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Making Connections: Alternatives to the Vocabulary Notebook.

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Blachowicz, Camille L. Z. – Journal of Reading, 1986

Describes six strategies for teaching vocabulary: exclusion brainstorming, knowledge rating, connect two, semantic feature analysis and semantic gradients, concept ladder, and predict-o-gram. (HOD)

Descriptors: Concept Formation, Content Area Reading, Knowledge Level, Learning Strategies

Using Prediction to Increase Content Area Interest and Understanding.

Peer reviewed

Nichols, James N. – Journal of Reading, 1983

Illustrates how prediction can be used to improve content area reading, provides examples of successful prediction techniques, and encourages teachers to develop their own uses of prediction. (FL)

Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Prediction