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Compton, Joe; Smith, Carl, Comp. – 1990
Originally developed for the Department of Defense Schools (DoDDS) system, this learning package on television viewing and reading is designed for teachers who wish to upgrade or expand their teaching skills on their own. The package includes a comprehensive search of the ERIC database; a lecture giving an overview on the topic; the full text of…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Television, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Wilson, Rosemary – Australian Journal of Reading, 1986
Describes a reading program for teaching study strategies in depth that integrates reading development with content area teaching. Recommends that course content teachers be responsible for reading development and that these teachers be offered instruction in teaching the strategies appropriate for study reading. (SRT)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Higher Education, Metacognition, Program Content
Higginson, Bonnie C. – 1986
A study investigated whether high school students employ different study strategies in different content areas and whether their study strategy selections are influenced by the degree to which they are familiar with these topics. Subjects, 79 high school juniors, read one familiar and one unfamiliar passage from both history and chemistry…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Bound Students, Content Area Reading, Grade 11
Download full textDuke, Charles R. – 1982
Teachers should be making every effort to use approaches for teaching literature that encourage students to discover the meaning of a text for themselves, using the language of the text and without unnecessary teacher intervention. Therefore, rather than having the students be led by the teacher/interpreter through a work they encounter the first…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Arts, Literary Criticism, Literature Appreciation
Nelson, Robert L. – 1989
In order to get some idea of how 18- to 25-year-olds felt about some of their reading moments in school, a reading interest survey was given to 189 college students at the University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse. Females reacted more positvely to questions about the impact of teachers, home life, and methods on their feelings for reading. Oral reading…
Descriptors: College Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Environment, Higher Education
Regional Laboratory for Educational Improvement of the Northeast & Islands, Andover, MA. – 1986
Continuing the work synthesized in the Commission on Reading report "Becoming a Nation of Readers," this guide charts 31 programs (described in "Educational Programs That Work") validated by the National Diffusion Network that meet the commission's 17 major recommendations. The guide will enable educators to see which of the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education
Nist, Sherrie L.; And Others – 1983
Process comprehension helps students both to see why they make comprehension errors and to develop techniques to correct these problems. Keeping journals of their behavior while reading magazine articles helps students recognize relationships between their rate, comprehension, interests, and personal reading habits. Once students have developed an…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Paperback Books
