Offering fresh alternatives to common instructional practices that fail to get results, this accessible, highly practical guide highlights ways to motivate middle school students while enhancing content-area learning. Each chapter features an enlightening case study of a teacher whose current strategies are not supported by research; describes…

Integration of subjects is something elementary teachers must do to insure required objectives are covered. Science-based Reader's Theatre is one way to weave reading into science. This study examined the roles of frequency, attitudes, and Multiple Intelligence modalities surrounding Electricity Content-Based Reader's Theatre. This study used…

The aim of the study was to examine reading and writing tasks as learning tools in higher education in Spain. The participants were 171 undergraduates from three different university degree courses. The data were gathered through a questionnaire that explored the kind of tasks carried out by the students, their perception of different aspects of…

Describes the Selective Reading Guide-O-Rama which is designed to help students in reading selectively and in distinguishing key ideas from supportive evidence and major points from minor points. (RB)

The paper presents strategies to help regular class teachers help their mainstreamed students read and learn better. The seven teaching ideas are offered for use in "whole class" settings and are designed to benefit both mainstreamed and regular students. Further, the strategies can be used by subject matter instructors who cannot become…

Describes a high school where reading is taught in every content area, including in marine biology, health, and United States History. (RB)

Tells content reading teachers some of the pitfalls to avoid and some of the new approaches to take in helping students benefit from reading. (RB)

A CURRICULUM GUIDE FOR THE SECONDARY CLASSROOM TEACHER DESIGNED TO EXTEND THE WORK OF THE READING TEACHER, TO MAKE ALL TEACHERS CONSCIOUS OF THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO TEACH READING, AND TO OFFER SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO PROMOTE GROWTH IN READING IS PRESENTED. THE FOLLOWING ARE DISCUSSED--HOW TO INTRODUCE A READING ASSIGNMENT, THE SQ3R APPROACH, SOME…

Selected for this listing of children's books are fiction and non-fiction books which add to an understanding of ecology, broadly considered here as the study of the interrelationships of organisms to each other and their environment. General ecology, natural resources, man and his environment, evolution and adaptation, appreciation, survival,…

Describes one reading lab's successful efforts to improve the study and content reading skills of students in classes throughout the university. (DD)

Notes several documents in the ERIC data base which describe successful content area reading programs and methods. (MKM)

Suggests that teachers should approach the content areas using a total lesson approach by adapting the directed reading activity method to content area instruction. Includes a brief discussion of the adaptation of the directed reading activity method and an explanation of each of the six steps as they might apply to the content area. (Author/ABB)