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Peer reviewedOlson, Mary W., Ed. – Reading Psychology, 1992
Relates the process of tutoring a gifted high school student. Asserts that his problems are not unique: bright students often have the same difficulty learning from expository text as average or below average students, and they can be as disorganized as everyone else. Suggests that high schools should offer instruction in content area reading.…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Gifted, High Schools, Learning Processes
Download full textBrown, Ann L.; And Others – 1977
The ability to select (a) suitable retrieval cues and (b) the main ideas of prose passages was examined in college students and in school students between fifth and twelfth grades. The ability to select the main elements of texts improved over the entire age range studied and was not affected by experience studying and recalling the passage.…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Experience, Higher Education, Intermediate Grades
Gallagher, Margaret; Pearson, P. David – 1989
A series of studies addressed basic questions about instruction in subject areas such as science and social studies at the elementary level, focusing on group discussion of textbook content and addressing the effects of instruction in terms of students' knowledge acquisition and their independent reading comprehension of new content. Subjects,…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Grade 4, Group Discussion, Independent Reading
Brown, Ann L.; Smiley, Sandra S. – 1977
The strategies of children and college students were examined as they attempted to study texts. College students, under various intentional learning instructions, displayed a repetitive diagnostic pattern. Following extended study they improved recall of important, but not unimportant, elements of texts. Eleventh and twelfth graders conformed to…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Higher Education, Intermediate Grades, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedLanger, Judith A. – Journal of Reading, 1986
Examines how six high school juniors approached three common study tasks: completing short answer study questions, taking notes, and writing essays. Concludes that different study activities involve students in very different thinking patterns and also lead to different kinds of learning. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Learning Processes
Adejumo, Dayo – 1976
The effect of using multiple-choice questions as review aids was investigated in four groups of college students. One group generated multiple-choice questions and used them as review aids, while the second group (the "yoked" group) used the questions generated by the first group. The third group used the experimenter's questions, and…
Descriptors: College Students, Content Area Reading, Higher Education, Learning Processes
Langer, Judith A. – 1986
Two studies examined the effects of writing on subject learning. For the first study, 322 ninth and eleventh grade students read passages from high school social studies and science texts and engaged in six writing-to-study conditions. Students who wrote essays scored lower on immediate topic knowledge posttests, while the students who used study…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, High Schools, Information Processing
Jones, Beau F.; Hall, James W. – 1979
The keyword method, originally developed as an instructional technique in foreign language acquisition, was tested for its application in other school learning tasks and as a self-initiated study strategy. Two classes containing a total of 40 eighth grade students served as the experimental and control groups. The tasks were learning to pair…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 8
Moore, David W.; Moore, Sharon Arthur; Cunningham, Patricia M.; Cunningham, James W. – 1998
Intended for use in undergraduate or postbaccalaureate teacher preparation programs, during staff development activities, and in introductory graduate teacher education courses, this book introduces K-12 teachers to the topic of helping students use reading and writing as tools for learning. This third edition retains features of earlier…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Educational Environment
Furukawa, James M.; And Others – 1980
The cognitive processing capacity (CPC) model of teaching and studying was used to determine whether tenth grade students could improve their performance in biology. The 27 students in the experimental class were taught to study information in quantities that matched their CPC and to chunk these quantities together under a heading in a study…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biology, Cognitive Style, Content Area Reading
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1983
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The eight titles deal with the following topics: (1) the relationship of training in self-generated questioning with passage difficulty and immediate and delayed retention; (2) the influence of previewing techniques on the reading…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, Content Area Reading
Singer, Harry, Ed.; Bean, Thomas W., Ed. – 1984
Papers in this report were presented at a conference on text characteristics, convened as part of the Learning from Text Project. The foreword describes the University of California and California State University Joint Projects Steering Committee project to determine the relationship between ability to learn from text and academic achievement,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Evaluation Criteria
Peer reviewedGee, Thomas C.; Rakow, Steven J. – Journal of Reading, 1987
Presents results of a survey of 37 university-level content reading specialists in which the specialists listed teaching practices that content teachers could incorporate into their teaching to help students learn from texts. Recommends: (1) using multiple texts; (2) using study guides; (3) teaching metacognitive strategies; and (4) direct…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Independent Study, Learning Processes
