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Download full textLinda Prentice; Gideon Twum – Teaching and Learning Excellence through Scholarship, 2021
Can a class assignment covering the reading help students do better in an introductory chemistry class for nonmajors? Two sections of the same course have been compared where one section had a reading assignment that "forced" the students to interact with the text while the other class had the typical homework, quiz assignments, and…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Textbooks
Peer reviewedSchumm, Jeanne Shay; Mangrum, Charles T., II – Journal of Reading, 1991
Introduces the FLIP (Friendliness, Language, Interest, Prior Knowledge) framework to help middle and secondary students examine their reading assignments and develop appropriate plans of action. Includes a rationale for the framework, a description of it, and suggestions for classroom implementation. (SR)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Middle Schools, Prior Learning, Reading Assignments
Peer reviewedHahn, William G.; Bart, Barbara D. – Journal of Education for Business, 2003
Business students were taught a total quality management-based outlining process for course readings and a tally method to measure learning efficiency. Comparison of 233 who used the process and 99 who did not showed that the group means of users' test scores were 12.4 points higher than those of nonusers. (Contains 25 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Efficiency, Higher Education, Outlining (Discourse), Reading Assignments
Orlando, Vincent P,; And Others – Forum for Reading, 1989
Studies the reading demands placed on college freshmen (amount, purpose, and relationship to course examinations of required reading) and students' perceptions of these demands. (SR)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Content Area Reading, Postsecondary Education, Reading Assignments
Peer reviewedAllington, Richard L.; Strange, Michael – Reading Horizons, 1979
Suggests that content reading teachers set goals for their reading assignments as a method of helping students learn from textbooks and read the assigned material critically.
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools
Peer reviewedDavey, Beth – Journal of Reading, 1993
Discusses why time planning is important for middle school readers. Outlines the steps in effective time planning. Describes how to help students apply time planning techniques. Presents evidence of the effectiveness of this planning program. (SR)
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools, Program Effectiveness
Olson, Mary W. – 1980
This paper describes the composition of one particular kind of study guide called a pattern guide that can be used by content area teachers to aid their students in reading and understanding their textbooks. The purpose of the guide is stated as highlighting the reading and thinking skills to be used as well as the most important concepts to be…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, Discourse Analysis, Expository Writing
Peer reviewedVanderMeulen, Kenneth – Reading Horizons, 1972
Descriptors: Attention Control, Motivation Techniques, Reading Assignments, Relevance (Education)
Peer reviewedNist, Sherrie L.; Kirby, Katie – Reading Psychology, 1989
Examines patterns in college students' text markings using texts from three content areas: history, political science, and sociology. Indicates little differential marking between various text-types. Concludes that students seem to have little idea how to mark text efficiently. (MG)
Descriptors: College Students, Content Area Reading, Higher Education, History
Streb, Judith A. – 1984
The reading exercises in this workbook cover the general areas of vocabulary development; study skills; comprehension skills; and reading in the content areas. The latter consists of reading materials divided into four major sections: social studies, science, mathematics, and literature. The vocabulary skills include word meaning in context,…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Learning Activities, Programed Instructional Materials, Reading Assignments
Streb, Judith A. – 1984
The reading exercises in this workbook cover the general areas of vocabulary development; study skills; comprehension skills; and reading in the content areas. The latter consists of reading materials divided into four major sections: social studies, science, mathematics, and literature. The vocabulary skills include working with synonyms,…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Learning Activities, Programed Instructional Materials, Reading Assignments
Hebron, C. C. de Winter – 1977
The development of a self-instruction package on making notes from reading which was designed for new students at Newcastle Polytechnic in the United Kingdom is described. Notemaking skills involve recognition of topics and topic sentences in a written text, picking out key content words in the text, recognition of key relationships and…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Independent Reading
Ediger, Marlow – 1998
A basic concept in reading content in the social studies is for pupils to experience adequate background information. A pupil cannot read and understand new subject matter unless prerequisites have been met. For early primary grade pupils, the Big Book concept may be used, wherein the teacher discusses the illustration in the book pertaining to…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Learning Activities
Richardson, Patricia Ann – 1986
A study explored whether the use of a study guide would improve students' comprehension of content area material. Two groups of students in an eighth grade social studies class were involved: students in the control group received the usual instruction--the chapter was read orally and discussed in class--while students in the experimental sample…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Grade 8
Pace, Ann J.; And Others – 1986
An earlier study found virtually no relationship between college students' reported studying practices and various tests of reading comprehension, so a second study investigated whether different results would be obtained with an instrument based on study strategies college students actually reported using. Scores on this instrument were to be…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, Data Analysis
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