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Peer reviewedAllington, Richard L.; Strange, Michael – Reading Horizons, 1979
Suggests that content reading teachers set goals for their reading assignments as a method of helping students learn from textbooks and read the assigned material critically.
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools
Richardson, Patricia Ann – 1986
A study explored whether the use of a study guide would improve students' comprehension of content area material. Two groups of students in an eighth grade social studies class were involved: students in the control group received the usual instruction--the chapter was read orally and discussed in class--while students in the experimental sample…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Grade 8
