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Capobianco, E. Sharon; And Others – 1977
The focus of this manual is on the step-by-step development of certain study skills related to the mastery of content-area reading materials. An introduction includes discussion of goals, advice for organizing learning stations, guidelines for a general pretest of skills, a teacher checklist for evaluation of study-skill competencies, and…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Guidelines, Learning Activities, Reading Improvement
Download full textDonlan, Dan; Singer, Harry – 1979
Three methods of preposed questioning aimed at improving student comprehension of short stories were tested with a group of high school students. The methods were as follows: teacher-prepared, preposed questions, self-preposed questions (student-prepared), and schema self-preposed questions (embodying teacher-specified limitations within which…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Comprehension, Content Area Reading, Questioning Techniques
Huang, Tsokan, Comp. – 1979
The 55 entries in this bibliography represent books published between 1960 and 1979. The entries deal with a variety of topics, including the following: reading success and personality characteristics; reading instruction; participating in secondary school reading; helping the nonreading student; classroom strategies; remedial reading; developing…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Program Development, Reading, Reading Improvement
CARTER, HOMER L.J.; MCGINNIS, DOROTHY J. – 1967
THE FOLLOWING PRINCIPLES FOR CONDUCTING COLLEGE-ADULT READING PROGRAMS WERE IMPLEMENTED IN THE WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY READING PROGRAM--(1) THE TEACHER MUST STIMULATE, INFORM, AND GUIDE, (2) EVERY STUDENT SHOULD KNOW HIS OWN READING ABILITY AND SELECT FOR HIMSELF THE READING SKILLS HE NEEDS, (3) THE STUDENT SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT HE CAN…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Content Area Reading, Functional Reading, Independent Reading
Adams, Effie Kaye; Scott, Elois M. – 1980
College students were compared to adults for their reading comprehension of news items on two critical issues of national concern. The subjects were 109 adults and 97 college students who read ten short magazine articles on the Iran-United States hostage crisis and the U.S. energy problem. After reading the articles, the subjects' comprehension…
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Content Area Reading
Baker, Linda; Brown, Ann L. – 1980
The importance of metacognition to the process of critical reading is discussed in this report. Specifically, the report covers two areas of research: (1) reading for meaning, which involves the metacognitive activity of comprehension monitoring, and (2) reading for remembering, which includes identifying important ideas, testing one's mastery of…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Elementary Education, Metacognition
Harris, Connie; And Others – 1977
This paper describes four Arizona schools' peer tutoring programs in reading and study skills for specific content areas. The first, at West High School, stresses training of tutors in self-awareness and specific teaching techniques. A special time is set aside for tutoring; a waiting list attests to the program's success. At Central High School,…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Peer Teaching, Program Descriptions, Reading Instruction
Laffey, James L., Comp. – 1968
A bibliography, with descriptive abstracts, of articles dealing with research on reading in the content fields is presented. The listing is divided into two parts: a bibliography from research literature which focuses on general content reading skills and an "Other Subjects" bibliography selected from literature dealing with areas other than the…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Language Arts, Mathematics
Hittleman, Daniel R. – 1977
Adaptive assessment procedures are a means of determining the quality of a reader's performance in a variety of reading situations and on a variety of written materials. Such procedures are consistent with the idea that there are functional competencies which change with the reading task. Adaptive assessment takes into account that a lack of…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Functional Reading, Miscue Analysis, Reading
Berdiansky, Betty; Stanton, George – 1969
Previous work has led to identification of an extensive lexicon on which the Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) 1970 primary-grade reading program will be based, as well as to the development of a considerable number of sound-symbol correspondence rules (see Berdiansky, Cronnell, and Koehler, 1969). The present document describes the initial…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Dictionaries, Language Skills, Primary Education
Tomlinson, Barbara; Tomlinson, Michael – 1975
In order to help college students in their transition to college level work in biology and to increase their achievements in that field, a special reading and study skills adjunct course was organized. The course focused on the methods and materials of the introductory course for biology majors and attempted to build the students' skill…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biology, College Freshmen, Content Area Reading
Dishner, Ernest K. – 1973
The cloze procedure, a technique for determining the difficulty level of written material, involves the systematic deletion of words from a prose selection and the supplying of the missing words by a student or a group of students. The students' ability to supply these words is a significant indicator of how well they comprehend the written…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials
Courtney, Leonard – 1973
Described in this paper is a technique for reading instruction at the secondary level which emphasizes paragraph-passage examination and is intended to fit into any content teacher's daily work. The technique described provides occasion to establish purpose in reading-study assignments, utilize experience and previous background to develop…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Reading, Reading Development
Siebenman, Jeanne; And Others – 1973
This study investigated a ninth grade developmental reading program--reading taught in a reading classroom by a reading teacher--in hopes of determining what could be considered an adequate length of time needed in this type of situation for a student to show specific gains and a definite carry over of skills into the content areas. Ninth grade…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Developmental Reading, Grade 9, Reading
Schewe, Douglas H.
The development of American vocational education has evolved to a well-defined program of a practical orientation that has led the vocationally oriented students to define his goal so narrowly that no room is left for reading skills needed in coping with the burgeoning changes and innovations of modern business and industry. The first goal of…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Cooperative Planning, Curriculum Design, History
