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Peer reviewedJitendra, Asha K.; Nolet, Victor; Xin, Yan Ping; Gomez, Ophelia; Renouf, Kristin; Iskold, Lubov; DaCosta, Janice – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2001
Evaluates four middle school geography textbooks to examine readability levels, knowledge forms, intellectual operations, instructional objectives, and activities associated with before-, during-, and after-phases of instruction. Finds the texts to be generally inconsiderate of poor readers and to be dense with factual information. Discusses…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Geography, Instructional Improvement, Learning Problems
Peer reviewedDole, Janice A. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2000
Examines reader and text variables related to conceptual change learning from science textbooks. Shows it is difficult to change readers' prior knowledge by reading texts that are inconsistent with that knowledge, but refutation text was shown to impact students' prior knowledge when that knowledge contained naive scientific conceptions. Addresses…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Misconceptions, Prior Learning, Reader Text Relationship
Peer reviewedJitendra, Asha K.; Chard, David; Hoppes, Mary K.; Renouf, Kristin; Gardill, M. Cathleen – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2001
Evaluates four commercial reading programs at the second, fourth, and sixth grade levels with respect to main idea instructional practices and readability of text. Evaluates the type of main idea tasks and main idea statements, as well as placement of explicit main idea statements in the text. Discusses implications for practitioners meeting…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Educational Strategies, Elementary Education, Grade 2
