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Archambeault, Betty – Journal of Reading, 1992
Offers suggestions for making students more aware of their own study styles and for helping them select appropriate strategies for various study tasks. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Strategies, Metacognition, Secondary Education

McAloon, Noreen M. – Journal of Reading, 1994
Describes a teaching approach which made connections among reading, writing, English, and world geography, and which encouraged students to transfer learning strategies from one subject to another. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Interdisciplinary Approach, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools

Pearson, Jenny Watson; Santa, Carol M. – Journal of Reading, 1995
Describes how a high school English teacher helped her students learn about background knowledge, organization, metacognition, discussion, and writing by experimentally investigating their own learning. Notes that this approach helped students feel more ownership in their work and in their own knowledge about learning. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Research, English Instruction, Learning Processes

Walker, Becky; And Others – Journal of Reading, 1987
Encourages use of the newspaper for adults to improve their reading skills and to practice applying academic skills to problem solving. (NKA)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Class Activities

Call, Patricia E. – Journal of Reading, 1991
Describes how two metacognitive/study strategies (SQ3R and What I Know Sheets) are combined to produce one effective, efficient strategy to enhance reading comprehension. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, English Teacher Education, Higher Education

Dansereau, Donald F. – Journal of Reading, 1987
Considers cooperative reading and study groups and suggests activities designed to enhance individual learning and study skills for such groups. (NKA)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cooperation, Group Activities, Independent Study