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Berger, Margot – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2019
This paper explores different ways in which mathematics students read a section of a prescribed mathematics textbook. In this case, the students are mathematics teachers learning new mathematics in a self-study calculus course. Two students were video-taped, while they studied a prescribed portion of the textbook. The reading styles of these two…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Mathematics Instruction, Prior Learning, Textbooks
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Dahl, Amanda C.; Carlson, Sarah E.; Renken, Maggie; McCarthy, Kathryn S.; Reynolds, Erin – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: Complex features of science texts present idiosyncratic challenges for middle grade readers, especially in a post-Common Core educational world where students' learning is dependent on understanding informational text. The primary aim of this study was to explore how middle school readers process science texts and whether such…
Descriptors: Science Materials, Textbooks, Difficulty Level, Readability
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Blikstad-Balas, Marte; Klette, Kirsti; Roe, Astrid – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
The present study investigates the use of authentic texts (fiction and non-fiction) in 180 video-recorded language arts lessons across 46 secondary classrooms in Norway. It assesses how the texts are used and what kind of language arts-related activities and discourses students are engaging in. The study finds that a majority of the lessons do not…
Descriptors: Authentic Learning, Textbooks, Reader Text Relationship, Learning Activities
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Agrawal, Rakesh; Gollapudi, Sreenivas; Kannan, Anitha; Kenthapadi, Krishnaram – Journal of Educational Data Mining, 2014
We present "study navigator," an algorithmically-generated aid for enhancing the experience of studying from electronic textbooks. The study navigator for a section of the book consists of helpful "concept references" for understanding this section. Each concept reference is a pair consisting of a concept phrase explained…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Textbooks, Navigation, Hypermedia
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Weinberg, Aaron; Wiesner, Emilie – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2011
Textbooks have the potential to be powerful tools to help students develop an understanding of mathematics. However, many students are unable to use their textbooks effectively as learning tools. This paper presents a framework that can be used to analyze factors that impact the ways students read textbooks. It adapts ideas from reader-oriented…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Reading, Teacher Role, Reading Processes
Landers, Amy Kurivchack – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Texts are typically classified by researchers into one of two genres: narrative or expository. Narrative texts are meant to entertain (e.g., fictional novels and stories), while expository texts are meant to educate (e.g., text books and empirical articles) (Weaver & Bryant, 1995). One problem with this simple method for categorizing texts is that…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Factor Analysis, Literary Genres, Classification
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Porat, Dan A. – Curriculum Inquiry, 2006
In this article, I present three students' and one parent's reading of an excerpt from a textbook on the Israeli-Arab conflict. The excerpt is an account of a skirmish between Jews and Arabs in 1920, symbolizing for Jews the first bloody encounter between the two sides. While all students read the same excerpt, they use different mechanisms in…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Conflict, Arabs, Jews
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Benest, I. D. – Computers and Education, 1990
Discussion of computer-assisted learning (CAL) versus book learning focuses on software called a book emulator that was applied to CAL to reflect desirable attributes of learning from books. A project at the University of York that used the book emulator in an electronics course is described, and future possibilities are suggested. (12 references)…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Electronics, Foreign Countries
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Zaharias, Jane Ann – English Journal, 1989
Examines tasks provided for students in most literature textbooks used in the United States, noting that these tasks typically control students' responses to literature. Relates these tasks to current theory and research on the reading process. Describes activities from literature texts used in Canada that facilitate literary response. (MM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Foreign Countries, Reader Response
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Goetz, Ernest T.; And Others – Reading Research and Instruction, 1987
Examines the nature and prevalence of author-provided cues to effective processing of introductory college textbooks in psychology and biology. Concludes that the authors of the texts chose cues that would be effective even with relatively passive learners and rarely chose cues that demanded much activity from readers. (SKC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Content Area Reading, Cues
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Beck, Isabel L. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1991
Uses a cognitive processing perspective to revise fifth grade social studies texts, to describe those revisions, and to demonstrate their effects empirically. Finds that students reading the revised text recalled more material and answered more questions correctly than did those reading the original text. Concludes that a text-processing approach…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Villanueva de Debat, Elba – English Teaching Forum, 2006
This article discusses different approaches to reading instruction for EFL learners based on theoretical frameworks. The author starts with the bottom-up approach to reading instruction, and briefly explains phonics and behaviorist ideas that inform this instructional approach. The author then explains the top-down approach and the new cognitive…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Phonics