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Peer reviewedKinney, Martha A. – Reading Teacher, 1985
Shows how the language experience approach is a useful tool in teaching expository prose structure to elementary school students. (EL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
Peer reviewedLehr, Fran – Journal of Reading, 1984
Examines several approaches to vocabulary development that are alternatives to direct vocabulary instruction. (AEA)
Descriptors: Classification, College Students, Humor, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedHolbrook, Hilary Taylor – Journal of Reading, 1984
Discusses specific strategies that introduce the text and its concepts before the actual text reading. (AEA)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Reading Instruction, Reading Readiness, Reading Skills
Ciani, Alfred J.; Hogue, Donald E. – Industrial Education, 1976
Presents 21 specific suggestions for improving students' reading ability. (TA)
Descriptors: Industrial Arts, Industrial Education, Reading, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedPreibusch, Wolfgang; Zander, Heidrun – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1971
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Language Instruction, Language Research, Linguistics
Lubke, Diethard – Neueren Sprachen, 1971
Descriptors: Context Clues, Definitions, Language Skills, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedKaplan, Elaine M.; Tuchman, Anita – Journal of Reading, 1980
Describes five strategies that foster independent learning of content area vocabulary. (MKM)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Context Clues, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies
Peer reviewedBlachowicz, Camille L. Z. – Reading Teacher, 1993
Describes a process for presenting and learning new vocabulary in middle-grade classrooms that focuses on context, questions involving interpretation, and using the word. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Context Clues, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Direct linkLawrence, Lisa Jean – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2007
The following article discusses cognitive and metacognitive reading strategies and the use of them particularly among bilingual students. It distinguishes between the two types of strategies. Strategy use among monolingual and bilingual students are described and compared. The article focuses on the need for strategy instruction, particularly…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Academic Discourse, Teaching Methods, Reciprocal Teaching
Summers, Stella – 1991
The practicum described in this paper used an eclectic approach to promote word meaning vocabulary growth in 14 fourth-grade students from an urban elementary school who had scored below 74% on a vocabulary pretest. Students were tutored once or twice a week for a 10-week period with direct vocabulary instruction, utilizing semantic mapping and…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Reading Comprehension
Download full textHodges, Richard E. – 1984
Intended for administrators and policymakers as well as teachers, this digest explores the nature of vocabulary and its implications for classroom instruction. After defining vocabulary and discussing some of the sources of English vocabulary, the digest examines how children's vocabularies develop. It then discusses the role of vocabulary…
Descriptors: Child Language, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Language Acquisition
Nagy, William E. – 1988
This paper synthesizes research on vocabulary learning and vocabulary instruction to provide teachers with a basis for using different techniques of vocabulary instruction to improve reading comprehension. The limitations of traditional definition and context-based instruction are discussed in the paper, and principles are outlined which explain…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Reading Comprehension
Paul, Peter V. – 1987
Although knowledge of multimeaning words is important for reading comprehension, deaf readers may know only the most common meanings or nuances of high-frequency multimeaning words. Results of a study are reported in which 33 profoundly hearing impaired students stratified into three equal age groups (ages 10, 11, and 12) were administered a…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Deafness, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education
Brand, Helena S. – Oregon English, 1982
The 12 activities presented in this pamphlet are intended to help make vocabulary study a stimulating experience for both teacher and student. The activities are as follows: (1) a commercially prepared list of suggestions for vocabulary development, (2) an exercise designed to relate vocabulary study to every day reading, (3) a variation of the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Learning Activities, Skill Development
Jund, Suzanne, Ed. – Wisconsin Reading Association Journal, 1979
The eight articles in this journal issue focus on vocabulary skills. The topics covered are semantic feature analysis, the use of highway survival terms in a vocabulary list, making vocabulary interesting to secondary students, word lists, the use of newspapers in creating vocabulary lists, six strategies underlying effective vocabulary programs,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Reading Skills
