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Download full textLevin, Joel R.; And Others – 1981
A study combined a simple mnemonic counting system with the keyword method to determine whether the keyword vocabulary methods can be effectively combined with other mnemonic strategies to facilitate coding of numerically ordered information. This system was then taught to 48 eighth-grade students in the context of learning the names and numbers…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Grade 8
Sullivan, Joanna – 1977
This study compares the critical-reading strategies of 83 good and 72 poor sixth-grade readers and 96 good and 67 poor eighth-grade readers. After reading seven brief passages on social studies and science topics, the students responded to 42 statements that required either the ability to pull facts together and make conclusions based on unstated…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking
Peer reviewedYore, Larry D.; Craig, Madge T.; Maguire, Tom O. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1998
This study sought to develop and verify the Index of Science Reading Awareness (ISRA) based on a model of an efficient, successful interactive-constructive science reader and three independent metacognitive awareness domains. Results did not support the assumption about the three independent metacognitive awareness domains and also indicated that…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Grade 4, Grade 5
