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Peer reviewedRusnak, Martha H. – Language Arts, 1980
Examines the benefits of allowing children ample and regular time periods to read on their own and in their own area of interest in relation to the need for children to understand reading as more than a series of unrelated workbook exercises. (HTH)
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedSpiegel, 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
Peer reviewedBergman, Janet L.; Schuder, Ted – Educational Leadership, 1993
A Maryland school system developed a program called "Students Achieving Independent Learning" (SAIL) to help low-achieving students learn how to read. SAIL helps students become successful readers by showing them steps they can take throughout the reading process to increase their understanding. (13 references) (MLF)
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Low Achievement, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedDavidson, Jane L. – Reading Horizons, 1982
Offers suggestions for effective use of the Directed Reading-Thinking Activity developed by R. Stauffer. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedGold, Patricia Cohen – Reading Teacher, 1981
Proposes the "say and write" method and the directed sentence reading method as ways of using language experience stories to develop children's sight vocabulary. (FL)
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Language Experience Approach, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
Sparber, Ilona – Australian Journal of Reading, 1981
Evaluates the characteristics common to most reading programs and offers suggestions for keeping a program a learning rather than a testing situation. (HTH)
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
Peer reviewedSchmitt, Maribeth Cassidy; Baumann, James F. – Reading Teacher, 1986
Describes how teachers can incorporate the use of comprehension monitoring activities into the guided reading phase of basal reading instruction. (FL)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Cognitive Processes, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedStauffer, Russell G.; Harrell, Max M. – Reading Teacher, 1975
Describes a program for individualizing directed reading-thinking activities. (RB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedCharnock, James – Reading Teacher, 1977
Written questions and answers lead to original thinking and writing and to better reading class management than does the "directed reading activity" approach to reading instruction. (JM)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Creative Thinking, Creative Writing, Directed Reading Activity
Peer reviewedJosel, Carol A. – Journal of Reading, 1986
Describes a Silent Directed Thinking Activity that was based on an abridged version of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" and used with eighth-grade remedial classes. (HOD)
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Remedial Reading
Peer reviewedRygiel, Mary Ann – English Journal, 1982
Discusses the applications of Russell G. Stauffer's work to the teaching of reading. (JL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Directed Reading Activity, English Instruction, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedSpiegel, Dixie Lee – Reading Horizons, 1980
Suggests using the Guided Reading Procedure as a prereading activity and as a postreading activity when students have read different materials. (MKM)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Instruction
Peer reviewedCheek, Martha C.; Cheek, Earl H. – NASSP Bulletin, 1981
Explains how administrators can help teachers incorporate reading skills into the content areas and outlines a five-step procedure. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Reading Instruction
Cooter, Robert B., Jr.; Reutzel, D. Ray – Academic Therapy, 1987
The article describes the Direct Instruction Skills Plan, a comprehensive plan for direct and text-related reading skill instruction which places skill instruction prior to text reading. Steps include anticipatory set, objective and input, modeling, purpose setting and guided application, independent practice, checking for understanding, real-life…
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Mastery Learning, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedValeri-Gold, Maria – Reading Horizons, 1986
Proposes an instructional model that uses a directed reading-thinking activity for teaching students to preview their textbook materials. (FL)
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Reading Instruction
