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Snider, Vicki E. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1989
The study found that instructing 13 learning-disabled junior high students in the necessary prior knowledge (information and vocabulary concepts) led to superior reading comprehension performance. Textually explicit text structure also improved reading comprehension. (DB)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Directed Reading Activity, Junior High Schools, Knowledge Level
Witte, Pauline L. – 1981
Gloss, or marginal notations in a text, and other similar techniques can be used by reading specialists both as they attempt to develop meaningful content area reading programs and as they review what is already known before attempting to learn new information. For example, several social studies teachers began their gloss activities by…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Inservice Teacher Education

Thomas, Keith J. – Reading Improvement, 1978
Describes an adapted form of the "Directed Reading Thinking Activity" which guides students through reading assignments with content materials containing an abundance of factual information and details that need to be remembered. (RL)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education

Davis, Zephaniah T. – Journal of Educational Research, 1994
Reports a study that compared the effects of two teacher-directed prereading instructional procedures (directed reading activity versus story grammar/structured overview story mapping) on elementary students' literal and inferential reading comprehension. Story mapping produced better comprehension among third graders but no differences in…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Bean, Thomas W. – 1978
An investigation was conducted to ascertain the effects of the structured overview on both the short-term and long-term comprehension of average and below average readers. The subjects were 143 college students classified as average or below average readers and randomly assigned to either a structured overview (65) or a control group (78). Both…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, Directed Reading Activity, Discourse Analysis

Lewis, Jill Sweiger – Journal of Reading, 1979
Describes a prereading learning activity designed to make comprehension easier in content area reading for students with limited background. (MKM)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Discovery Learning
Kueker, Jean – 1990
This paper addresses the value and components of developing prereading skills to improve students' reading comprehension. Prereading activities are seen to prepare the student to both read and comprehend the story and involve cognitive engagement with ideas crucial to comprehension of the reading material. Teachers are urged to develop the…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Secondary Education, Prereading Experience
Garty, Roberta H. – 1975
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of the study of organizers, directed reading activity (DRA) and SQ3R, on the immediate and delayed recall of social studies materials. Eighty-four seventh-grade students from an intermediate school participated in this study. The results of the study indicated that the DRA technique was an…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Directed Reading Activity, Grade 7, Junior High Schools
Omanson, Richard C.; And Others – 1982
A study evaluated the effectiveness of various models constructed to account for how children read and comprehended a story presented in a directed reading lesson. A commercial directed reading lesson was revised to introduce information related to the story and to help the children form a "map" of the central story content. Data were…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Directed Reading Activity

Morin, Joy Ann – Social Education, 1995
Contends that it is important for students to be motivated and well prepared for class units and activities. Describes a "previews of coming attractions" instructional strategy that uses advance organizers to increase information processing efficiency. Includes a sample unit outline illustrating this approach. (CFR)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Content Area Reading
Pennock, Clifford, Ed. – 1979
Focusing on reading comprehension instruction at the word, sentence, paragraph, and larger unit levels, the articles in this volume were drawn from a variety of sources. The three articles in the first section deal with theoretical bases and conceptual concerns. Specific topics covered include the argument for a discourse analysis model, the…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Discourse Analysis
Lederer, Debra Yuhas – 1977
Theoreticians and empiricists have stressed the importance of organization in the learning process and, therefore, the importance of instructional strategies that help develop a child's ability to organize information. Theoreticians have also stressed the importance of the student's active participation in the learning process. The Directed…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Development, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking
Armbruster, Bonnie B.; And Others – 1986
A study investigated the effect of instruction about conventional expository text structure on fifth-graders' ability to learn from similarly structured social studies material. Subjects, 82 fifth graders from four heterogeneous classrooms in two schools in a small midwestern city, were assigned to either a structure training group which received…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Duke, Charles R. – 1984
Music education is uniquely suited to reinforce several basic skills that are part of the overall reading and writing processes of students. These skills include freedom of expression and the fluency of ideas, identifying a composer's purpose and message, and reasoning and comprehension. Musicians should develop the habit of using journals for…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Writing, Critical Thinking