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Owoc, Paul J., Ed. – Reporting on Reading, 1979
The three articles in this newsletter focus on ideas, programs, activities, and research concerned with reading in the content areas. The individual articles contain a discussion of the general approaches that characterize many successful content area reading programs, suggestions for educators who are considering establishing such programs in…
Descriptors: Bulletins, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Development
Peer reviewedHunter, Jill S. – Reading World, 1984
Provides an overview of the types of reading programs found in four-year colleges, shows what research says about the different strategies used by good and poor readers in comprehending material, and reviews several existing university programs that are successful in providing instruction in these important reading and learning strategies. (FL)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Reading Instruction
Download full textCampbell, Tim K. – 1994
The concept of autonomy can help secondary reading teachers help their students to become better readers and users of text. Research indicates that many students in content areas do not know how metacognitive strategies can be implemented so that students can become autonomous. Practical suggestions for helping readers become autonomous include…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Literature Reviews, Metacognition, Personal Autonomy
Anthony, Homer Bruce – 1972
The purpose of this study was to develop a conceptual model which may be used by administrators and teachers to implement a program designed to improve reading instruction in the content areas in secondary schools. Nine goals were extracted and one goal was extrapolated from the literature and placed in an open-ended opinionnaire. Principals,…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Principals, Reading, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedArnold, Marie J.; Ingraham, Murray J. – Reading Horizons, 1977
Describes a study designed to compare a program for teaching reading skills in the content area (instituted at the Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction) with the regular type of content presentation and carried out with two heterogenous eighth grade social studies classes. (JM)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 8, Reading Instruction
Herber, Harold L.
The effectiveness of teaching specific, related reading skills within a content subject was tested in seventh-grade science classes. Comparisons were made among seventh graders who were taught no reading skills in conjunction with a content subject, seventh graders who received instruction in reading skills within the social studies content, and…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Developmental Reading, Reading Achievement, Reading Material Selection
Early, Margaret J., Ed. – 1964
This collection of papers, written by specialists in the field, presents information on significant topics in secondary reading. Each paper is followed by a discussion which raises questions and emphasizes points made in the paper. The topics covered include the establishment of an all-school reading program, instruction and class organization,…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Content Area Reading, Developmental Reading, Organization
Early, Margaret J., Ed. – 1964
This collection of papers, written by specialists in the field, presents information on significant topics in secondary reading. Each paper is followed by a discussion which raises questions and emphasizes points made in the paper. The topics covered include the establishment of an all-school reading program, instruction and class organization,…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Content Area Reading, Developmental Reading, Organization
Peer reviewedClark, Susan R. – Journal of Reading, 1991
Describes a collegewide reading project which involved the whole community with activities centered on novelist Kurt Vonnegut's "Galapagos." (MG)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Content Area Reading, Novels, Reading Attitudes
Elmore, Mary Charles; West, Joel B. – J Reading, 1969
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Educational Needs, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
Laffey, James L., Comp. – 1968
A bibliography, with descriptive abstracts, of articles dealing with research on reading in the content fields is presented. The listing is divided into two parts: a bibliography from research literature which focuses on general content reading skills and an "Other Subjects" bibliography selected from literature dealing with areas other than the…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Language Arts, Mathematics
Berdiansky, Betty; Stanton, George – 1969
Previous work has led to identification of an extensive lexicon on which the Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) 1970 primary-grade reading program will be based, as well as to the development of a considerable number of sound-symbol correspondence rules (see Berdiansky, Cronnell, and Koehler, 1969). The present document describes the initial…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Dictionaries, Language Skills, Primary Education
Siebenman, Jeanne; And Others – 1973
This study investigated a ninth grade developmental reading program--reading taught in a reading classroom by a reading teacher--in hopes of determining what could be considered an adequate length of time needed in this type of situation for a student to show specific gains and a definite carry over of skills into the content areas. Ninth grade…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Developmental Reading, Grade 9, Reading
Peer reviewedSinger, Harry; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1984
Reports on a study of the curriculum in six paired elementary schools in Los Angeles. Concludes that, if a school has low scores on inferential, interpretive reading, the cure is probably not to give students more of the basics but to develop their vocabularies and general knowledge by providing broad instruction in the content areas. (FL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Content Area Reading, Curriculum, Elementary Education
Wadleigh, Merritt Edward – 1982
Six questions guided a literature review of content area reading instruction in American secondary schools since 1966: (1) What is the history of reading instruction in American secondary schools through 1965? (2) Why is reading instruction at the secondary level important? (3) What are some factors both within and without secondary schools that…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Educational History, Educational Trends, Literature Reviews
