This qualitative case study explored two Chinese international graduate students' beliefs about their reading and reading processes. The researcher interviewed the participants, asked them to read aloud, analyzed their reading using miscue analysis, and then discussed their reading with them using retrospective miscue analysis (RMA). The…

This study examined how text features (i.e., cohesion) and individual differences (i.e., reading skill and prior knowledge) contribute to biology text comprehension. College students with low and high levels of biology knowledge read two biology texts, one of which was high in cohesion and the other low in cohesion. The two groups were similar in…

The most important skill teachers can communicate through reading experiences is the awareness of what kinds of questions to ask with different kinds of texts. These questions are not the factual questions that drift in and out of short term memory but the implicit questions, the thought-provoking "big questions." Some teachers…

Examines the skills readers bring to the reading act, the print requirements of social studies textbooks, why breakdowns in learning sometimes occur during reader interactions with text, and possible solutions. (SR)

The eye movements of two college graduates were monitored in a study of flexible reading, which is defined as the ability to adjust one's rate and approach to reading according to the purpose of reading, the difficulty of the material, and one's knowledge of the subject matter. The subjects were told to read an excerpt from a tenth grade biology…

One framework for reading instruction that focuses on the message suggests that all words can be classified as matter or relation references. This framework is applicable to the words and symbols used in mathematical symbolic sentences when they are defined as two or more names for numbers of sets joined together by a relation symbol. The use of…

To comprehend effectively, students must be taught how to analyze the particular comprehsnsion tasks before them in order to determine the specific thinking processes necessary for the solution of these tasks at the appropriate level of difficulty. Rather than teaching specific comprehension skills in an abstract, formulistic manner separated from…

Hand-in-hand with the current renewed emphasis on student success and a resurgence of Writing Across the Curriculum, instructors in all disciplines need to refocus on Reading Across the Curriculum to address students' needs, to achieve instructional goals, and to prepare citizens for full participation in our democracy. It seems clear that a…

Career education is a wholistic concept which includes both job satisfaction and the imaginative use of leisure. It aims to facilitate education of all students so they may appropriately choose and prepare not only for their life's work but for all aspects of living. Since career education emphasizes the importance of developing vocational and…

Proposes that by focusing on comprehension and schema development rather than skill and drill, secondary and college level reading instructors can promote more meaningful reading. (HOD)

Presents an instructional strategy--the "parallel lesson transfer"--for teaching students to identify main ideas. The lessons involve students in viewing pictures, listening, oral reading, and silent reading. (JT)

Twenty-nine prelingually, profoundly deaf adolescents were interviewed to assess their metacognitive knowledge about school-related reading. Students' schemata for school-related reading were largely skill based and passive and lacked mature metacognitive knowledge that would enable students to gain the most from their reading instruction and…

Discusses the importance prior knowledge plays in learning in the content areas. Discusses previewing pictures as a prereading activity and presents a picture analysis activity which can be used to activate prior knowledge to use as a foundation for good bridge building. (MG)

Reading is a skill that can complement a hands-on approach in learning relevant facts, concepts, and generalizations pertaining to different units of study. Teachers should guide students to have the ability to identify unknown words prior to their actual reading of subject matter in science. Pupils tend to make minimal mistakes in word…

Notes that in the fourth grade, readers begin a transitional period where emphasis shifts from experiential reading to include informational and expository material. Discusses reading in the different content areas--English, history, mathematics, and science--and asserts that teachers should spend more time preparing students to read in these…