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The Role of Textbooks in Teachers' Interactive Decision Making.

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Alvermann, Donna E. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1987

Examines teachers' decisions to make adjustments in their preplanned discussion routines to better facilitate students' comprehension of previously assigned content area materials in terms of how texts figured into those decisions. (FL)

Descriptors: Content Analysis, Content Area Reading, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education

The Effect of Interspersing Questions in Text: Evidence for "Slicing the Task."

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Wood, Karen D. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1986

Shows that "Slicing the task"--reducing the amount of print a student has to read at a given time by inserting questions into the text--may be effective with good readers but not for poor readers. (FL)

Descriptors: Content Analysis, Grade 7, Questioning Techniques, Reader Text Relationship