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Spiegel, Dixie Lee – Reading Teacher, 1981
Offers Request, the Directed Reading-Thinking Activity, the Expectation Outline, the Prereading Guided Reading Procedure, Word Wonder, and Semantic Webbing as techniques that use many of the basic principles of the directed reading activity while adjusting to the needs of specific materials and students. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
Beck, Isabel L.; And Others – 1981
A study investigated whether comprehension of a text could be enhanced by careful structuring of the lesson elements surrounding it. One group of ten second grade children received a reading lesson as prescribed in a basal series that directed attention to irrelevant content while failing to highlight consistently important story elements. A…
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Discourse Analysis, Grade 2, Primary Education
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Blanton, William E.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1986
Proposes a seven-stage model of direct instruction as it might be applied to a reading skills lesson on predicting outcomes. Discusses each stage of the model: exploration, explication, translation, modeling, guided practice, application, and closure. (FL)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Grade 3, Learning Strategies
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Au, Kathryn Hu-Pei – Reading Teacher, 1979
Describes how to help children comprehend what they read using an experience-text-relationship method of discussing and reading class material. (MKM)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Minority Group Children, Minority Groups
Greenlaw, M. Jean; And Others – 1977
In this study, two different approaches to the teaching of reading were designed and presented over an eight-week period, then evaluated according to student scores on three standardized tests. After a pretest, nine first-grade classes were randomly assigned to one of three groups: literature, concept development, or control. In the literature…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Directed Reading Activity
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Strickland, Dorothy S.; Morrow, Lesley Mandel – Reading Teacher, 1989
Discusses the benefits of reading aloud to preschool and kindergarten children. Notes that active participation accounts for many of these benefits. Suggests several interactive story reading strategies, including a Directed Listening-Thinking Activity and shared book experiences. (MM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Emergent Literacy, Prereading Experience
Omanson, Richard C.; And Others – 1982
A study evaluated the effectiveness of various models constructed to account for how children read and comprehended a story presented in a directed reading lesson. A commercial directed reading lesson was revised to introduce information related to the story and to help the children form a "map" of the central story content. Data were…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Directed Reading Activity
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Baumann, James F. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1986
Investigates the effectiveness of a direct instruction model for teaching children to comprehend anaphoric relationships. The results provide further support for the efficacy of a direct instructional model for teaching children reading comprehension skills. (HOD)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Basal Reading, Comparative Analysis, Directed Reading Activity
Gray, Mary Jane – Illinois Schools Journal, 1982
Discusses the role of the elementary teacher in instilling a love of reading in children. Stresses need to provide material of interest to children, the pitfalls of oral reading, and the need to help parents plan book purchases. (CJM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Books, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary School Teachers
Learning, 1991
This activity book uses the whole language approach to encourage young readers and prereaders to become critical listeners and viewers by comparing different versions of familiar fairy tales ("The Three Little Pigs" and "Beauty and the Beast"). Class activities, educational games, posters, and student activity pages are…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Critical Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Fairy Tales