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Download full textPearson, P. David – 1984
Today, more than ever before, teachers are devoting much of their intellectual and emotional energy to helping students better understand the school texts that they are required to read. This can best be accomplished through six changes in the way reading comprehension is taught: (1) accept an active-constructive model of reading comprehension;…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Theories
McLeod, Alan M., Ed. – Virginia English Bulletin, 1984
This theme issue of the "Virginia English Bulletin" focuses on "Literature and Its Teaching." The 15 major articles are: "Response to Literature" (Robert C. Small and Ruth Fisher); "The Power of a Good Book" (Gayle Sterrett); "Some Plain Truths about Teaching English" (Coalition of English Associations); "Introducing High School Students to…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, English Literature
Matt, Stephen R. – 1983
To provide learners with the most reliable information, individuals and committees responsible for text selection examine texts for classroom use in steps. Since very few people have the specialized knowledge of all the technical fields like drafting, electronics, or graphics that make up the field of Industrial Arts, a committee is required to…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Evaluation Criteria, Industrial Arts, Postsecondary Education
Oklahoma State Dept. of Education, Oklahoma City. – 1985
This publication notes that while the elementary school student must learn to read, the secondary school student must read well to learn. With this purpose in view, this curriculum guide presents checklists that can serve as organizational tools for teachers who wish to plan meaningful reading experiences that develop skills and strategies for use…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Curriculum Development, Functional Reading, Mastery Learning
Howard, Joseph E., Jr. – 1980
To help community college reading teachers be aware of the connectives (conjunctions that join other words, phrases, clauses, or sentences) used in textbooks, a study was undertaken to find out which connectives appeared in a sample of 18 textbooks and which were used in the textbooks for three different subject areas--social science, physical…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Conjunctions, Content Analysis, Content Area Reading
Rupley, William H.; Logan, John W. – 1984
To explore the relationships between teachers' knowledge of basic reading content, beliefs about reading, and decisions about the importance of specified reading learning outcomes, two existing instruments (Knowledge Test of Reading for Elementary Teachers and Propositions About Reading Instruction Inventory) and one researcher-developed…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
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
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 26 titles are concerned with a variety of topics related to reading skills and reading achievement in content-area courses or life situations, including the language of commonly used forms; the readability of a state driver's…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Consumer Education, Content Area Reading, Doctoral Dissertations
Chapman, Carmen Woods – 1982
Designed as an overview of the 1979 and 1980 Illinois Inventory of Educational Progress (IIEP) in fourth, eighth, and eleventh grade reading, this report presents the results for each grade level along with performance comparisons between years and topic areas (using sources of information and reading in the social sciences, literature, and the…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 11
Boraks, Nancy E. – 1981
Arguing that American schools are not meeting their goals in developing concerned, active citizens who seek to continue to read and learn after their formal schooling has ended, this paper supports this argument by citing information concerning adults' use of books and mass media. The first section of the paper assesses current adult reading and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adults, Content Area Reading, Educational Improvement
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
Summers, Edward G., Ed.; Lukasevich, Ann, Ed. – 1978
Each of 1,067 articles selected for classification in this index were analyzed and individual annotations were written following specifically prepared guidelines. Entries are listed according to the following classification: reading in general; reviews and bibliographies; the correlates of reading, including general, intellectual,…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Anders, Patricia L.; Mitchell, Judy Nichols – 1978
A total of 373 teachers participated in a study designed to compare the reading attitudes, awareness, and abilities of elementary school and secondary school teachers. The subjects were administered four instruments to measure their reading abilities, reading habits, perceptions of the reading process (including perceptions of their own reading…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Content Area Reading, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
