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Shepherd, James W.; Dickerson, Frances E. – Journal of Reading, 1977
The Fry Graph for Estimating Readability can be used to provide students with feedback concerning the complexity of their writing. (KS)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Readability, Secondary Education, Student Motivation
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O'Brien, Donald; Schwarzberg, Sheila – Journal of Reading, 1977
Describes ways to use reading, reaction, and vocabulary extension guides to help maintain students' interest in poetry. (KS)
Descriptors: Literary Criticism, Poetry, Secondary Education, Student Motivation
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Noland, Ronald G.; Craft, Lynda H. – Journal of Reading, 1976
Descriptors: Motivation Techniques, Reading Difficulty, Reading Instruction, Secondary Education
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Criscuolo, Nicholas P. – Journal of Reading, 1977
Presents twelve activities designed to convince the student that reading can be fun and not boring. (JM)
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Reading Instruction, Recreational Reading, Secondary Education
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Pell, Sarah-Warner J. – Journal of Reading, 1977
Suggests that Isaac Asimov's science fiction is a legitimate teaching device; it is easy to read and of high interest to students. (JM)
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Science Fiction, Secondary Education, Student Interests
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Sandock, Frank – Journal of Reading, 1994
Offers suggestions for writing and performing original plays with secondary students. Argues that classroom plays increase student motivation, improve reading skills, and build character. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Drama, Dramatics, Playwriting
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Balajthy, Ernest – Journal of Reading, 1984
Suggests a variety of self-questioning techniques that students can use to improve their attention to and retention of expository material. (AEA)
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Secondary Education
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Frager, Alan M. – Journal of Reading, 1993
Looks at affective aspects in different stages of the reading process to find causes and solutions to the problem of students who do not read content area materials effectively. Offers teaching strategies combining affective and cognitive elements of instruction to motivate students to read content area textbooks with awareness. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Processes
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Goldstein, Bobbye S. – Journal of Reading, 1986
Considers the use of cartoons for vocabulary development. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cartoons, Comics (Publications), Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities
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Schlessinger, June H. – Journal of Reading, 1984
Describes an outside reading and oral book reporting method that counts for as much as 40 percent of the entire course grade which, by being mandatory, motivates the students to read. (HOD)
Descriptors: Independent Reading, Reading Habits, Reading Instruction, Recreational Reading
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Mathison, Carla – Journal of Reading, 1989
Argues that the focus of content area instruction needs to include an emphasis on factors that motivate students to read their textbooks. Presents five strategies to link reader and text: using analogies; relating personal anecdotes; disrupting readers' expectations; challenging readers to resolve a paradox; and introducing novel and conflicting…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Content Area Reading, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Strategies
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Journal of Reading, 1990
Discusses the teacher's role, teaching strategies, and the use of newspapers when working with at-risk learners. Presents four techniques (involving three to five minutes of structured thinking about a topic) that help motivate at-risk learners and focus their thinking. (RS)
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Learning Activities, Newspapers, Reading Instruction
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Haimowitz, Benjamin – Journal of Reading, 1977
Discusses the techniques used in motivating students in an innercity junior high school to read for pleasure. (JM)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Inner City, Junior High Schools, Reading Instruction
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Ollmann, Hilda E. – Journal of Reading, 1992
Describes how a middle school teacher used team teaching and modeling to help a student teacher learn how to teach. (PRA)
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Middle Schools, Modeling (Psychology), Student Motivation
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McIntyre, Virgie M. – Journal of Reading, 1977
Describes the use of survival learning materials to teach reluctant readers and presents a sample survival kit on the topic of cars. (MKM)
Descriptors: Learning Modules, Reading Instruction, Reading Interests, Reading Materials
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