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Spiegel, Dixie Lee – Reading Teacher, 1981
Offers Request, the Directed Reading-Thinking Activity, the Expectation Outline, the Prereading Guided Reading Procedure, Word Wonder, and Semantic Webbing as techniques that use many of the basic principles of the directed reading activity while adjusting to the needs of specific materials and students. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
Cunningham, Patricia – Instructor, 1997
Presents two cross-checking activities to help K-3 students learn decoding. The cross-checking involves decoding by using the consonants in a word along with the context. Children learn to decode by thinking about two things simultaneously (what word would make sense in a sentence and the word's letters and sounds). (SM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Directed Reading Activity

Chapman, Marilyn L. – Canadian Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education, 1999
Calls for review of research on best practices in phonemic awareness training and direct-instruction reading programs. Suggests that a more effective approach to reading instruction is to integrate skills instruction with meaningful literacy experiences and to use writing to help children learn about written language, including phonemic awareness.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Literacy Education, Phonemic Awareness
Greenlaw, M. Jean; And Others – 1977
In this study, two different approaches to the teaching of reading were designed and presented over an eight-week period, then evaluated according to student scores on three standardized tests. After a pretest, nine first-grade classes were randomly assigned to one of three groups: literature, concept development, or control. In the literature…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Directed Reading Activity
Starr, John W.; Brown, Don – Oregon ASCD Curriculum Bulletin, 1975
The selected activities in this bulletin are divided into three categories: games and strategies for primary grades, those for intermediate grades, and activities for the slow or reluctant learner. Among the activities and games contained in the first part are those which deal with: reading readiness; visual and auditory discrimination; concept…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension

Strickland, Dorothy S.; Morrow, Lesley Mandel – Reading Teacher, 1989
Discusses the benefits of reading aloud to preschool and kindergarten children. Notes that active participation accounts for many of these benefits. Suggests several interactive story reading strategies, including a Directed Listening-Thinking Activity and shared book experiences. (MM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Emergent Literacy, Prereading Experience
Gray, Mary Jane – Illinois Schools Journal, 1982
Discusses the role of the elementary teacher in instilling a love of reading in children. Stresses need to provide material of interest to children, the pitfalls of oral reading, and the need to help parents plan book purchases. (CJM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Books, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary School Teachers
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Div. of Public Schools. – 1977
This packet is designed for use by persons conducting staff-development workshops on reading readiness and beginning reading. Organized according to an "interrelatedness concept of readiness," the materials cover six interdependent factors: physical, perceptual, cognitive, linguistic, psychological, and experimental/environmental. The…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Educational Objectives, Language Arts

Topping, Keith – Reading, 1986
Describes and evaluates several methods for teaching reading that can involve the parent in the child's reading development. Concludes that a program involving paired reading in its purest form is the best method. (SRT)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Corrective Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education
Douglass, Malcolm P., Ed. – 1981
As part of a continuing series, this book contains 21 papers, the titles of which reflect the authors' attention to the theme of the conference (the nature of reading behavior and the central role of meaning in the broad definition of reading). Titles include the following topics: (1) reading as one part of language; (2) how home life affects…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Literacy, Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading
Miller, Bonnie L. – 1975
Six weeks were spent working with a five-year-old kindergarten child who had an excellent understanding of sound/symbol relationships but did not know how to read for meaning. A variety of techniques was used to help the child develop reading strategies and increase confidence: directed reading-thinking activity in week one; student retelling of a…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Case Studies, Directed Reading Activity, Early Childhood Education