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Edwards, Dennis H.; And Others – 1987
A description is provided of 12 reading skills strategies that were developed as part of a Reading across the Curriculum project to help students bridge the gap between their reading levels and the reading level of their textbooks. Following introductory information on the Reading across the Curriculum project, the 12 strategies are explained and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Content Area Reading, Learning Strategies
Richardson, Patricia Ann – 1986
A study explored whether the use of a study guide would improve students' comprehension of content area material. Two groups of students in an eighth grade social studies class were involved: students in the control group received the usual instruction--the chapter was read orally and discussed in class--while students in the experimental sample…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Grade 8
Bermudez, Andrea B.; Prater, Doris L. – 1988
Two studies of integrated language instruction for students of English as a second language (ESL) are reported. The first had two objectives: to (1) investigate the effects of writing activities on the comprehension and retention of content area reading and (2) examine the relationship between the students' ability to select the main idea and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education
Parrish, Berta, Ed.; And Others – 1979
This primer was developed to help secondary school business teachers to encourage and promote reading in their curricular programs. Guidelines and suggestions are offered on ways teachers can stimulate student reading by capitalizing on student interests and on ways teachers can reinforce vocabulary and comprehension skills. The manual's first…
Descriptors: Business Education, Content Area Reading, Language Skills, Reading Comprehension
An Art Teachers' Primer to Reading. Supplemental Material for RDG 467, RDG 480, RDG 507 and RDG 544.
Parrish, Berta, Ed.; And Others – 1978
This primer was developed to help secondary school art teachers to encourage and promote reading in their curricular programs. Guidelines and suggestions are offered on ways teachers can stimulate student reading by capitalizing on student interests and on ways teachers can reinforce vocabulary and comprehension skills. The manual's first section…
Descriptors: Art Education, Content Area Reading, Language Skills, Reading Comprehension
Parrish, Bert, Ed.; And Others – 1978
This primer was developed to help secondary school music teachers to encourage and promote reading in their curricular programs. Guidelines and suggestions are offered on ways teachers can stimulate student reading by capitalizing on student interests and on ways teachers can reinforce vocabulary and comprehension skills. The manual's first…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Language Skills, Music Education, Reading Comprehension
Parrish, Berta, Ed.; And Others – 1978
This primer was developed to help secondary school industrial arts teachers to encourage and promote reading in their curricular programs. Guidelines and suggestions are offered on ways teachers can stimulate student reading by capitalizing on student interests and on ways teachers can reinforce vocabulary and comprehension skills. The manual's…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Industrial Arts, Language Skills, Reading Comprehension
Parrish, Berta, Ed.; And Others – 1978
This primer was developed to help secondary school home economics teachers to encourage and promote reading in their curricular programs. Guidelines and suggestions are offered on ways teachers can stimulate student reading by capitalizing on student interests and on ways teachers can reinforce vocabulary and comprehension skills. The manual's…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Home Economics, Language Skills, Reading Comprehension
Download full textWebb, Norman L. – 1982
A summative evaluation of the instructional television series "Reading for a Reason" was conducted during the spring of 1982 as part of the premier showing of the series over the Wisconsin Educational Television Network. The series consisted of eight programs designed to teach skills for content area reading to seventh and eighth grade…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Educational Television, Grade 7, Grade 8
Reeseg, Carol lyn – 1984
A survey was conducted of junior and senior high school area teachers in the Rahway (New Jersey) public school system to determine what effect, if any, the two reading courses required by the state for all prospective teachers have had on the reading skills they teach. The questionnaire was composed of 80 multiple-choice statements and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Effectiveness
Sullivan, Joanna – 1977
This study compares the critical-reading strategies of 83 good and 72 poor sixth-grade readers and 96 good and 67 poor eighth-grade readers. After reading seven brief passages on social studies and science topics, the students responded to 42 statements that required either the ability to pull facts together and make conclusions based on unstated…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking
Jacobowitz, Tina – 1980
The strategies of active surveying and active skimming are previewing techniques that may enable high school students to discover independently the macrostructure of expository materials. Research has indicated that advanced knowledge of overall discourse structure improves reading comprehension by serving as a framework for organizing new,…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Classroom Techniques, Content Area Reading, High School Students
Nelson, JoAnne, Ed.; Hartl, David, Ed. – 1979
Designed by Washington curriculum specialists and secondary teachers to assist teachers in small schools with the improvement of curriculum and instruction and to aid smaller districts lacking curriculum personnel to comply with Washington's Student Learning Objectives Law, this handbook contains learning objectives in the areas of language arts,…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Communication Skills, Content Area Reading, Educational Objectives
Donaldson, Gregory; August, Bonne T. – 1979
A reading curriculum for adult learners is described, offering guidelines for instruction at three levels of reading equivalency (nonreader to third grade, third through sixth grade, and sixth through ninth grade). The curriculum is designed to help adults develop skills in reading, writing, mathematics, and studying in the content areas. After…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Reading Programs, Communication Skills, Content Area Reading
Cincinnati Public Schools, OH. – 1978
This report presents a description of a two-year district-wide project that was undertaken to develop a self-instructional teacher inservice training program focusing on techniques for teaching reading comprehension skills in English, science, mathematics, and the social studies at the secondary level. The various sections of the report contain a…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Inservice Teacher Education, Needs Assessment, Program Content
