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Download full textSmith, Carl B. – 2000
This book provides directions and sample activities to help parents teach their children to follow an easy system for study reading: set clear purposes for study; ask targeted questions; read quickly for specific information; summarize effectively; and gather information from charts and tables. The first section, Flexibility and Reading Speed,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Charts, Content Area Reading, Critical Thinking
Peer reviewedEagan, Ruth – Reading Improvement, 1979
Describes how to set up a science project that concentrates on the language arts skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing as a means of introducing students to the reading and study skills they will need in their content area subjects. (FL)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Course Content, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Peer reviewedReadence, John E.; Moore, David – Reading Psychology, 1979
Discusses research that indicates the value of prereading and postreading in content area reading; explains the encoding specificity principle, which is the basis of methods that present similar cues during prereading and postreading. Describes several instructional applications of this principle. (GT)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedNold, John Lloyd – Journal of Geological Education, 1989
Examples of sets of questions on library readings designed to lead students into articles and emphasize important information and associated literature are presented for introductory geology courses, historical geology, structural geology, mineralogy, and petrology. (Author/CW)
Descriptors: College Science, Content Area Reading, Earth Science, Geology
Peer reviewedRyan, Janet – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1989
Discusses the lack of study skills found among non-science majors. Provides examples of how science courses differ from other courses. Gives some methods to help students study more effectively. (MVL)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Science, Content Area Reading, Introductory Courses
Pace, Ann J.; And Others – 1986
An earlier study found virtually no relationship between college students' reported studying practices and various tests of reading comprehension, so a second study investigated whether different results would be obtained with an instrument based on study strategies college students actually reported using. Scores on this instrument were to be…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, Data Analysis
Langer, Judith A. – 1986
Two studies examined the effects of writing on subject learning. For the first study, 322 ninth and eleventh grade students read passages from high school social studies and science texts and engaged in six writing-to-study conditions. Students who wrote essays scored lower on immediate topic knowledge posttests, while the students who used study…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, High Schools, Information Processing
Balajthy, Ernest – 1983
A study was conducted to determine if covert reader-generation of interspersed prequestions would affect recall of science-oriented prose. Sixty college freshmen in a basic skills reading course were divided into three groups: Group I received 5 hours of training and practive in the construction of self-generated questions, including recognition…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Freshmen, Content Area Reading, Higher Education
Hayes, David A.; Alvermann, Donna E. – Forum for Reading, 1984
A cyclical plan for studying that takes into account information processing strategies and their effective management by students consists of (1) specifying study purposes, (2) previewing the materials, (3) proceeding through the task incrementally, and (4) connecting the content to be learned to other knowledge about the material studied. Setting…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Higher Education, Intentional Learning
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1982
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The seven titles deal with the following topics: (1) the teaching of reading using art as a teaching tool, (2) the effectiveness of a written cueing summary in increasing reading rate and retrieval speed in two content area subjects,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Content Area Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Integrated Activities
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1985
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 9 titles discuss the following topics: (1) a comparison of the effects of three methods of vocabulary instruction on vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension; (2) the use of an elaboration strategy combined with classroom…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Annotated Bibliographies, Content Area Reading, Reading Comprehension
Darien Public Schools, CT. – 1980
The study skills program described in this guide was prepared for use by all content area teachers in order to develop mature, efficient readers in the junior high school. The various sections of the guide present (1) a comprehensive list of study skills that overlap both reading and library skills; (2) guidelines related to the student's study…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools, Listening Skills
Harding, Ida B. – 1980
The University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire has attempted to solve the problem of underprepared freshmen by offering adjunct classes to freshman level content courses. Currently ten adjunct classes in seven departments are taught and are used to integrate the teaching of learning and study skills into the teaching of the regular course content. Two…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Content Area Reading, Developmental Studies Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged
Cooper, Minna; And Others – 1964
This guide is designed to provide seventh-grade social studies teachers with materials needed to present instruction in reading skills and to teach those facts, concepts, and attitudes which are the aim of social studies education. Entries on the subject of westward expansion and transportation in New York State are arranged by topics, and…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Comprehension, Content Area Reading, Critical Thinking
Wilmington Public Schools, MA. – 1976
This curriculum guide is based on the belief that a reading program should help students develop the skills needed to read with ease and satisfaction, learn to use reading as a tool for learning, and develop an appreciation of literature and a lifelong interest in reading. Chapters deal with study skills, reading in the content areas, literature,…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Creative Reading, Critical Reading, Curriculum Guides
