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Textual Problems and Instructional Solutions: Strategies for Enhancing Learning from Published History Textbooks.
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Harniss, Mark K.; Dickson, Shirley V.; Kinder, Diane; Hollenbeck, Keith L. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2001
Notes that teachers and students with and without disabilities often struggle to use history textbooks effectively. Explores current concerns (e.g. text structure, readability) regarding history textbooks and provides recommendations for modifying instruction to improve students' acquisition of history knowledge. Reports adaptations in content and…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Educational Strategies, History Textbooks, Instructional Effectiveness
Teaching Text Structure to Improve Reading and Writing.
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Armbruster, Bonnie B.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1989
Explains the details of a method of teaching text structure that proved successful in improving both reading comprehension and summary writing of fifth graders. Reports that students quickly learned how to attend to and remember main ideas from problem-solution passages in their textbooks and how to write summaries. (MG)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Readability
Assessing Reading. Using Cloze Procedure To Assess Reading Skills. [Packet] and Handbook.
Vaughan, Judy – 1984
These instructor's materials consist of a handbook directed to the teacher and 33 worksheets teachers can use with adult students in order to use the cloze procedure to assess how readily they can read materials of differing complexity. The handbook introduces the materials by considering such questions as What is meant by reading?, How could…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Cloze Procedure