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Download full textFoorman, Barbara R.; Smith, Kevin G.; Kosanovich, Marcia L. – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2017
The implementation of effective instructional materials, such as a core reading program, by a qualified teacher is an important part of improving students' reading achievement. But selecting those instructional materials can be time-consuming. Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Southeast created this rubric for evaluating reading/language arts…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Instructional Material Evaluation, Reading Instruction, Language Arts
Hanson, Susan; Padua, Jennifer F. M. – Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL), 2011
The Effective Instructional Strategies Series is a collection of six booklets based on the components used in Pacific Communities with High-performance In Literacy Development (Pacific CHILD), a principles-based professional development program consisting of research-based teaching and learning strategies proven to help improve students' reading…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Reading Comprehension, Layout (Publications), Reading Instruction
Padua, Jennifer F. M. – Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL), 2011
The Effective Instructional Strategies Series is a collection of six booklets based on the components used in Pacific Communities with High-performance In Literacy Development (Pacific CHILD), a principles-based professional development program consisting of research-based teaching and learning strategies proven to help improve students' reading…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Direct linkLent, ReLeah Cossett – Teachers College Press, 2009
Written for the busy practitioner by an experienced professional development consultant, writer, and speaker, "Literacy for Real" is a hands-on guide to meaningful reading across the content areas of math, science, and social studies in grades 6-12. It presents key information that addresses all types of 21st century literacy--visual, digital, and…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Critical Reading, Content Area Reading, Literacy
Wallach, Geraldine P.; Charlton, Stephen; Christie, Julie – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2009
Purpose: This final article covering the topic of the interplay between decoding, comprehension, and content versus structure knowledge describes a set of language initiatives that are focused toward content area learning. Inspired by the work of their colleagues from diverse fields and their own work, the authors offer suggestions to clinicians…
Descriptors: Intervention, Textbooks, Written Language, Connected Discourse
Peer reviewedBrown, Mary Jo McGee – Theory into Practice, 1981
Although students may read every word of an assignment, a lack of ability to make meaningful connections between words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs can make it impossible for them to interpret and apply what they read. Strategies are given for increasing reading comprehension in social studies instruction. (JN)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Reading Comprehension, Secondary Education, Social Studies
Peer reviewedClayton, Victoria; Nordstrom, Virginia – Education Libraries, 1987
This annotated bibliography of works on semantic mapping includes texts, which instruct in the use of mapping, and articles that provide examples of its use in curriculum planning, reading comprehension, and vocabulary/concept development. (CLB)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Content Area Reading, Higher Education, Library Instruction
Rasinski, Timothy V., Ed.; Padak, Nancy D., Ed.; Church, Brenda Weible, Ed.; Fawcett, Gay, Ed.; Hendershot, Judith, Ed.; Henry, Justina M., Ed.; Moss, Barbara G., Ed.; Peck, Jacqueline K., Ed.; Pryor, Elizabeth, Ed.; Roskos, Kathleen A., Ed. – 2000
Whatever grade level, content, or texts that educators teach, their ultimate goal is to develop their students' understanding of what they read. The 29 articles in this anthology were published in "The Reading Teacher" from 1993 to 1999 and offer ideas to help students comprehend different types of texts and literacies, from technology…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Readence, John E.; Moore, David W.; Rickelman, Robert J. – 2000
Research has informed educators about the value of preparing students for reading in the content areas, but how do teachers begin the complicated task of planning effective prereading activities that maximize their students' learning? This book provides practical activities that promote the learning of adolescents in their daily work in content…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Content Area Reading, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Strategies
Peer reviewedLehr, Fran – Reading Teacher, 1980
Discusses instructional approaches to content area reading that are described in ERIC documents. Among the areas discussed are prereading activities; strategies to support comprehension as students read; an integrated approach to vocabulary, comprehension, and textbook organization; and kits of materials for integrating reading skills into content…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials
Dwyer, Edward – Indiana Reading Quarterly, 1985
The prefaces of textbooks have considerable value as aids in helping students profit more from their reading. But they are frequently ignored by most young readers and rarely if ever assigned by teachers in a formal manner as aids to instruction. A model teaching unit originally using a social studies text can lead students to see the value of a…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Higher Education, Models, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedPerry, Mary Elizabeth; Strenski, Ellen – Social Education, 1984
The study questions on this one-page guide can be used in the history classroom to help students identify the important features of a historical document. The questions can be used as the basis of class discussion, or they can serve as a preliminary writing assignment before a major essay. (RM)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, History Instruction, Primary Sources
Peer reviewedMoore, David W.; Readence, John E. – Journal of Reading, 1983
Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of four methods of teaching reading in the content areas: (1) presenting isolated skills, (2) "aiming" toward content, (3) "guiding" toward content, and (4) presenting skills and content concurrently. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedVan Jura, William J. – Journal of Reading, 1982
Uses the questioning techniques of the Directed Reading-Thinking Activity and the Guide-O-Rama to enhance social studies students' reading comprehension. (AEA)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Questioning Techniques, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedStevens, Kathleen C. – Reading Horizons, 1982
Proposes that rather than "water down" children's reading materials, educators should help students deal with the complexities of connected discourse so that they can learn to appreciate the richness of the language. Offers a number of teaching ideas for achieving this goal. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Comprehension
