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| Reading World | 75 |
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| Journal Articles | 41 |
| Guides - Classroom - Teacher | 21 |
| Information Analyses | 14 |
| Reports - Research | 12 |
| Opinion Papers | 7 |
| Guides - Non-Classroom | 1 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
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| Practitioners | 16 |
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Peer reviewedGarzone, Tullio – Reading World, 1974
Discusses four methods of teaching reading to beginning readers and suggests where research can provide improvements in reading instruction. (RB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Primary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedWilson, Robert M. – Reading World, 1975
Describes a five-step task analysis approach used in a clinic to teach reading. (RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Centers, Reading Comprehension, Reading Diagnosis
Peer reviewedGordon, Marshall; Abrams, Jules C. – Reading World, 1973
Descriptors: Adolescents, Delinquency, Illiteracy, Reading Failure
Peer reviewedHenderson, Linda C.; Shanker, James L. – Reading World, 1978
Discusses a study that compared the use of interpretive dramatics activities to basal reader workbooks for developing the comprehension skills of recognition and recall of details, sequencing of events, and generalizing the main idea. (JM)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Creative Dramatics, Grade 2
Peer reviewedNewman, Harold – Reading World, 1971
Contains a list of 217 references, mostly texts, and a topical guide of 15 major areas in reading education for use in a variety of ways by students, professors, and librarians. (VJ)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Bibliographies, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedKleederman, Frances F. – Reading World, 1976
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Higher Education, Linguistic Theory, Reading Achievement
Peer reviewedColvin, Charles R. – Reading World, 1972
Descriptors: College Programs, Films, Lecture Method, Programed Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedTaylor, Barbara; And Others – Reading World, 1985
Concludes that elementary school students had difficulty understanding main ideas of social studies passages and were significantly less skilled at this task than at completing main idea workshops. Suggests that the worksheet approach to social studies is insufficient and that direct instruction using textbooks is needed. (FL)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedMillward, Robert E. – Reading World, 1977
Discusses round robin, an archaic form of circle reading, and oral reading strategies and deficiencies. (JM)
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Instruction, Teacher Effectiveness
Peer reviewedRupley, William H.; Blair, Timothy – Reading World, 1977
Explores research studies and effective reading programs that are based on the concept of first identifying effective reading teachers in terms of students' reading achievement and then considering instructional strategies that could account for the students' achievement. (JM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Predictor Variables, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedHunter, Jill – Reading World, 1982
Identifies 10 areas that are vital to successful remedial reading instruction and offers specific suggestions of ways to ensure success in each area based on a theoretical view of reading as an active, thinking process influenced by a child's conceptual abilities and language experience. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Language Skills, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedBaumann, James F. – Reading World, 1983
Describes a study that explored third- and sixth-grade students' ability to comprehend main ideas after reading natural expository passages taken from their social studies textbooks. Concludes that the children had much difficulty comprehending the passages' main ideas. Offers suggestions for content area teachers to improve reading comprehension.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Grade 3
Peer reviewedBurns, Paul C.; Schell, Leo M. – Reading World, 1975
Descriptors: Context Clues, Developmental Reading, Elementary Education, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedWilson, Robert W. – Reading World, 1974
Describes a method for teaching reading comprehension that attempts to develop critical reading skills through questioning. (RB)
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Elementary Education, Questioning Techniques, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedBaumann, James F.; Koch, Kathryn A. – Reading World, 1985
Presents a case study of an eighth-grade girl who received one year of nontraditional remedial reading instruction in which she was treated more like a good reader than a disabled one. Reports that the program produced a moderate improvement in reading ability. (FL)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 8
