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Peer reviewedBreen, Leonard – Journal of Reading, 1989
Provides questions that help students focus on the significant differences between words when studying synonyms. (MM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Peer reviewedJournal of Reading, 1984
Contributors describe two classroom activities for secondary school reading students: a study-reading technique and a vocabulary game. (AEA)
Descriptors: Educational Games, Reading Skills, Remedial Reading, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedWarner, Timothy P. – Journal of Reading, 1972
Descriptors: Etymology, Reading Instruction, Story Telling, Structural Analysis
Peer reviewedPowell, William R. – Journal of Reading, 1986
Explains how antonymy (opposition) can offer another approach to vocabulary development in a classroom situation. (HOD)
Descriptors: Definitions, Learning Strategies, Reading Instruction, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedD'Angelo, Karen – Journal of Reading, 1983
Discusses the benefits of precis writing and suggests specific tasks to develop that skill. (AEA)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reading Comprehension, Study Skills, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedCunningham, Patricia M. – Journal of Reading, 1987
Discusses teaching vocabulary when students do not know the words nor the concepts they represent. (SRT)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Language Usage
Peer reviewedFrager, Alan M. – Journal of Reading, 1984
Describes a teaching strategy that can develop the student's cognitive ability for learning the labels for new thoughts, ideas, and concepts and a teaching strategy that promotes the learning more through modeling the teacher's interest in words. (HOD)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Reading Instruction, Secondary Education, Teacher Role
Peer reviewedGraves, Michael F.; Prenn, Maureen C. – Journal of Reading, 1986
Specifies some of the different word learning tasks students face, describes different levels of word knowledge, notes three types of costs involved in instruction, and discusses the costs and benefits of some specific methods of vocabulary instruction. (HOD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Cost Effectiveness, Learning Strategies
Peer reviewedJournal of Reading, 1985
Describes a reading technique for college writing and a method of teaching word structue. (HOD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedCarr, Eileen M. – Journal of Reading, 1985
Describes a metacognitive approach to improving vocabulary. The method trains students to establish a network of relationships among words and relate the words to personal experiences. (HOD)
Descriptors: Metacognition, Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies
Peer reviewedAhrendt, Kenneth M.; Haselton, Shirley S. – Journal of Reading, 1973
Descriptors: Bookkeeping, Concept Formation, Context Clues, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedKling, Martin – Journal of Reading, 1972
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Disadvantaged, Individualized Instruction, Library Skills
Peer reviewedStine, Doris E. – Journal of Reading, 1971
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Educational Testing, Grade 10, Motivation Techniques
Peer reviewedGoldfield, Ben – Journal of Reading, 1973
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs, Reading Skills
Peer reviewedJournal of Reading, 1980
Contributors propose five ways for students to improve their reading: combining television newscasts and note taking, determining the main ideas of pictures, using multicultural materials, developing vocabulary through color word contests, and finishing reading what a teacher has started. Also discussed is informal research indicating that…
Descriptors: Color, Elementary Secondary Education, Multicultural Education, Pictorial Stimuli
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