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Clary, Linda Mixon – Reading Horizons, 1981
Presents ways a classroom teacher can welcome new students to class, properly place them for instruction, and make them feel at home in a new group. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Tests, Student Mobility

Gordon, Belita – Journal of Reading, 1982
Suggests techniques for teaching students to comprehend test questions in a manner that requires them to think about both what is in the question and what could be in the passage. (HOD)
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Teaching Methods
Hedges, William; Turner, Edward – Computers, Reading and Language Arts, 1983
Explains how a microcomputer can save a classroom reading teacher's time by producing, administering, and scoring cloze tests. (AEA)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Computer Managed Instruction, Computers, Elementary Education

Johns, Jerry L. – Reading Horizons, 1979
Suggests that teacher observations form a valid and integral part of student assessment and that, in addition to standardized tests and informal tests, this "inner-ocular technique" is an important means for assessing the effectiveness of reading instruction. (MKM)
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Instruction
Johns, Jerry L.; Lenski, Susan Davis; Elish-Piper, Laurie – 1999
The purpose of this book is to assist teachers as they work with emergent readers and writers--children who are in the early stages of reading and writing development, typically in preschool through grade 2. Section 1 of the book presents an overview of emergent literacy. Section 2 consists of a group of 15 informal early literacy pretests. The…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy, Evaluation Methods, Reading Instruction

Marino, Jacqueline L. – Journal of Reading, 1981
Suggests five criteria for teachers to keep in mind when choosing passages for the cloze procedure. (MKM)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Critical Thinking, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education

Stewart, Oran; Green, Dan S. – Reading Teacher, 1983
Discusses test-taking skills and their application to tests of reading achievement. Presents a rationale for teaching these skills, lists a comprehensive set of skills relevant to standardized reading tests, and offers suggestions for teaching the skills and helping children use them. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Reading Tests

Blair, Susan M.; And Others – Journal of Reading, 1980
Consists of practical classroom techniques. Topics covered are: (1) reading/studies skills techniques for college freshmen, (2) teaching main ideas, (3) a team approach to content area reading, (4) readers theatre, (5) survival skills, (6) passage dependence tests, (7) leisure reading, and (8) using music in informal diagnosis and motivation. (MKM)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Functional Reading, Higher Education
Morris, Darrell – 1986
In accordance with current recommendations concerning teaching reading to kindergarten children, this paper presents a kindergarten reading curriculum. Included are a description of major instructional techniques, a time-line illustrating how instruction might evolve across the school year, and finally, a battery of informal tasks for assessing…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Kindergarten, Language Experience Approach
Wong, Bernice Y. L. – Canadian Journal for Exceptional Children, 1986
Successful instructional strategies for enhancing the reading comprehension and comprehension test performance of learning disabled students are described. Students are taught to self-monitor their comprehension of expository materials and stories through recognition and analysis of recurrent elements and problem passages, content summarization,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Inquiry, Learning Disabilities, Questioning Techniques
Groff, Charlotte – 1983
Alternatives to traditional testing techniques are proposed for use in the adult English as a second language classroom. It is argued that traditional testing does not place responsibility for achievement on the learner as is appropriate with adult students. The suggested alternative methods are: the language experience approach, sustained silent…
Descriptors: Adults, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods, Language Experience Approach
Sirois, Herman A.; Davis, Robert L. – 1983
Noting that traditional measures of textbook difficulty and traditional measures of student reading ability suffer from a lack of correspondence, this booklet deals with the problems of (1) identifying the levels of conceptual difficulty of text materials, (2) identifying students' abilities to understand text materials, (3) matching the…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Readability
Treece, Nelson L. – 1989
This literature review examines use of the cloze procedure for assessing reading and language competence and for planning individualized reading curricula. The first half of the paper describes studies performed with non-hearing-impaired students, discussing validation of the cloze procedure, establishment of criterion test scores, and the…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Curriculum Design, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education

McWilliams, Lana; Rakes, Thomas A. – Science and Children, 1980
Two techniques classroom teachers can use to screen students' ability to read and understand their text are described. The Cloze Placement Inventory and Group Reading Inventory are recommended for testing groups of students in various subjects in grades four through college. (Author/DS)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Testing

Foster, Stephen J. – French Review, 1979
Describes a course designed to teach reading proficiency in French to non-majors in graduate programs. The method is based on the reading and translation of articles in the student's field of interest. (AM)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Foreign Language Periodicals, French, Graduate Study
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