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Peer reviewedWatson, Dorothy – Language Arts, 1997
Challenges the concept of decodable texts with a review of contemporary children's books that support reader's learning with predictable features. Notes and/or discusses 38 children's books in relation to Kenneth Goodman's model of reading: predictable books as support for readers; text, lives, and other literature as support for inferencing and…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedMartens, Prisca – Primary Voices K-6, 1995
Reflects on how miscue analysis empowers teachers and empowers students. Discusses how it changes teachers' understanding of readers who are experiencing difficulty. Discusses Retrospective Miscue Analysis, which involves students in analyzing their own miscues. Offers teachers advice for getting started in miscue analysis, and appends a 38-item…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Miscue Analysis, Reading Instruction
Winkeljohann, Rosemary – INSIGHTS into Open Education, 1979
The focus article in this newsletter contains a discussion of the theory of reading as a thinking process and offers practical suggestions for implementing instruction in teaching reading as a thinking process. The section on theory is based on observations of the reading process as perceived by psycholinguists such as Frank Smith and Kenneth…
Descriptors: Authors, Bibliographies, Books, Child Language
Peer reviewedSwafford, Jeanne – Reading Teacher, 1991
Annotates and reviews five professional resources concerning the comprehension processes of reading and mathematics and recommends several ideas for classroom practice. (MG)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Book Reviews, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedAihara, Kathleen; Au, Kathryn; Carroll, Jacquelin; Nakanishi, Patricia; Scheu, Judith; Wong-Kam, Jo Ann – Reading Teacher, 1999
Describes and discusses six recent books for teachers that illuminate, from different perspectives, aspects of the reading-writing connection for struggling readers, and how to teach reading and writing effectively. (SR)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Junior High Schools, Reading Instruction, Reading Processes
Gunn, Cathy – Writing Notebook, 1990
Annotates (1) 28 professional books which deal with the whole language approach in the area of reading and writing; and (2) eight books to use as computer-related resources. (MG)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education, Holistic Approach
Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1983
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 26 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) individual differences in the use of comprehension strategies; (2) field dependence-independence and text comprehension; (3) automaticity of word…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Development, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1985
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 5 titles deal with the following topics: (1) the influence of background knowledge on non-native students' memory for reading passages, (2) the development of a reading textbook with a teacher's manual for English as a second…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Biculturalism, Bidialectalism, Bilingualism
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1981
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 26 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) a structured and an unstructured approach to kindergarten instruction and their effects on reading readiness for the first grade; (2) effects of exposure to…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Doctoral Dissertations
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1980
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 53 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) instructional procedures for teaching word meanings; (2) readability; (3) reading acquisition; (4) the relation of word deprivation to reading in elementary…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 23 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: relationships among attitudes, intelligence, and reading achievement; the purposes and processes of reading as described by elementary school children; evaluating…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1983
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 19 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) children's approaches to reading tasks; (2) methods of teaching word recognition to aphasic/severely language disordered students; (3) intentional forgetting…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Cloze Procedure, Compensatory Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1980
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 40 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the effects of oral reading of literature by teachers on reading attitudes of fourth grade students; (2) two instructional programs for teaching first grade…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Basal Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education
