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Fountas, Irene C.; Pinnell, Gay Su – Reading Teacher, 2013
The authors examine the growth and impact of guided reading, small group teaching for differentiated instruction in reading that was stimulated by their early publications. Many changes in literacy education have been observed as a result--almost as if educators had a "romance" with guided reading and leveled books. While changes have been…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Small Group Instruction, Individualized Instruction, Teaching Methods

McKeown, Margaret G.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1993
Describes an approach, called "Questioning the Author," that is targeted toward getting young readers to engage with their textbooks--to really consider ideas deeply. Notes that the approach attempts to actualize the presence of an author, understand the author as a fallible transmitter of ideas, and transform author's ideas into readers' ideas.…
Descriptors: Authors, Children, Class Activities, Intermediate Grades

Irwin, Judith Westphal – Reading Teacher, 1980
Points out that if relationships between sentences are made implicit (for the sake of simplicity or readability), comprehension may suffer and explains three teaching strategies for improving students' comprehension of implicit connectives. (RL)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Connected Discourse, Deep Structure, Elementary Secondary Education

Armbruster, Bonnie B.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1989
Explains the details of a method of teaching text structure that proved successful in improving both reading comprehension and summary writing of fifth graders. Reports that students quickly learned how to attend to and remember main ideas from problem-solution passages in their textbooks and how to write summaries. (MG)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Readability