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Download full textFuchs, Lucy – 1987
Intended for use by secondary school teachers in all subject areas, this booklet provides practical information, classroom activities and strategies for the instructor who wants to incorporate reading instruction into a particular content area. Following an introductory chapter that emphasizes the need for reading skills in contemporary society…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Lesson Plans
Hayes, David A. – 1985
A substantial amount of literature in education and psychology supports the notion that reading combined with writing enhances comprehension and recall. To investigate how various writing tasks affect thinking, a pilot study was conducted, which produced results consistent with the hypothesis that text engagement (student interaction with written…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, High School Students, High Schools
Cicardo, Barbara J. – 1977
The basic outline for a 16 sentence structured essay is a pattern that helps remedial writing students to improve their writing skills and that can be applied in the basic speech course and the remedial reading program as well. This document presents introductory comments about grading procedures for student essays based on the model and a…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Content Area Reading, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Guttinger, Hellen I., Ed. – 1977
The reading improvement activities in this handbook are intended for use by middle school social studies teachers. Focusing on study skills, vocabulary development, and comprehension development, the activities include (1) surveying social studies texts and content area reading materials, (2) outlining, (3) spelling, (4) syllabication, (5) word…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading
Guttinger, Hellen I., Ed. – 1977
The reading improvement activities in this handbook are intended for use by middle school language arts teachers. Focusing on study skills, vocabulary development, and comprehension development, the activities include (1) surveying literary materials, (2) outlining, (3) spelling, (4) syllabication, (5) word recognition, (6) using synonyms, (7)…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading
Prince George's County Public Schools, Upper Marlboro, MD. – 1980
This guide has been designed for use in teaching study skills to high school students, grades ten through twelve. It contains lessons developed and refined over a three-year period in the skills areas of listening, scheduling and task analysis, memory, notetaking, and using a textbook. Each skills area is developed in the context of a kindergarten…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Content Area Reading, English Instruction, High Schools
Holladay, Joanne; McGinty, Denise – 1978
In response to the expressed needs of students for preparation materials and classes relevant to graduate entrance examinations, a course designed to provide a review of math topics was created as part of a reading and study skills laboratory. Reading specialists are able to interface math teaching with their varied training in diagnosis,…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Diagnostic Teaching, Higher Education, Learning Laboratories
Manzo, Anthony V. – 1979
The college reading movement, its methods, organization, and, implicitly, the career opportunities within it, is critiqued in this report in terms of four categories of programs: (1) rapid reading with ancillary attention to study skills; (2) remedial type reading and study skills; (3) compensatory type programs; and (4) content area improvement…
Descriptors: College Programs, Compensatory Education, Content Area Reading, Developmental Programs
Taschow, Horst Gerard – 1969
A model of the decoding process as utilized in silent reading on the college level was reported. The model was conceptualized as a pyramid, whose apex represented silent reading comprehension. The body of the total reading model rested on the foundations of basic reading skills and higher-level reading skills which were followed by tentative…
Descriptors: College Students, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Models
Devine, Thomas G. – 1989
The purpose of this book on reading instruction in the elementary school is twofold: firstly, to share with colleagues some of the significant works of research and theory that suggest answers to important questions about reading instruction, and secondly, to describe specific teaching strategies implied by these answers. The book assumes that…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Content Area Reading, Early Reading, Elementary Education
Hawkins, Joseph A., Jr.; Bartlett, Joan C. – 1978
More than 50 college students participated in an investigation of the extent to which content area study skills programs influenced the attrition rates and grade point averages of health science students whose performance was marginal. Two experimental study skills programs were developed. In the first, 11 students were placed in a "how to study…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Content Area Reading, Dropout Prevention
Fraser, Barry J. – 1979
The Test of Enquiry Skills (TOES) is a group test designed to measure inquiry skills of junior high school students studying science, social sciences, or general studies. TOES is comprised of nine separate scales, each consisting of multiple-choice items. The following skills are measured: reference skills, including library usage, indexes and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Tests, Content Area Reading
Schnell, Thomas R.; Burnett, Richard W. – 1975
These two papers were presented at a two-part session on using a competency-based approach to secondary reading teacher preparation. The philosophy and rationale of a performance based approach to reading are discussed by Richard W. Burnett. Competency-based courses in secondary reading are contrasted with such courses in elementary reading and…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Competency Based Teacher Education, Content Area Reading
Sucher, Floyd – 1969
Much research and experimentation done in the past 10 years has drawn attention to secondary reading programs. Such programs are now being evolved for the schools. A segment of two secondary reading programs, the content area reading phase. is described here. These programs are examples of attempts to implement integrated instruction and…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Curriculum Design, Developmental Reading, Reading Ability
Kerstiens, Gene, Ed. – 1972
The papers in this volume were presented at the Fifth Annual Conference of the Western College Reading Association. Some of the titles of the papers are: "Reading/Study Skills Programs in Washington's Community Colleges: A Survey"; "The Pygmalion Plan"; "The Intermix Technique for Developing Study Skills"; "Reinforced Study"; "The Relationship of…
Descriptors: College Students, Conference Reports, Content Area Reading, Higher Education
