Pupils need to experience a variety of reading activities in mathematics. Commercially published materials should be on the understanding levels of individual learners. Starting with the kindergarten level and progressing sequentially through the ensuing school years, pupils need to read meaningfully numerals used in the basic four operations, the…

Reading is a skill that can complement a hands-on approach in learning relevant facts, concepts, and generalizations pertaining to different units of study. Teachers should guide students to have the ability to identify unknown words prior to their actual reading of subject matter in science. Pupils tend to make minimal mistakes in word…

A "reading gap" exists in Israel in teaching of intermediate-level English. Reading aloud, focusing on new words and on literal comprehension questions may conflict with the goal of reading for meaning. A dual approach is proposed and demonstrated to achieve reading for language and for meaning. Sample mini-units are included. (CHK)

In today's mathematics classroom there is much concern about the students' lack of success. Mathematics teachers can successfully incorporate reading into their classrooms by: (1) promoting in-class reading activities; (2) teaching vocabulary; (3) emphasizing mathematical symbols; and (4) ensuring understanding of mathematical sentences. Reading…

This book offers strategies to help educators become increasingly effective in teaching various areas in content area reading and learning. The book includes the following chapters: "Content Area Reading: A Historical Perspective" (E. Dishner and M. Olson); "Content Area Reading: Current State of the Art" (T. Bean and J.…

Intermediate grade teachers can help students deal with content area reading problems by using the directed reading activity (DRA) approach. Prior to using this approach the teacher needs to decide the major concepts to be emphasized in the content selection, the vocabulary terms to be taught, the specific skills to be taught to aid in…

To discover the opinions of high school teachers regarding the need for teaching reading skills, an amended Vaughan Scale was administered to 388 teachers in 15 high schools in Michigan. The questionnaire consisted of 15 questions to which teachers responded on a Likert-type scale. The results supported the following conclusions: (1) teaching…

Intended to provide guidance for secondary school mathematics teachers who desire to maximize the reading abilities of their students and thus maximize students' performance, this report attempts to make the secondary school teacher aware of some of the difficulties encountered in reading mathematics and offers some techniques, activities, and…

The ability to select (a) suitable retrieval cues and (b) the main ideas of prose passages was examined in college students and in school students between fifth and twelfth grades. The ability to select the main elements of texts improved over the entire age range studied and was not affected by experience studying and recalling the passage.…

The easiest way for a content area teacher to find how effectively students can read materials assigned in class is to design a teacher-made inventory, using the materials to be read and studied by the students, called a Textbook Usage Inventory. Reading skills and resources that should be incorporated in the inventory include literal skills,…

Every reader possesses five distinct vocabularies--listening, speaking, reading, writing, and potential--which grow at different rates, depend on the background and motivation of a particular reader, and are positively related to overall intelligence and reading comprehension. If students are to gain complete understanding of reading material in…

The effectiveness of mapping for middle school students was tested, using 11 eighth graders who were taught to map short expository prose passages during approximately 12 hours of instruction. Mapping is an innovative reading comprehension strategy in which students identify the important relationships defining the text structure and re-represent…

A study was conducted to determine the effects of the "Cherry Hill Study Skills Program" on eighth grade students' reading comprehension and study skills. The "Cherry Hill Study Skills Program" is a process oriented course dealing with the sequential development of nine specific skills deemed essential to the retrieval and retention of information…

Designed to improve the reading skills of electronic students, these instructional materials include a series of reading passages taken from material actually used in an electronics course and a set of exercises dealing with reading for both main ideas and details. The exercises presented employ a variety of formats including identifying main…

The relationship between vocabulary development with comprehension and the reading process has been carefully studied and clarified--but little research has been conducted into the vocabulary demands of the academic disciplines. In spite of this, many colleges have devised courses in content area vocabulary development, even though the relevance…