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Peer reviewedKing, J. Freeman – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1997
Discusses how books that have predictable story lines can provide rich opportunities for students with hearing impairments to expand their knowledge, experience success in decoding and predicting text, and develop a love of reading. Tips are provided for choosing books that contain familiar sequences, events, ideas, and situations. (CR)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Hearing Impairments, Prediction
Harste, Jerome C. – 1986
A study was conducted to identify strategies used by successful readers in comprehending and interpreting various kinds of texts. Seventy-three graduate students were asked to keep a journal (unedited and freely written) of what they were thinking as they were reading Umberto Eco's novel "The Name of the Rose." Selected journal entries…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Context Effect, Creative Thinking, Critical Reading
Download full textSteiner, Linda – 1986
Specific social groups express themselves through their own particularized media. For example, "MS" magazine directs its communication to feminist readers, and as a part of this, regularly reprints advertisements and news clipping taken from mainstream media in its "No Comment" section. This section provides opportunities for…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Audience Analysis, Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Peer reviewedColberg, Susan; Snart, Fern – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1992
This paper reviews graphophonic factors underlying the development of reading competence and their relationship to functional aspects of reading. The paper suggests that attention be paid to aspects of visual form, such as the use of typographic and linguistic cues, to improve the operational effectiveness and motivational appeal of materials for…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Graphemes
Grebelsky, Ora – 1990
An Israeli study determined what happens when persons with low-literacy levels read news accounts that presuppose general knowledge that the writer expects them to have, but that they may not necessarily possess. The study sample consisted of about 600 students, mostly women, in 30 literacy centers throughout the country. In each class, adult…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Content Area Reading
Hoffman, Sandra Josephs – 1986
Reading aloud to children is an important facet of the literate home environment and the best preparation for the establishment of preschool literacy skills. David was read to at every opportunity, and a diary was kept to observe, record, and study his emergent literacy events in the home. Since David often asked to have the same books read to…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childrens Literature, Decoding (Reading), Early Reading
