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Peer reviewedKelly, Leonard P. – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1994
A study with 18 deaf high school students found that skills that actually contribute to reading proficiency included use of prior text information, prior knowledge, reading speed and consistency, use of active memory for function words and inflections, and correct processing of relative clauses and the passive voice. Instructional implications are…
Descriptors: Deafness, Grammar, High Schools, Prior Learning
Warner, John F.; Warner, Margaret B. – 1987
Intended to increase reading motivation in students, this book features tales of ghosts and poltergeists. The tales range from the legendary to the contemporary. These accounts of ghost stories in the book provide subject matter for thoughtful interpretation and discussion, while challenging students in four critical reading categories: main idea,…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
Peer reviewedCargill-Power, Carol – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1980
Once bilingual students have reached an elementary level of reading competence in their second language; a step-by-step procedure can be followed to improve their reading skills through exercises and techniques which develop reading speed, vocabulary, and comprehension. (SB)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
Peer reviewedRogers, Douglas B. – Journal of Reading, 1984
Suggests that teachers can develop students' study-reading skills more successfully using investigative processes rather than workbook-type exercises. (AEA)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Evaluation Methods, Information Utilization, Notetaking
Peer reviewedHarker, W. J. – Reading, 1978
Provides an overview of three major categories of reading skills (word identification, comprehension, and rate) and of two basic types of study skills (those involving the location of information through reading and those involving organization of information) and shows how the skills are related to each other. (GT)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Information Seeking, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedPotter, Margaret L.; Wamre, Heidi M. – Exceptional Children, 1990
The paper outlines the rationale and development of curriculum-based measurement (CBM) and its empirical support; summarizes two reading models (Chall's stages of reading development and LaBerge and Samuels' model of automaticity); and discusses how CBM, with its use of oral reading rate measures, and the reading models may validate each other.…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Models
Oh, Paul – Instructor, 1999
Presents multimedia tools to enhance language arts and social studies lessons. These include stories on video; a computer program for increasing reading speed; and Educast, a free online service that gives teachers access to up-to-the-minute news along with extension activities and Internet-based, cross-curricular lesson plans. (SM)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Computer Uses in Education, Current Events, Educational Technology
Cheyney, Arnold B. – 1984
Recognizing that newspapers are among the best supplementary instructional materials, this booklet offers suggestions for the use of newspapers for teaching or reinforcing specific reading skills. The booklet focuses on inferential and evaluative comprehension skills, and the suggestions range from how to teach students to identify main ideas and…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. – 1980
This individualized inservice packet focuses on reading and study skills and their uses. It is one of a nine-part series of booklets--Teaching Teen Reading--in self-instructional format intended as a practical resource for teachers desiring condensed, readily usable answers to questions regarding reading instruction. Following a section on…
Descriptors: Educational Media, Independent Study, Inservice Teacher Education, Intermediate Grades
