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Anders, Patricia L., Ed. – 1980
A selection of seven articles on teaching reading to high school students is presented in this report. The topics discussed are: (1) a structured approach to reading expository prose, (2) the effectiveness of sustained silent reading, (3) readability variations in secondary remedial high interest books, (4) the effects of previewing difficult…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, High Schools, Language Proficiency, Readability
Peer reviewedRowe, Deborah Wells; Rayford, Lawrence – Reading Research Quarterly, 1987
Indicates that a broad age range of students can use some purpose questions as cues to activate background knowledge. Suggest topic familiarity, amount of information presented, and the presence of genre clues as text features affecting schema activation. (NKA)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Context Clues, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 1
Anders, Patricia L., Ed. – 1982
Part of a continuing series intended for use by reading professionals interested in understanding and improving the reading of adolescents, this report contains four articles dealing with subjects of current interest. Topics covered in the articles are (1) the effects on readers' recall of directions describing passage structure, signaling, and…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Content Area Reading
Kirkley, Alma L. – 1981
A study examined whether the frequent use of advance organizers in the content areas would significantly improve the reading comprehension of junior high school compensatory education students. For ten weeks a group of 16 students was exposed to the continuous use of advance organizers (structured overviews, previewing, questioning, and…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Compensatory Education, Content Area Reading, Grade 7
Peer reviewedVande Kopple, William J.; Shoemaker, Allen – Visible Language, 1988
Explores how several kinds of metadiscourse that convey interpersonal meanings affect readers. Describes results of an immediate recall test given on two informative paragraphs which contained some modality markers. Discusses possible roles of modality markers in discourse processes. (KEH)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Coherence, Context Clues, Critical Reading
Download full textThompson, Dennis N.; And Others – 1986
A study was conducted to investigate ways in which reading comprehension could be instructionally influenced and whether that influence differentially affected young and elderly adult learners. The study attempted, too, to determine whether advance organizers--instructional aids designed to precede a main passage and to provide an organizational…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Advance Organizers, Age Differences, Aging (Individuals)
Risko, Victoria J.; Alvarez, Marino C. – 1982
Because thematic statements are too global to aid poor readers in comprehending texts, a series of studies using a common procedure was conducted to determine the relationship between teaching thematic concepts prior to reading and reading comprehension. The thematic organizers used in the studies contained three paragraphs that defined the…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Reading Ability
Greene, Frank P., Ed. – 1972
This is one of two volumes of papers drawn from the twenty-first annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1971. Focusing on research and teacher training concerns relating to mature reading, the 43 papers are arranged into the following categories: advanced organizers, cloze investigations, language investigations, measurement…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Advance Organizers, Cloze Procedure, Conference Reports
Croll, Valerie J.; And Others – 1986
A study investigated the effects of using topic-related pictures to build and activate readers' schemata as a means of increasing background knowledge and, consequently, reading comprehension. Subjects, two special education middle school students with low scores on standardized reading comprehension and vocabulary tests, were taught to interpret…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Development, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking
Pennock, Clifford, Ed. – 1979
Focusing on reading comprehension instruction at the word, sentence, paragraph, and larger unit levels, the articles in this volume were drawn from a variety of sources. The three articles in the first section deal with theoretical bases and conceptual concerns. Specific topics covered include the argument for a discourse analysis model, the…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Discourse Analysis
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 14 titles deal with the following topics: children's ability to read their own dictated oral language; adjunct structure and reading comprehension; learning and comprehension of simultaneously presented stimuli in children of…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Adults, Advance Organizers, Age Differences
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1981
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The ten titles deal with the following topics: (1) the composing process of adult basic writing students; (2) an integrated approach to reading and writing for college students; (3) the teaching and learning of reading in the…
Descriptors: Adults, Advance Organizers, Annotated Bibliographies, Classroom Techniques
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 12 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: the relationship of text organization to readability and reading ability; how advance organizers, outlining, and other preparatory procedures affect learning and…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Annotated Bibliographies, Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations
Lederer, Debra Yuhas – 1977
Theoreticians and empiricists have stressed the importance of organization in the learning process and, therefore, the importance of instructional strategies that help develop a child's ability to organize information. Theoreticians have also stressed the importance of the student's active participation in the learning process. The Directed…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Development, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking
Harris, Theodore L., Ed.; Cooper, Eric J., Ed. – 1985
Intended to help teachers both improve students' text comprehension and better understand the teaching-learning process involved, this book focuses on comprehension and concept development as the central core of an effective educational program. The book's five sections deal with teaching explicit comprehension skills, precomprehension and…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Content Area Reading
