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| Reading World | 252 |
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| Practitioners | 47 |
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| United States | 2 |
| Japan | 1 |
| United Kingdom (England) | 1 |
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| Elementary and Secondary… | 1 |
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| Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary | 1 |
| Slosson Intelligence Test | 1 |
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Peer reviewedStoodt, Barbara D.; Balbo, Elvira – Reading World, 1979
Describes a study in which a content teacher and a reading specialist taught students study skills and content together; analysis of the results showed that students who are taught study skills with content learn better. (TJ)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Interdisciplinary Approach, Reading Consultants, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedBeatty, Ross, Jr. – Reading World, 1975
Suggests reading teachers use Bloom's Taxonomy as a framework for teaching comprehension, notes why it is a valid instructional tool, briefly explains Bloom's Taxonomy, and demonstrates how specific comprehension skills fit Bloom's categories. (RB)
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedMeyer, Ronald E.; Cohen, S. Alan – Reading World, 1975
Concludes there was no difference in vocabulary development between a group receiving heavy vocabulary instruction but little tradebook reading and a second group receiving almost no direct teaching of vocabulary but heavy tradebook reading. (RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Development, Reading Instruction, Reading Research
Peer reviewedClark, Earl D. – Reading World, 1975
Examines the role of the college reading professor in terms of applying pure research to the realities of classroom instruction. (RB)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Higher Education, Methods Courses, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedPikulski, John J. – Reading World, 1974
Reviews the concept of criterion referenced testing and examines several of its applications for reading diagnosis in clinical situations. (RB)
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Education, Reading Centers, Reading Diagnosis
Peer reviewedKleederman, Frances F. – Reading World, 1975
Presents a review of the literature on the relationship between black English and reading problems. (RB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Black Dialects, Educational Philosophy, Higher Education
Peer reviewedKoe, Frank T. – Reading World, 1978
Presents a rationale for oral language management and suggests possible classroom practices for enhancing its use. Language management is defined as an attempt to guide the linguistic oscillations from learner to learner, thus encouraging content-centered talk by the teacher or learner, or both. (JMO)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Language Skills
Peer reviewedDishner, Ernest K.; Readence, John E. – Reading World, 1977
Offers suggestions which can help reading specialists provide practical assistance to the content area teacher. (JM)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Diagnostic Teaching, Middle Schools, Reading Diagnosis
Peer reviewedBlanton, Bill – Reading World, 1972
Discusses the contributions of Sesame Street'' to reading and reviews some of the literature concerned with junior college level reading programs. (MM)
Descriptors: Course Objectives, Disadvantaged Youth, Prereading Experience, Preschool Education
Peer reviewedBaumann, James F. – Reading World, 1983
Presents a practical strategy for teaching reading comprehension that is based on current research and consists of five steps: (1) introduction, (2) example, (3) direct instruction, (4) teacher-directed and (5) independent practice. Provides sample lessons for each step. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedMendak, Peggy Ann – Reading World, 1983
Argues that reading teachers need to be aware of the art of hypothesizing ("guessing") and foster its development in their students. Offers guidelines to facilitate guessing. (FL)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Cognitive Processes, Questioning Techniques, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedColey, Joan D. – Reading World, 1983
Describes structured and open-ended evaluation techniques that permit students in a reading center to rate their own reading performance. (FL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Learning Laboratories
Peer reviewedHofler, Donald B. – Reading World, 1983
Argues that syllabication is a highly sophisticated skill requiring extensive knowledge of types of syllables, vowels, and consonants and their various graphic representations, and that syllabicating words in terms of sound patterns may give divisions that are more consistent with speech patterns. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Primary Education, Reading Instruction, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
Peer reviewedClark, Charles H.; Bean, Thomas W. – Reading World, 1982
Notes that after 20 years of research on advance organizers there is little unequivocal evidence regarding their efficacy and optimal use. Discusses two aspects of this research that are probably responsible for these findings: lack of scientifically objective advance organizer construction and definition and the lack of objective and valid…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Research
Peer reviewedRobeck, Carol P. – Reading World, 1981
Examines the relationship between performance on five Piagetian tasks and three measures of reading achievement in primary school children. Concludes that the relationship is minimal and inconsistent across different measures of reading as well as across grade levels. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Primary Education
