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Direct linkKingsley, Tara L.; Cassady, Jerrell C.; Tancock, Susan M. – Reading Horizons, 2015
This quantitative study was developed to explore the ability to impact elementary student 21st Century online research skills with a planned classroom intervention curriculum. The repeated measures quasi-experimental study randomly assigned all 5th grade classes in a Midwestern, suburban school (n = 418) to a 12-week intervention or control…
Descriptors: Research Skills, Internet, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
Peer reviewedMuir, Sharon – Reading Horizons, 1978
Discusses the accuracy of the Fog Index and the SMOG grade (two readability formulas) as predicators of readability. (MAI)
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Predictive Validity, Readability, Readability Formulas
Peer reviewedDunn, Sharon – Reading Horizons, 1979
Describes techniques and cites materials to use with gifted children in creative reading instruction. (MKM)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Childrens Literature, Critical Reading, Gifted
Peer reviewedSmith, Lawrence L. – Reading Horizons, 1984
Describes two modifications to the SMOG Readability Formula designed to make it more useful for primary and intermediate grade materials. (FL)
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Primary Education, Readability Formulas, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedCoffman, Gerry A.; Spohn, Judy Jackson – Reading Horizons, 1996
Demonstrates how alphabet books for upper elementary and middle school readers may be incorporated in instruction. Shares titles of alphabet books for older readers and activities for applying these books in the areas of reading comprehension, vocabulary, self-interest, research, and poetry. (RS)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools
Peer reviewedWalker, Michael L. – Reading Horizons, 1995
Investigates whether or not SRQ2R (Survey, Read, Question, Recite, Review) usage is facilitated by pretraining in text structures or main ideas. Finds that SRQ2R was effective in improving fourth- through ninth-grade students' higher-level thinking skills and their comprehension of expository material. (RS)
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools
Peer reviewedGauthier, Lane Roy – Reading Horizons, 2000
Examines how the role of questions in literacy instruction has always been strong, whether requiring answers involving rote memory or the activation of higher level critical thinking processes. Presents a six-step strategy for questioning followed by a field-tested group of fifth graders' responses to each step. (SC)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Thinking, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedWiesendanger, Katherine D. – Reading Horizons, 1986
A replication of D. Durkin's classic study of comprehension instruction reveals that the study has had profound effects on the way reading is now taught. (FL)
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Questioning Techniques, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedMcMackin, Mary C. – Reading Horizons, 1998
Describes a system used for introducing expository text structure to upper elementary and middle school students through the use of narrative picture books. Includes graphic organizers for expository text patterns, forms for expository discourse, and lists of narrative picture books and of nonfiction magazine articles according to their expository…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedBecker, Ruth R. – Reading Horizons, 1999
Examines four fifth-grade students' stances and their responses to a narrative text in three classroom activities--a peer-led discussion group, a story map activity, and written responses. Investigates issues regarding the accessibility of shifts in stance for the students. Calls into question L. Rosenblatt's construct of the aesthetic-efferent…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Case Studies, Class Activities, Discussion Groups
