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Moore, David W.; And Others – 1982
Based on the premise that what students know before they read an assignment will strongly influence what they learn by reading that assignment, this booklet provides strategies that teachers can use to evoke and enhance students' background knowledge in relation to content area reading. Following a foreword and preface, the first major section of…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities
Download full textWARWICK, EUNICE; AND OTHERS – 1964
THE MADISON, WISCONSIN, CURRICULUM GUIDE FOR THE TEACHING OF READING AND LITERATURE IN KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE SIX IS DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS. PART 1 CONTAINS THE MADISON POINT OF VIEW CONCERNING READING AND LITERATURE IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, AND PROVIDES FLOW CHARTS TO HELP THE TEACHER PERCEIVE THE TOTAL READING AND LITERATURE PROGRAM.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Interpretive Skills
Jenkinson, Marion D., Ed. – 1966
Participants in this conference represented France, Canada, the United States, Denmark, Japan, the United Kingdom, Austria, Norway, Germany, Sweden, Australia, Egypt, India, Israel, Ireland, and Brazil. Each of the 33 articles is printed in the language in which it was delivered (English except for two articles), and each is preceded by short…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, International Education, Literacy, Perceptual Development
Burie, Audrey Ann; Heltshe, Mary Ann – 1975
Designed for use in a self-contained or open space classroom with students from pre-school through age 8, this book contains: reading readiness games for developing visual motor skills, visual discrimination, and perception, and for promoting mental development; basic reading skills games that teach word perception, phonetic analysis, structural…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Content Area Reading, Early Childhood Education, Educational Games
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands – 1974
An evaluation of the English Language Skills Acceleration Project, a program used in ninth-grade reading instruction in two high schools in the Marshall Islands, is provided in this report. Included are a description of the program and its activities, a discussion and comparison of test results, an evaluation of the behavioral objectives with…
Descriptors: Acceleration, Grade 9, Language Arts, Language Skills
Peer reviewedTaglieber, Loni K.; And Others – TESOL Quarterly, 1988
Answers of undergraduate Brazilian English as a foreign language students (N=40) to an open-ended and a multiple-choice reading comprehension test revealed that three prereading activities (pictorial context, vocabulary preteaching, and prequestioning) resulted in higher reading comprehension. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Peer reviewedRawl, Ruth K.; O'Tuel, Frances S. – Reading Improvement, 1982
Compares the effects of DISTAR, Action Reading, and a cognitive development approach on the reading readiness and mathematical achievement of kindergarten children. Concludes that DISTAR was superior to the other programs on all variables. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Development, Kindergarten Children, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedHiebert, Elfrieda H.; Papierz, Jacqueline M. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1990
Determined that emergent literacy activities that experts identified as appropriate to instructional materials were not prominent in basal text materials. Found small differences between meaning- and decoding-oriented material in literary quality, letter-sound correspondence, and word identification. (BC)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Comparative Analysis, Decoding (Reading), Emergent Literacy
Direct linkConrad, Natalie K.; Gong, Yi; Sipp, Lillie; Wright, Lillian – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2004
In 3 second-grade classrooms within diverse educational settings, the theory of culturally responsive teaching was utilized in combination with the strategy, Text Talk. Text Talk is a strategy generally used with young children during read-alouds to foster oral language and comprehension. Culturally response teaching builds on students' prior…
Descriptors: Young Children, Oral Language, Teaching Methods, Grade 2
Hertz-Lazarowitz, Rachel; Schaedel, Bruria – 1997
A study investigated the effectiveness of the Success for All (SFA) program developed at Johns Hopkins University. The program emphasizes prevention of failure, personal tutoring, family-school program, and regular evaluation of student progress. In 1996, the program involved schools in northern Israel--Arabic and Jewish, religious and secular.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Mei, June Y., Ed. – 1985
The findings of a three-week visit in China by a study team of American scholars to examine the state of reading research and instruction in Chinese schools and universities are presented in the various articles of this report. Following an introduction describing the particulars of the visit, the report presents these articles: (1) "Chinese…
Descriptors: Adults, Bilingualism, Cultural Differences, Educational Attitudes
Markert, Sandra J. – 1974
This study examines the relationships between reading comprehension and listening comprehension among second graders with regard to age, reading ability, and intelligence. One form of the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test was administered to 66 second graders to measure reading comprehension and a revised alternate form of the same test measured…
Descriptors: Age, Auditory Training, Grade 2, Intelligence
Estes, Thomas H. – 1971
The effects of prereading techniques, specifically "advance organizers" and "structured overview" were studied by comparing retention and comprehension of reading material in high school students with and without prereading treatment. An advance organizer is a brief passage giving a general and inclusive introduction to material to be read. A…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Learning Readiness
Bracken, Dorothy Kendall, Ed.; Malmquist, Eve, Ed. – 1971
A collection of 28 papers deals with reading in various parts of the world. The following countries are represented: Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, India, Iran, New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden, and the United States. The papers are organized under four main headings: (1) Developmental Reading: This section discusses reading…
Descriptors: Automation, Child Language, Developmental Reading, Foreign Countries
O'Reilly, Robert P. – 1971
This manual first explains the system for classifying reading objectives developed for System for Objectives-Based-Evaluation--Reading (SOBE-R) and then presents the objectives themselves. The classification system is designed to facilitate the selection of behavioral objectives in the subject area of reading, here divided into six general…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Classification, Content Area Reading, Decoding (Reading)
