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McNabb, Mary – Educational Leadership, 2006
Because students are highly motivated to read texts online rather than in traditional form, McNabb argues, schools should encourage students to use the Internet for academic and pleasure reading. However, hypertext has unique features that make comprehension monitoring while reading challenging. Strategies that work for reading passages of printed…
Descriptors: Hypermedia, Internet, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies
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Smith, Richard J. – Social Studies, 1987
Proposes that, in addition to demanding literal comprehension of reading materials, study guides should contain questions that require the type of critical reading that promotes interactive, constructive, and dynamic cognitive behaviors. Provides a sample of a general study guide that would promote these reading behaviors. (AEM)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Reading Assignments, Reading Comprehension
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Renner, Dennis K. – Clearing House, 1980
The author makes a case for replacing the traditional English term paper with short repeatable research assignments as a better way of developing students' reading comprehension and self-management skills in the writing process. He appends a sequential task outline for the stages of a research assignment. (SJL)
Descriptors: Assignments, Course Organization, English Instruction, High Schools
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Winzenz, Marilyn; Winzenz, David – Reading Horizons, 1988
Suggests individualized reading as a solution to the problem of varied interests and ability levels in large introductory college courses. Details how directed individualized reading followed by oral reports presented to the professor was used successfully in an introductory psychology course. (ARH)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Higher Education, Individualized Reading, Psychology
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Kauffmann, Ruth A. – Foreign Language Annals, 1996
Discusses the use of writing assignments to improve the capacity of literature students to read and analyze assigned texts in the foreign language. The approach provides a higher level of motivation for self-correction that will enable students to overcome, rather than formalize, their errors. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Essays, Higher Education, Literature, Reading Comprehension
Young, Lyn – 1993
Noting that a small portion of older emergent readers are usually found in all primary classes, this pamphlet discusses how teachers can help students with reading difficulties see how to fit together the snippets of literacy-related information they may have already acquired. After a brief introduction, the pamphlet suggests that children learn…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries, Primary Education
Ediger, Marlow – 1998
A basic concept in reading content in the social studies is for pupils to experience adequate background information. A pupil cannot read and understand new subject matter unless prerequisites have been met. For early primary grade pupils, the Big Book concept may be used, wherein the teacher discusses the illustration in the book pertaining to…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Learning Activities
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Paribakht, T. Sima; Wesche, Marjorie – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1996
Presents a classification scheme for reading-related exercises advocated in English-as-a-Foreign-Language textbooks. The scheme proposes a hierarchy of the degree and type of mental processing required by various vocabulary exercises. The categories of classification are selective attention, recognition, manipulation, interpretation and…
Descriptors: Classification, College Students, English (Second Language), Pilot Projects