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Download full textNicholson, Tom – 1979
This report discusses techniques for analyzing children's responses to questions about stories as a means of improving reading comprehension. Various sections of the report discuss what knowledge it takes for a child to answer a question; types of questions that can be asked, including explicit, those requiring prior knowledge, and implicit; how…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Questioning Techniques, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
Owoc, Paul, Ed. – Reporting on Reading, 1979
Focusing on some of the techniques classroom teachers are using to help students with reading comprehension, this report also highlights some of the research dealing with that area. The various articles in the report contain the following: a discussion of ways to teach inferential and critical reading skills; a discussion of "Research within…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Research
Smith, Carl B. – Making Connections, 1990
This article examines the conditions that will help teachers improve the reading comprehension of learning disabled students: (1) allow more time; (2) build a framework for comprehension; (3) intervene in the process; (4) engage the learner; (5) match student and material; and (6) expect students to succeed. Two figures are included. (RS)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, High Risk Students, Intervention, Learning Activities
Smeyers, Paul, Ed.; And Others – Pedagogisch Tijdschrift, 1994
This 6-issue, complete year of a Belgian-Dutch collaboration offers complete articles on pedagogical subjects, some with an English-language summary; reviews of new Dutch-language books; and titles from related Dutch-language journals. Articles include: "On the Policies of the Journal of Pedagogy" (P. Smeyers); "Pedagogic…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy
Vaughan, Joseph L., Jr., Ed.; Anders, Patricia L., Ed. – 1979
This monograph is the fourth in a series of semiannual reports of research related to reading in secondary schools. The five papers in the monograph are concerned with the pedagogical and research implications of reading comprehension. Specific topics dealt with include (1) a phenomenological perspective on the reading process, (2) the role of…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Learning Theories, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
Butler, Andrea – Primary English Notes (P.E.N.), 1984
Designed for use by elementary school teachers, this newsletter issue contains activities to help children acquire reading skills while handling various types of reading materials. Following a description of the shared book experience, an approach to teaching reading that incorporates modelling, recreational reading, and instructional reading, the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Education, Language Skills, Learning Activities
Weinstein, Claire E.; Mayer, Richard E. – Innovation Abstracts, 1983
Learning strategies can be defined as behaviors and thoughts in which a learner engages and which are intended to influence the learner's encoding process. Thus, the goal of any particular learning strategy may be to affect the way in which the learner selects, acquires, organizes, or integrates new knowledge. Good teaching includes teaching…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Reading, Educational Environment, Educational Objectives
Digby, Sherry – Insights into Open Education, 1982
The two terms reading problems and learning disabilities are not synonymous. Nevertheless, an increasing number of children who have reading problems are being labeled as learning disabled. Given the growing numbers of children failing to become competent readers, the fact that more and more of these children are being identified and treated as…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Psycholinguistics, Reading Aloud to Others
Anderson, Philip M., Ed. – The Leaflet, 1984
The seven articles in this issue are concerned with the various uses of literature and literature study in the English curriculum, specifically to enhance thinking, teach composition, educate the emotions, develop reading comprehension and critical reading skills, explore and develop morals, and evoke a common culture. The titles of the articles…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, English Curriculum, English Instruction, Ethical Instruction
Ministry of Education and Culture, Jerusalem (Israel). English Inspectorate. – 1979
This issue of a journal devoted to teaching English as a second language, with emphasis on Israeli public schools, contains the following articles: (1) "The Analysis of Pupils' Errors," (2) "Subject/Predicate Word Order in English," (3) "Some Lesson Plans for Grade 4," (4) "Re-Thinking English in Grade 5,"…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged, Drama, Elementary Secondary Education
PRISE Reporter, 1987
Recent research and program development in the areas of metacognition and related teaching and learning strategies is the subject of this issue of the newsletter. The lead article reviews reasons for the current interest in cognition and metacognition, clarifies the concepts of cognitive and metacognitive strategy instruction, and describes key…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials
Lectura y Vida: Revista Latinoamericana de Lectura, 1997
The four issues of this journal, written entirely in Spanish, are intended for reading teachers. The first issue focuses on the role of school in the development of readers and writers and contains articles discussing the results of an investigation into the validity of the idea of "level" when measuring students' comprehension of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Reading Comprehension
ABE NetNews, 2001
These four newsletters focus on issues related to adult basic education and the challenges faced when teaching adult learners. The first issue looks at the characteristics of learning disabilities, providing information to help teachers determine whether a learner has a learning disability and who might be appropriately referred for testing. The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills
Pinette, Clayton, Ed.; Smith, Kent, Ed. – Forum for Reading, 1979
Issued twice yearly, this journal focuses on materials of interest to teachers of reading at the college level. The five articles in this issue deal with the following topics: basic skills instruction, judging the success of college reading programs, the effect of copying or paraphrasing structurally-cued topic sentences on passage comprehension,…
Descriptors: College Programs, College Students, Higher Education, Program Evaluation
Pavlik, Robert A. – 1979
Noting that the terms "language of mathematics,""language of science," and "language of business" represent very real language differences which frustrate even good readers, this curriculum report suggests several procedures teachers might use to assist students in reading in varied content areas. The procedures include teaching students to…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Content Analysis, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading
