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Goodwyn, Andy – English in Education, 2022
This article reviews Margaret Meek Spencer's body of work in relation to the various policies that she critiqued from the Bullock Report in 1974 to the National Literacy Strategy in 2004. She analysed increasingly conservative moves to promote a dominant, elitist version of school literacy. A Critical Realist perspective aligns with Margaret Meek…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Political Attitudes, Independent Reading, Intellectual Development
Thompson, Mark E. – Computers, Reading and Language Arts, 1985
Concludes that while computers can be very beneficial to the reading teacher, they cannot provide intellectual stimulation at levels expected from classroom participation. (CRH)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education

Sullivan, Joanna – Journal of Reading, 1978
Suggests that teachers develop techniques to teach students strategies used by good comprehenders: paraphrasing passages, sifting out meaningful word clusters, searching for supportive examples, and making deductions. (MKM)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, High Achievement, Intellectual Development
Klein, Marvin L. – 1978
Current reading theory suggests that oral language skills and reading skills interact with and implement each other. Three guidelines are helpful in shaping the development of proficient readers. (1) From kindergarten on, each year should be spent moving from oral language to print. Furthermore, the move within oral language should be from…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Development, Interaction
Jones, Jack B. – 1978
Many writers have suggested that comprehension occurs at several levels (e.g., literal, inference, and conclusion). However, many teachers spend as much as two-thirds of their time on lower-level skills such as phonics and literal-level comprehension skills. Some authors have suggested ways of assisting readers in achieving comprehension at more…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Charts, Classification, Cognitive Processes
Bruer, John T. – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1993
Research of cognitive scientists is resulting in new learning theories through which students can move from novice to expert. How cognitive scientists work and how their results are applied are discussed. Reciprocal teaching, as implemented in the Springfield (Illinois) schools, provides an example of a successful research-based technique. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Educational Research, Educational Theories
Hutchison, Laveria F. – 1978
In view of the great amount of television viewing among poor readers, the Learning Model for Watching Television was developed to capitalize on students' television watching proclivities. The model encompasses three major overlapping component skill areas to reinforce classroom learning: active listening skills, auditory word recognition skills,…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Development
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Reading Education. – 1978
This booklet provides teachers with models for interactive reading activities that reflect an awareness of comprehension as a complex mental and linguistic process rather than as a hierarchy of mechanically applied subskills. The instructional strategies represent a combination of insights presented in recent research with those gained through…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Development
Decker, Barbara C.; Silverman, Fredrick L. – 1986
Effective teaching strategies must be developed to help students bridge the gap between concrete operational thinking and full formal thinking in the content areas. Reading for meaning requires readers to categorize subjects, recognize relationships, develop and maintain a sequence of thought, recognize and understand inferences, and draw…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Content Area Reading, Critical Thinking
Sheridan, E. Marcia – 1978
Recent studies on schema theory and other concepts related to reading comprehension are discussed in this paper. Noting that the psycholinguistic model of reading views reading as a process of predicting meaning based on the reader's prior knowledge of language, the paper describes recent research that has led to a definition of reading…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Brown, Ann L. – 1985
Reading comprehension skills can be taught effectively across the curriculum leading to enhanced critical thinking and reading skills, as well as improved performance in content areas. Skilled readers plan their approach to the task at hand, monitor their learning as they read, apply strategies to foster learning, evaluate, and if necessary,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking
Fink, Rosalie P. – Thalamus: Journal of the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities, 2000
A study of highly successful men and women with reading disabilities used a developmental approach to investigate how, and under what conditions, males and females with reading disabilities develop high literacy levels and resilient self-concepts. The 60 participants in the study included a Nobel laureate, a member of the National Academy of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Females, Intellectual Development
Page, Glenda, Ed.; And Others – 1978
The first of a two-volume set, this monograph concentrates on a rapidly developing area of reading research, comprehension. Eleven articles cover theoretical aspects, ways of measuring comprehension, and strategies for teaching. Sense of story and its effect on comprehension and the facility to read, listen to, retell, and create stories are…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Presseisen, Barbara Z., Ed. – 1999
This collection of articles offers theories and thoughts presented at the 1998 Teaching for Intelligence Conference. They highlight a wide and diverse range of views on pedagogy, achievement, and the state of education. Section 1, "The Need for Intelligence in Schooling," includes "On the Habit of Informed Skepticism" (Theodore R. Sizer);…
Descriptors: Child Development, Diversity (Student), Educational Change, Educational Environment