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Streb, Judith A. – 1984
The reading exercises in this workbook cover the general areas of vocabulary development; study skills; comprehension skills; and reading in the content areas. The latter consists of reading materials divided into four major sections: social studies, science, mathematics, and literature. The vocabulary skills include word meaning in context,…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Learning Activities, Programed Instructional Materials, Reading Assignments
Streb, Judith A. – 1984
The reading exercises in this workbook cover the general areas of vocabulary development; study skills; comprehension skills; and reading in the content areas. The latter consists of reading materials divided into four major sections: social studies, science, mathematics, and literature. The vocabulary skills include working with synonyms,…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Learning Activities, Programed Instructional Materials, Reading Assignments
Peer reviewedReutzel, D. Ray; Daines, Delva – Reading Psychology, 1987
Indicates that each instructional unit was composed of several mini-lessons rather than representing an integrated and related unit organized around a central purpose. Finds that lesson parts failed to make logical connections to previous or following parts. Concludes that the nature of reading lessons could be a contributing factor to the…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Coherence, Connected Discourse, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedBizzell, Pat; Herzberg, Bruce – Rhetoric Review, 1985
Reviews eight reading-across-the-curriculum textbooks, showing that four treat academic discourse only in its generic form, while four go beyond that level to look at the audience, purpose, and genre specific to particular disciplines. (RBW)
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Annotated Bibliographies, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing
Peer reviewedFox, Len – Journal of Basic Writing, 1979
Notes that English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers have been carefully nurturing student ability to produce language, while neglecting the receptive side of learning. Proposes that increased amounts of reading should be assigned at all levels of ESL programs. Suggests ways to restructure programs and to teach reading and vocabulary…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Higher Education, Reading Assignments, Reading Improvement
Lundby, Edwin O. – Minnesota Reading Quarterly, 1972
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Individualized Reading, Informal Reading Inventories, Motivation Techniques
Benetti, Jean – 1978
Newspapers are practical sources of materials to help students of English as a second language (ESL) reach some degree of reading competency. Nine objectives for using the newspaper with ESL students are presented, and teaching procedures and techniques that can be used in the classroom are described. For example, newspaper pictures can be used…
Descriptors: Adult Education, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedDyck, Norma; Pemberton, Jane B. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2002
This article examines a process for teachers to use when deciding whether to adapt a text for a student. The following five options for text adaptations are described: bypass reading, decrease reading, support reading, organize reading, and guide reading. Adaptations for student work products and for tests are also addressed. (Contains…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedBanner-Haley, Charles – Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, 1994
Asserts that all students should know that African Americans make up an integral part of U.S. history. Reviews two books, "In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture," by Kwame Anthony Appiah and "Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilation," by Gerald Early (ed.). (CFR)
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black History, Blacks, Books
Peer reviewedMcNeil, John D. – Reading Psychology, 1989
Describes an investigation to determine whether junior high school students generate important meanings from their social studies textbooks, and to assess the kind of information students derive from text when they have tests in mind. Indicates that adolescents isolate and particularize their reading to meet perceived test demands. (MG)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Junior High Schools, Knowledge Level, Questionnaires
Direct linkLiu, Keming – Urban Education, 2006
The differences in the ability to write critical and analytical essays among students with individual annotation styles were investigated. Critical and analytical writing was determined by the writer's ability to respond to a text with logical and critical analysis and attention to its thematic argument. Annotation styles were determined by ways…
Descriptors: Writing Ability, Critical Thinking, Metacognition, Learning Strategies
Leach, Mozelle P. – 1986
A study compared the results of a 1986 survey on the opinions of preservice teachers with those of a survey conducted in 1984 by William Bennett (at that time chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities). Bennett's survey asked respondents to list 30 works that students should be expected to read before high school graduation.…
Descriptors: Classics (Literature), Core Curriculum, English Curriculum, English Literature
Peer reviewedFlood, James; And Others – Reading Research and Instruction, 1989
Examines the role of the teacher in enhancing students' reading comprehension. Finds that the teacher is a more significant factor in the comprehension of lengthy natural texts than is the ease of the text itself. (MG)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Lecture Method, Reader Text Relationship
PRESTON, RALPH C.; AND OTHERS – 1963
THIS BOOK DISCUSSES FACTORS TO CONSIDER IN PREPARING A READING PROGRAM FOR A HIGH SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES COURSE. IT PRESENTS EXPLICIT COVERAGE ON WHY READING AT THIS LEVEL IN THIS SUBJECT FIELD REQUIRES GUIDANCE, HOW TO PROVIDE FOR INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN READING ABILITY, THE WAY TO READ SOCIAL STUDIES TEXTBOOKS, VOCABULARY, AND THE STIMULATION…
Descriptors: Elective Reading, High School Students, Independent Reading, Individual Differences
Peer reviewedSumara, Dennis J. – JCT: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1996
Describes how a college professor incorporates "commonplace books" into his courses, with reading and writing the focal practices in curriculum studies classrooms. He defines commonplace books as collecting places for various writings related to the courses. The books represent fragments of a variety of experiences in a variety of…
Descriptors: Books, College Students, Graduate Study, Hermeneutics
