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But, Juanita C.; Brown, Pamela; Smyth, Davida S. – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2017
This paper describes the structure and activities of READ (Reading Effectively Across the Disciplines), a pilot initiative to improve students' critical reading skills, disciplinary literacy and academic success. READ employs a multimodal design that consists of faculty training in disciplinary literacy instruction and curricular enhancement,…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Reading Skills, Academic Achievement
Chaplin, Miriam T. – 1976
It is generally assumed that students possess the ability to apply abstract reasoning to content material in a variety of disciplines when they enter college. Yet many college students have not reached the level of formal operations defined by Jean Piaget; thus they experience difficulty in coping with their work. A solution to this dilemma can be…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, College Instruction, Concept Formation, Content Area Reading
Ediger, Marlow – 1998
A basic concept in reading content in the social studies is for pupils to experience adequate background information. A pupil cannot read and understand new subject matter unless prerequisites have been met. For early primary grade pupils, the Big Book concept may be used, wherein the teacher discusses the illustration in the book pertaining to…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Learning Activities
Azarowicz, M. Brown – 1983
The advantages of shared silent reading in the home and in the school for the promotion of literacy are numerous. At home the child may read silently in the presence of a parent who is engaged in a household task, or who is reading silently. In schools, shared silent reading may be used at all grade levels with groups of students in structured or…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Interpersonal Relationship
Creech, Janet; Hale, Gina – Science Teacher, 2006
Reading is an essential part of science literacy, yet teachers often face challenges in incorporating reading in science classrooms. In this article, the authors share how they brought reading back into their science classrooms. They designed four quarterly reading projects with yearlong literacy routines that they used successfully with their…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Skills, Reading Assignments, Middle School Students
San Mateo County Board of Education, Redwood City, CA. – 1971
This guide, designed for use by content area teachers at the junior and senior high school level in their work with students who have minor reading difficulties, contains a number of assessment techniques as well as a variety of approaches and suggestions for teaching. Included are: study guides that are developed around a topic for a specific…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Curriculum Guides, Developmental Reading, Directed Reading Activity
Durdella, Nathan Richard – 2001
Literacy strategies useful in the adult education classroom were presented at a faculty professional development workshop. Literacy was described as a two-part process that included receptive (involving listening and reading) and expressive (involving speaking and writing). Content area was described as the focus of adult education literacy with…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Content Area Reading