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Peer reviewedGauthier, Lane Roy – Reading Teacher, 1989
Presents a strategy to improve students' comprehension of content material by having them read, discuss, and give written responses to items pertaining to short content texts. (MG)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Cooperative Learning, Intermediate Grades
Download full textArmbruster, Bonnie B.; And Others – 1990
An analysis was conducted of 12 fourth-grade science and social studies lessons in which a textbook was used as a focus of instruction. The purpose was to determine how the textbook was used by teachers and students, and in particular, to determine what kinds of questions the teachers asked during the textbook-based lessons. The results replicate…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Educational Research, Elementary School Science, Grade 4
Peer reviewedDurkin, Dolores – Reading Research Quarterly, 1978
Describes a study which examined through classroom observations of reading and social studies whether elementary schools provide comprehension instruction. Major findings included the fact that almost no comprehension instruction was found. (MKM)
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Intermediate Grades
