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Peer reviewedCampbell, Anne – Journal of Reading, 1979
Explains why applying a readability formula to a content text is not enough to determine whether a student can read and understand the book. (MKM)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Mathematics Instruction, Readability, Readability Formulas
Download full textRubin, Andee, Ed. – 1981
Drawn from a symposium presented at the 1979 National Reading Conference, the four papers in this collection describe a notion of conceptual readability, an approach contrasting with traditional readability computations (number of words per sentence and degree of familiarity of individual words) and focusing on the concepts communicated by the…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Discourse Analysis, Influences, Models
State Univ. of New York, Albany. Two Year Coll. Student Development Center. – 1981
Intended as a resource of staff-tested activities for two-year college faculty, staff, and administrators, this manual is a compilation of representative materials from training workshops conducted, as a professional development project, to increase instructor skills and knowledge regarding intervention in reading deficiency of postsecondary…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Faculty, Content Area Reading, Faculty Development
Thornton, L. Jay; And Others – 1981
Clustered Construction Trades Reading Strategies is one of four instructional guides developed to assist teachers working with students considered disadvantaged because of reading deficiency. Section 1 concerns readability and gives procedures and guidelines for collecting samples. Section 2 briefly describes the Cloze procedure and its usefulness…
Descriptors: Building Trades, Case (Grammar), Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading
Thornton, L. Jay; And Others – 1981
Clustered Trade & Industrial Occupations Reading Strategies is one of four instructional guides developed to assist teachers working with students considered disadvantaged because of reading deficiency. Section 1 concerns readability and gives procedures and guidelines for collecting samples. Section 2 briefly describes the Cloze procedure and its…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, Corrective Reading
Thornton, L. Jay; And Others – 1981
Clustered Health Occupations Reading Strategies is one of four instructional guides developed to assist teachers working with students considered disadvantaged because of reading deficiency. Section 1 concerns readability and gives procedures and guidelines for collecting samples. Section 2 briefly describes the Cloze procedure and its usefulness…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Case (Grammar), Cloze Procedure
Thornton, L. Jay; And Others – 1981
Clustered Business Occupations Reading Strategies is one of four instructional guides developed to assist teachers working with students considered disadvantaged because of reading deficiency. Section 1 concerns readability and gives procedures and guidelines for collecting samples. Section 2 briefly describes the Cloze procedure and its…
Descriptors: Business Education, Case (Grammar), Clerical Occupations, Cloze Procedure
