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Kossack, Sharon – Journal of Reading, 1986
Provides activities for teaching the skill of comparison using various parts of newspapers. (SRT)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Integrated Activities, Newspapers, Teaching Methods
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Mosenthal, Peter B.; Kirsch, Irwin S. – Journal of Reading, 1990
Provides an understanding of thematic maps and how they might be used to teach hypothesis testing. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Map Skills, Maps, Secondary Education
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Kirsch, Irwin S.; Mosenthal, Peter B. – Journal of Reading, 1990
Discusses a document structure called "nested lists" which allows an increased amount of information to be presented in a fixed amount of space while also maintaining its usability. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Kirsch, Irwin S.; Mosenthal, Peter B. – Journal of Reading, 1989
Describes class activities designed to teach inference skill using combined lists. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Inferences
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Mosenthal, Peter B.; Kirsch, Irwin S. – Journal of Reading, 1991
Describes how the 16 permanent lists used by a first grade reading teacher (and mother of 6) to manage the household represents the whole range of documents covered in the 3 major types of documents: matrix documents, graphic documents, and locative documents. Suggests class activities to clarify students' understanding of the information in…
Descriptors: Charts, Class Activities, Graphs, Reading Instruction
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Glasgow, Jacqueline N. – Journal of Reading, 1994
Discusses teaching visual literacy by teaching students how to decode advertising images, thus enabling them to move away from being passive receivers of messages to active unravelers. Shows how teachers can use concepts from semiotics to deconstruct advertising messages. (SR)
Descriptors: Advertising, Class Activities, Secondary Education, Semiotics
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Mosenthal, Peter B.; Kirsch, Irwin S. – Journal of Reading, 1990
Discusses ways to use bar charts and line graphs to present comparative information in a flexible manner. Includes activities designed to review how the different characteristics of charts and graphs relate to different document structures. (RS)
Descriptors: Charts, Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Graphs
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Journal of Reading, 1990
Presents three simple exercises (involving analogies, word relationships, and closed sorts) designed to reinforce vocabulary and concepts from content area textbooks. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Secondary Education, Teaching Methods
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Mosenthal, Peter B.; Kirsch, Irwin S. – Journal of Reading, 1990
Argues that graphs and charts are cases of document structures introduced in previous columns: combined lists, intersecting lists, and nested lists. Explores pie charts and various aspects of bar charts as they relate to other document structures presented in this series. (RS)
Descriptors: Charts, Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Graphs
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Hayes, David A. – Journal of Reading, 1992
Describes Make-a-Place (MAP), a creative activity for developing map literacy in which students imagine a hypothetical place and draw a map of it. (PRA)
Descriptors: Cartography, Class Activities, Literacy, Maps
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Southard, Bruce; Muller, Al – Journal of Reading, 1993
Offers a language-centered approach to the teaching of Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" which can help students read the dialects in the novel and develop an appreciation for the varieties of language. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Dialects, Language Usage, Literature Appreciation
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Earle, Richard A.; Morley, Richard – Journal of Reading, 1974
Describes a step-by-step process for opening up the classroom to students in a way that will allow for both freedom and responsibility in reading instruction. (RB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Language Arts, Open Education, Reading Instruction
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Fraim, Emma Carville – Journal of Reading, 1973
Presents ideas for book reports so students can read for enjoyment and critical thinking. (RB)
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Class Activities, Critical Thinking, Elementary Education
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Mosenthal, Peter B.; Kirsch, Irwin S. – Journal of Reading, 1989
Features television program listings as an example of a document structure called "intersecting lists." Illustrates how intersecting lists provide a more efficient means for representing certain types of information than either prose or combined lists. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Programing (Broadcast), Reading Instruction
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Cioffi, Grant – Journal of Reading, 1992
Advocates a strategy for developing students' ability to think critically by involving them in tasks with perceived conflicts and discrepancies, starting with ads for common products and moving on to news reports and variants of literature. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Reading Instruction
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