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Johan van Driel; Jannet van Driel; Carla van Boxtel – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Historians often present their interpretation of the past in written accounts. In order to gain deeper knowledge of the discipline of history, students must learn how to read and write historical accounts. In this experimental pretest--posttest study, we investigated the impact of a domain-specific reading instruction followed by domain-specific…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Writing Instruction, History Instruction, Reading Instruction
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Alger, Christianna – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2009
Using interviews and 10 weeks of consecutive lesson plans with supporting documentation, the author analyzes four first-year teachers' assigned in-class and out-of-class reading assignments and their choices and uses of reading strategies they learned in their preservice program. (Contains 2 tables.)
Descriptors: Reading Assignments, Content Area Reading, Reading Strategies, Interviews
Graham, Steve; Perin, Dolores – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2007
This report offers a number of specific teaching techniques that research suggests will help 4th- to 12th-grade students in this nation's schools. The report focuses on all students, not just those who display writing difficulties, although this latter group is deservedly the focus of much attention. The premise of this report is that all students…
Descriptors: Transformational Generative Grammar, Writing Assignments, Writing Difficulties, Sentences