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Content Area Reading. Proceedings of the Reading Center Conference (West Virginia University, 1979).
Fairbanks, Marilyn M., Ed.; And Others – 1979
This collection contains the 30 papers presented at the 1979 Reading Center Conference on content area reading held at West Virginia University. The papers are presented under the following topics: aiding reading/thinking skills, reading in specific content areas, motivating extended reading, meeting student needs, and administering content area…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Motivation Techniques, Program Administration, Reading Instruction
Dawson, Mildred, Ed. – 1967
This book reports the proceedings of the 1966 convention of the International Reading Association. It presents papers from that part of the convention concerned with the application of research results to classroom procedures and develops the following topics: elementary and secondary education, reading specialists, and the administrator's role in…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Conference Reports, Content Area Reading, Disadvantaged
McNinch, George H., Ed. – 1981
Papers delivered at the First American Reading Forum are collected in this yearbook. Focusing on the theme of comprehension, many of the essays respond to a preceding essay. The essays and reactions cover a variety of topics, including the following: (1) comprehension measures, (2) instructional strategies to promote comprehension, (3) current…
Descriptors: Adults, Content Area Reading, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Figurel, J. Allen, Ed. – 1962
This book contains the 72 papers presented and discussed at the 1962 International Reading Association conference. The book is divided into five parts: the keynote address, ("Challenge and Experiment in the Teaching of Reading"), 30 papers that expand the theme set by the keynote address, 21 research studies in reading fields, 10…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Content Area Reading, Instructional Materials, Multimedia Instruction
Download full textKetcham, Clay A., Ed. – 1964
The proceedings of the seventh annual meeting of the College Reading Association consisted of the following papers: (1) "President's Report" (Martha J. Maxwell); (2) "The Library Is Your Reading Test" (Nancy Larrick); (3) "The Lehigh--Bethlehem ITA Study Interim Report Four" (Albert J. Mazurkiewicz); (4) "The…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Programs, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading
Paired Reading Bulletin, 1989
The eight papers constituting the Proceedings of the fourth National Paired Reading Conference are published in an annual bulletin of the Paired Reading Project, together with seven papers constituting the Supplementary Proceedings of the Peer Tutoring Conference, and nine feature articles, as follows: (1) "Whole-School Policy on Parental…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Environment, Foreign Countries
Ketcham, Clay A., Ed. – 1968
The proceedings of the eleventh annual meeting of the College Reading Association with a theme of "Professional Focus on Reading," consisted of the following papers: (1) "President's Address" (W. H. Cooper); (2) "What Lies Ahead in Primary Reading?" (M. C. Austin); (3) "The Causes and Correction of Verbalism in…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Grade 1
Shick, George B., Ed.; May, Merrill M., Ed. – 1966
Focusing on new frontiers in college and adult reading, the papers in this volume were drawn from the fifteenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1965. Among the topics covered in the 26 papers are the following: reading in the Guatemalan environment, the use of instrumentation in reading, correlates of concentration, the…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Conference Reports, Content Area Reading
Enright, Gwyn, Ed. – 1978
The articles in this collection focus on learning assistance and other components of college reading instruction. The topics of the 35 articles include the following: (1) charting a realistic course for learning assistance, (2) modern measurement technology, (3) a national survey of learning assistance evaluation, (4) students' cognitive…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Content Area Reading, Developmental Programs, Higher Education
Schick, George B., Ed.; May, Merrill M., Ed. – 1968
Focusing on multidisciplinary aspects of college and adult reading, the 27 articles in this volume were drawn from the seventeenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1967. Among the topics discussed in the articles are the following: psychological embarrassments of reading, rapid reading, reading rate, tutoring in a college…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Conference Reports, Content Area Reading
Schick, George B., Ed.; May, Merrill M., Ed. – 1970
This is the second of two volumes containing papers focusing on reading processes and pedagogy that were drawn from the nineteenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1969. Among the topics covered in the 37 papers are the following: interpersonal dynamics in counseling students with learning problems, developing an effective…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Content Area Reading, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Jewett, Arno – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1957
The purpose of this bulletin is to help teachers, supervisors, administrators, and other educators improve the quality of reading done by junior high school pupils. Interest in ways to teach developmental and remedial reading in the junior high school is nationwide. Junior high school principals and teachers of various subjects are particularly…
Descriptors: Remedial Programs, Reading Programs, Reading Improvement, Standardized Tests
Douglass, Malcolm P., Ed. – 1985
The papers included in this book focus on writing and reading across the curriculum. Beginning with an introduction by Malcolm P. Douglass, the book contains the following 25 titles: "Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum" (Malcolm P. Douglass); "A Deepening Understanding of Reading and Writing" (Walter Loban); "The…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Computer Assisted Instruction, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing
Enright, Gwyn, Ed. – 1977
Drawn from papers accepted for presentation at a conference focusing on personalizing college-level learning skills programs, the 35 articles in this collection are arranged into five categories: investigations, program descriptions, program prescriptions, applications, and reactions and interactions. Specific topics discussed in the articles…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Content Area Reading, Developmental Programs, Higher Education
Fleming, Delryn R., Ed. – 1983
Drawn from a conference that focused on the present state and future direction of college reading and learning skills instruction, the articles in this collection are arranged into three categories: reviews, investigations and evaluations, and prescriptions and descriptions. Among the topics discussed in the 19 articles are the following: (1) the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cognitive Processes, Computer Software, Content Area Reading
