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| Reading World | 4 |
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| Information Analyses | 4 |
| Journal Articles | 4 |
| Guides - Classroom - Teacher | 2 |
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Peer reviewedKennedy, Mary Lynch – Reading World, 1980
Proposes that the difficulty of many developmental/remedial college students is not a specific reading or writing problem but insufficient precollege experience with written discourse. Discusses the impact of reading instruction on writing and of writing instruction on reading. (Author/FL)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reading Difficulties, Reading Improvement, Reading Skills
Peer reviewedVacca, JoAnne L.; Sparks, Casandra – Reading World, 1981
Offers evaluation methods based on criteria that relate directly to instructional techniques appropriate for adult learners, benefit both teacher and student, and preserve the integrity of the mature student. (Author/FL)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Reading Programs, Adult Students, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedNeuman, Susan B. – Reading World, 1980
Analyzes the procedures used in mastery learning to determine if they are consistent with those of the skills management approach to reading instruction. Concludes that they are not. (FL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Theories, Mastery Learning
Peer reviewedHunter, Jill – Reading World, 1982
Identifies 10 areas that are vital to successful remedial reading instruction and offers specific suggestions of ways to ensure success in each area based on a theoretical view of reading as an active, thinking process influenced by a child's conceptual abilities and language experience. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Language Skills, Learning Theories
