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Raymond, Patricia Mary – Modern Language Journal, 1993
The question of whether French-as-a-second-language reading can be facilitated by teaching some organizational patterns of discourse was investigated. It was concluded that strategic training is highly complex and difficult and that cumulative evidence is required to assess its usefulness in improving reading recall. (Contains 41 references.) (LB)
Descriptors: Expository Writing, French, Language Tests, Reading Comprehension
Hoyt, Linda – 2002
This book provides a practical classroom guide to unlocking the treasures of informational texts. It also aims to demonstrate that reading and writing nonfiction can overcome the gender gap, allowing girls and boys to share interests in any subject from bugs and magnets to gardens and cake baking. It explains the use of a range of instructional…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Expository Writing
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Tutolo, Daniel J. – Journal of Reading, 1977
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Slater, Wayne H.; Graves, Michael F. – 1986
A study examined the effects of (1) providing students with instruction in a "discourse-structure" reading and writing strategy on college freshmen's recall and comprehension of history textbook passages; and (2) this procedure on the quality of students' expository writing. Subjects, 126 college freshmen, randomly assigned to one of…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Discourse Analysis, Expository Writing, Higher Education
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Pincus, Arlene R. H.; And Others – Journal of Reading, 1986
States that comprehension of expository text and the ability to summarize are factors in students' success with such material. Describes a model that induces students to use existing schemata to create new and necessary expectations while providing a technique for explicitly teaching the components of effective summaries. (JK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Expository Writing, Periodicals
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Bakken, Jeffrey P.; Whedon, Craig K. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2002
This article discusses how to teach children with mild disabilities to identify the five different types of expository text structures: main idea, list, order, compare/contrast, and classification. It then explains a strategy for each text structure type that can be taught to children to improve comprehension in content area classes. (Contains…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Learning Disabilities, Mild Disabilities
Young, Petey – 1980
Designed to be used along with a multiple-choice instrument for further assessment of the immediate and delayed comprehension of a 1,300 word expository passage on the Kalahari Desert, the instrument is a 35-item posttest, divided into five clusters, each composed of six to eight lettered phrases. Twenty verbatim phrases from the passage are…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Measures (Individuals)
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McLaughlin, Elaine M. – Reading Teacher, 1987
Provides a rationale for the reading/writing connection through a brief review of research and describes Questions into Paragraphs (QuIP), a three-step procedure designed to improve expository awareness. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Expository Writing, Learning Strategies, Questioning Techniques
Young, Petey – 1980
Designed to assess immediate and delayed comprehension of expository prose, this instrument is a 40-item multiple-choice test composed of open-ended stems, each followed by four nonoverlapping choices. Control of content of the items was based upon an analysis of the accompanying 1,300-word passage on the Kalahari Desert. Validity, reliability,…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Expository Writing, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Gaines, Lisa – 2003
Students will combine reading with descriptive writing in this lesson plan. Embedded in this project are skills, such as compiling, composing, defining, describing, illustrating, rewriting, and validating. During nine 30-minute sessions, students will: read and discuss "The Giver" by Lois Lowry in order to create meaning from the text; read short…
Descriptors: Biographies, English Instruction, Evaluation Methods, Expository Writing
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Piccolo, Jo Anne – Reading Teacher, 1987
Describes how expository text structure can be taught to students in fifth through ninth grades by using an adapted version of a process developed by McGee and Richgels. Contains daily lesson plans. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Learning Strategies, Reading Comprehension
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Bristor, Valerie J. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1993
This article suggests ways that teachers can use videotape recordings to improve listening skills and enhance text structure instruction in the intermediate grades. Students develop story maps for narrative videos and texts and create organizational pattern guides for expository videos and texts. Lists of suggested videos and children's books are…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Cognitive Mapping, Expository Writing, Intermediate Grades
Raphael, Taffy E.; And Others – 1986
In response to teachers' requests for specific information about implementing the curriculum in the Expository Writing Program (EWP), this manual presents the instructional methods and materials used during the Teaching Expository Reading and Writing Project. First, the lines of research that formed the basis for the instructional program are…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
Silliman, Elaine R., Ed.; Wilkinson, Louise C., Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2007
Accessible and user-friendly, this volume presents evidence-based practices for integrating language and literacy knowledge to enhance children's learning in today's standards-based classrooms. While grounded in theory and research, the book focuses on day-to-day concerns in instruction and intervention, identifying models for effective…
Descriptors: Intervention, Word Recognition, Reading Comprehension, Teacher Collaboration
Muth, K. Denise, Ed. – 1989
Reflecting the concerns of researchers and practitioners about children's text comprehension, this book defines and provides examples of narrative and expository text and describes research-based strategies for helping children comprehend these two types of text. The book contains the following chapters: (1) "Research on Stories: Implications…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Expository Writing, Models, Narration
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