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Lehr, Fran – Reading Teacher, 1980
Discusses instructional approaches to content area reading that are described in ERIC documents. Among the areas discussed are prereading activities; strategies to support comprehension as students read; an integrated approach to vocabulary, comprehension, and textbook organization; and kits of materials for integrating reading skills into content…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials
Kintsch, W.; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1975
Experiments were done for comprehension and recall using short English texts with a controlled number of words and propositions but differing in the number of word concepts in the text base. Reading time was longer and recall less for texts with more word concepts. (SC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Memory
Mooney, Margaret – Teaching PreK-8, 1995
Focuses on guiding readers toward making informed decisions about choosing appropriate paths through and beyond the text. Points out that this type of reading program can work as well for intermediate grade readers as it does for primary readers. (ET)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary School Students, Intermediate Grades

Botel, Morton; Granowsky, Alvin – Reading Teacher, 1974
Suggests several ways to stimulate students to comprehend literature with both feelings and facts. (TO)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary School Students
Vacca, Richard T. – 1973
A functional approach to reading was investigated in seventh grade social studies classes to determine the effectiveness of guiding students in the adaptation of two essential comprehension abilities needed to read the text materials. Specifically, the investigation evaluated the use of reading guides prepared to aid students in the recognition of…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Educational Research, Functional Reading

Macklin, Michael D. – Journal of Reading, 1978
Shows how a content area teacher can help students relate prior experiences to the new information to be gained through the reading assignment. (MKM)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Reading Comprehension
Georgia Association of School Superintendents. – 1964
Materials used in a one-day conference on teaching reading comprehension skills are summarized in this publication. Contents consist of three articles on teaching the comprehension skills, informal reading inventories in science and in geography, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address with comprehension questions, a checklist for the evaluation of teaching…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Informal Reading Inventories
Hodges, Carol – 1982
Intermediate grade teachers can help students deal with content area reading problems by using the directed reading activity (DRA) approach. Prior to using this approach the teacher needs to decide the major concepts to be emphasized in the content selection, the vocabulary terms to be taught, the specific skills to be taught to aid in…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Intermediate Grades, Learning Activities

Alvermann, Donna E.; Boothby, Paula R. – Reading Psychology, 1986
Investigates the transfer effects of graphic organizer instruction on fourth graders' ability to use top-level structure as an aid in comprehending and retaining content reading materials and concludes that there were no discernable effects. (DF)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Grade 4

Bean, Thomas W.; Pardi, Rick – Journal of Reading, 1979
Discusses a study that explored the effect of a guided reading strategy on the short- and long-term comprehension of disadvantaged students in a seventh-grade geography class. (DD)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
Stewart-Dore, Nea – 1982
The Effective Reading in Content Areas (ERICA) teaching model comprises four stages: preparing for reading, thinking through information, extracting and organizing information, and translating information. Aspects to consider in the first stage include the preparation of ideas, text, and vocabulary. Two strategies can be used to promote reflection…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Models
Piercey, Dorothy – 1976
This book suggests reading activities and teaching strategies to encourage students' success in the following middle school and secondary school content areas: business; driver education; English, speech, and journalism; art, music, and theater; foreign languages (French, Spanish, and German); health; home economics end industrial and vocational…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Learning Activities, Middle Schools
Ryder, Randall J. – 1978
A successful content area reading program not only includes reading classes that teach specific skills, but also provides for the inservice training of teachers, offering activities that facilitate student reading comprehension in the content areas. For such a program to succeed, the financial commitment and time devoted to teacher training must…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Development
Frase, Lawrence T.; Silbiger, Francene – 1969
The incidental learning effects of discrimination which would be required in searching for and selecting related information in a text were explored. Sixty-one students from three educational psychology classes at Fairleigh-Dickinson University participated. Subjects were randomly assigned to four experimental groups and were given reading search…
Descriptors: College Students, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Discrimination Learning
Defense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1970
Both the 1945 and the 1950 constitutions of the Republic of Indonesia are presented in Bahasa Indonesian as part of the basic language course in Indonesian. The volume is used daily for reading comprehension practice during the final weeks of the third phase of the course. Comparing these constitutions enables students to comprehend the course of…
Descriptors: Constitutional History, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Indonesian