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Duncan, Patricia H.; McLeod, Alan M. – 1980
A study of the growth of seventh grade students' writing ability after targeted discussions of children's literature was based on the assumption that active comprehension of a distinctive model of literature would provide an awareness of the structure of narrative prose that would transfer to the student's own writing. Eight students participated…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Research
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Wilson, George H. – Reading Improvement, 1988
Shows how teaching mathematics helps in teaching reading sequence skills. Asserts that students who can write a mathematical sentence, reconstructing the series of events in a verbal problem, can transfer those skills to develop the reading skill of time-order sequence. Illustrates this strategy with three examples of mathematical sequence problem…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Mathematical Applications, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills
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Williams, Maurice; Stevens, Virginia M. R. – Journal of Reading, 1972
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Paragraphs, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Johnson, Richard L.; George, Thomas W. – Tennessee Education, 1975
A sequential, developmental plan for teaching reading via the auditory process is discussed. (JC)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Tests, Auditory Training
Ediger, Marlow – 2002
Advocates of high standards and expectations usually believe that gaps in reading achievement can be eliminated with good teaching, but slow readers need a specially designed reading curriculum. The teacher first needs to use an informal reading inventory to determine the student's reading level. Functioning generally on a higher level than…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Elementary Education, Phonics, Reading Aloud to Others
ROMER, ROBERT D. – 1966
A GUIDE FOR TEACHING PHONIC AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS AND OTHER WORD PERCEPTION SKILLS AT THE PRIMER LEVEL THROUGH GRADE 6 PROVIDES DEFINITIONS, EXAMPLES, AND SUGGESTIONS FOR THE TEACHER. INFORMATION IS PRESENTED WITHIN SIX CATEGORIES--(1) THE TOTAL READING PROGRAM, EMPHASIZING WORD PERCEPTION SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES, LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDINGS,…
Descriptors: Educational Media, Elementary Education, Phonetic Analysis, Phonics
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Butler, Susan R. – Annals of Dyslexia, 1991
The Reading Assistance Tutorial (R.A.T.) Pack is a systematic, multidisciplinary remedial reading program incorporating listening, speaking, seeing, writing, thinking, and comprehension skills. The sequenced activities demand a high percentage of on-task behavior and train phonological processing strategies and functional language use. Research…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Materials, Integrated Activities
Vida, Louisa Kramer – 1980
Using Jean Piaget's theory of thinking as a structuring mechanism, this paper presents a theoretical framework for the development of remedial, corrective, and developmental reading programs geared toward teaching reading comprehension. The four stages of intellectual development that Piaget has proposed (sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete…
Descriptors: Child Development, Classroom Techniques, Concept Formation, Corrective Reading