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Download full textLook, Sharon 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: Instructional Innovation, Instructional Improvement, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods
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: Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Improvement, Instructional Innovation, Faculty Development
Duffelmeyer, Frederick A.; Baum, Dale D. – Academic Therapy, 1987
Application of the direct instruction paradigm to reading comprehension skills involves providing a problem-solving strategy through demonstration and modeling, guiding strategy application, and creating opportunities for independent strategy application. Examples of the approach to teach sequential relationships and main idea-supporting…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
Peer reviewedSanacore, Joseph – Educational Leadership, 1985
Six mistaken beliefs about reading comprehension are detailed, their manifestations illustrated, and preventative/corrective strategies recommended in this article. A list of 22 references is provided. (DCS)
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies, Reading Comprehension
Torgesen, Joseph K.; And Others – Learning Disabilities Focus, 1987
Three studies evaluated the effectiveness of using verbatim text recordings to increase learning disabled high school students' reading comprehension and learning ability. Use of the recordings did produce performance gains, especially when used in conjunction with completion of a related worksheet. (DB)
Descriptors: High Schools, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedPerez, Samuel A. – Clearing House, 1986
Uses the Socratic method as a point of departure and suggests steps that teachers can take to teach students how to formulate their own questions for better comprehension ability. (JK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies, Questioning Techniques
D'Antoni, Alice; And Others – 1984
The paper presents four learning strategy techniques--the SQ3R method of study, the Multipass Strategy, the Advanced Study Guide Technique, and Cognitive Mapping--for use with secondary level learning disabled students. The SQ3R method involves the five steps of survey, question, read, recite, and review. An adaption of the SQ3R method, the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies, Reading Comprehension
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 reviewedPeters, Ellen, Ed.; Dixon, Robert – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1987
Research based suggestions are presented for effective vocabulary instruction strategies, including: learning new labels; learning concepts; and learning to learn meanings. Regardless of the method chosen, it is crucial that students: demonstrate generalization abilities; be given time to learn new material; periodically review what they learn;…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Disabilities, Elementary Education, Learning Strategies
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
Oregon State Dept. of Education, Salem. – 1989
Stressing that building vocabulary knowledge is a continuously developing skill, acquired over a lifetime and in a variety of ways, this concept paper suggests instructional strategies that lead to word knowledge. Following a research summary and a section on implications for instructions, the paper focuses on the various instructional strategies…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies, Models, Reading Comprehension
Smith, Gayle; Bos, Candace S. – Learning Disabilities Focus, 1987
Two articles look at effective practices with the learning disabled. The first, "Facilitating Mainstreaming through a School-Wide Study Skills Program" (Gayle Smith), stresses one skill each month. "Semantic Feature Analysis: An Interactive Teaching Strategy for Facilitating Learning from Text" (Candace Bos and Patricia Anders) offers a method for…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
Berrent, Howard I. – Academic Therapy, 1988
Five modified cloze procedures useful in intermediate-level reading-comprehension instruction are described. They include exercises where clues to the missing word come before the blank, clues come after the blank, clues are labels for groups of ideas, clues are pronouns, and clues signal readers to look for something important. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Intermediate Grades, Learning Strategies
Peer reviewedCamperell, Kay; Smith, Lawrence L. – Reading Horizons, 1985
Suggests that one way reading teachers can begin to familiarize themselves with content area texts is to create network diagrams or maps of the information. (HOD)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Learning Strategies, Notetaking, Reading Comprehension
