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McCollin, Michelle; O'Shea, Doris J.; McQuiston, Kathleen – Preventing School Failure, 2009
Secondary-level students from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) backgrounds who struggle with reading need strategies for aligning new information with their previous knowledge as well as for obtaining and retaining essential information from the text. Important components of all secondary literacy support must include instruction in…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Secondary Education, Vocabulary Development
Dagostino, Lorraine; Carifio, James M. – 1993
A study established the logical validity of instructional activities for teaching reading evaluatively. These activities operationalized a theory of literacy and a model of reading comprehension developed by L. Dagostino and J. Carifio that specify 20 general characteristics of literate students who read evaluatively. Nineteen secondary classroom…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Critical Reading, Literacy, Models