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A Technique for Teaching Students to Draw Inferences from Text.
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Poindexter, Candace A.; Prescott, Susan – Reading Teacher, 1986
Offers a metacognitive strategy for helping students answer inferential comprehension questions and a research-based rationale for its use. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Inferences, Metacognition
Progressive Cloze as a Remedial Technique.
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Riley, James D. – Reading Teacher, 1986
Presents a technique for remediating comprehension difficulties that is based on four principles of effective instruction that can be derived from comprehension research. (FL)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension
The What, Why, How, and When of Comprehension Instruction.
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Baumann, James F.; Schmitt, Maribeth Cassidy – Reading Teacher, 1986
Presents a direct instruction approach to reading comprehension that stresses the use of three forms of knowledge--declarative, procedural, and conditional. Offers a sample lesson demonstrating the application of this approach for teaching a comprehension skill, and concludes with a discussion of how comprehension skill instruction in commercial…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Materials
The Development of Spelling Ability and Linguistic Strategies.
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Anderson, Kristine F. – Reading Teacher, 1985
Argues that learning to spell is a developmental process and reviews research showing that errors made by poor spellers can indicate the point at which that development has broken down. Discusses some of the linguistic strategies students must acquire to become proficient spellers and offers teaching suggestions for helping students develop a…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages, Educational Research