988
Notes that in the fourth grade, readers begin a transitional period where emphasis shifts from experiential reading to include informational and expository material. Discusses reading in the different content areas--English, history, mathematics, and science--and asserts that teachers should spend more time preparing students to read in these…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedJones, Mary Louise – Clearing House, 1983
Suggests different strategies for helping the educationally disadvantaged high school student improve his or her reading, study, writing skills. (FL)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Educationally Disadvantaged, Learning Activities, Reading Difficulties
