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Kossack, Sharon – Journal of Reading, 1986
Provides activities for teaching the skill of comparison using various parts of newspapers. (SRT)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Integrated Activities, Newspapers, Teaching Methods
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Dominguez, Ivo, Jr. – Journal of Reading, 1978
Describes a high school writing project which resulted in a science fiction novel. (MKM)
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Learning Activities, Novels, Secondary Education
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Josel, Carol A. – Journal of Reading, 1986
Describes a Silent Directed Thinking Activity that was based on an abridged version of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" and used with eighth-grade remedial classes. (HOD)
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Remedial Reading
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Sanacore, Joseph – Journal of Reading, 1983
Presents methods to stimulate students to use their background knowledge in reading content area texts. Offers a technique to teach students common text structures by having them write to a model. (FL)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Prior Learning, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
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Sinatra, Richard; And Others – Journal of Reading, 1986
Outlines the steps a college composition instructor can take to help students connect the idea relationships in a reading selection or in a writing assignment. The steps are based on a conceptual strategy known as semantic mapping or semantic networking. (SRT)
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Heuristics, Higher Education, Integrated Activities
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Strackbein, Deanna; Tillman, Montague – Journal of Reading, 1987
Provides teachers with instructions on effectively using student journals in classes at all levels. Gives examples of different types of personal writing students can engage in, suggests ways to respond to them, and lists benefits of and reservations about using journals in writing classes. (SKC)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Diaries, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
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Ryder, Randall James – Journal of Reading, 1985
Describes the instructional activities involved in Student Activated Vocabulary Instruction--a method of instruction involving three phases: conceptual assimilation, lexical refinement, and expression. (HOD)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Learning Activities, Reading Instruction, Secondary Education
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Eldridge, Bruce H. – Journal of Reading, 1985
Explains six instructional components, based on a psycholinguistic view of reading, for teaching the adolescent disabled reader to read. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools, Language Experience Approach
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Baechtold, Shirley; And Others – Journal of Reading, 1986
Describes how news magazines were used successfully as supplements to teach civic literacy, vocabulary, and writing to college level reluctant readers. Contains two sample exercises. (HOD)
Descriptors: Current Events, Developmental Studies Programs, Higher Education, Periodicals
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Paul, Michael – Journal of Reading, 1986
Notes that appropriate materials are hard to find for refugees of marginal reading ability in English as a second language programs and describes teacher-made exercises that use the students' prior knowledge and experience. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Cultural Differences, Daily Living Skills, English (Second Language)