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Clark, Kathleen F.; Graves, Michael F. – Reading Teacher, 2005
In this article, the authors explore the concept of instructional scaffolding as it applies to facilitating students' reading comprehension. They argue that scaffolding is a highly flexible and adaptable model of instruction that supports students as they acquire both basic skills and higher order thinking processes, allows for explicit…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Cognitive Processes, Reading Comprehension, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Jackson, Josephine A.; Dorgo, Sandor – Teaching Elementary Physical Education, 2002
Describes benefits of and challenges to achieving the national standards for physical education by using the Spectrum reciprocal style of teaching, discussing how it can be linked to all seven of the national standards for physical education and how all three of the learning domains (psychomotor, cognitive, and social) have some connection, with…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, National Standards, Physical Education
Lamon, Mary; Laferriere, Therese – Education Canada, 2003
A review of the role of prior knowledge, metacognition, and intentionality in learning culminates in an example of how knowledge building--the community construction of new knowledge through theory construction and revision--works in a Canadian elementary science class. Comparing theories on the "public forum" of networked software…
Descriptors: Brain, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Marston, Douglas; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1995
Research-based reading interventions (peer tutoring, reciprocal teaching, effective teaching principles, computer-aided instruction, and two direct instruction models) were implemented by 37 special-education resource teachers working with 176 elementary school students with mild disabilities. The computer-assisted, reciprocal, and direct…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Improvement
Al-Hilawani, Yasser A.; And Others – 1993
This study was conducted to explore the relationship between teaching methods and students' grades at the college level. Subjects, 58 undergraduate students enrolled in 2 introductory education courses, were organized into groups and exposed to one of two teaching methods: the lecture format and reciprocal teaching. Reciprocal teaching engages…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Action Research, Elementary Education, Higher Education
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Kelly, Marie; And Others – Journal of Educational Research, 1994
Reports a study that assessed the effects of reciprocal teaching on the comprehension of poor reading comprehenders who read nonfiction material in a regular classroom. Heterogeneous reading groups from two elementary classes participated in reciprocal teaching. Data analysis showed there were significant improvements in comprehension that were…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries