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Strategies to Improve Reading Comprehension.

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Griffin, Beverly Norris – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1982

Discusses how directed reading activities and vocabulary guides can be used in an English classroom to help improve students' reading comprehension. (HOD)

Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, English Instruction, Higher Education, Reading Comprehension

Teaching Content and Improving Reading: You CAN Do Both!

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Griffin, Beverly Norris – 1981

In the face of declining student reading abilities, content area instructors at community colleges can no longer ignore the gap that exists between student reading levels and the higher levels at which college texts are written. Indeed, these instructors have a responsibility to include reading improvement in course objectives, because: (1) the…

Descriptors: Community Colleges, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Reading Achievement