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Chaemsai, Rungruedee; Rattanavich, Saowalak – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study compares the English reading comprehension and ethical awareness of 7th grade students, when using either a directed reading-thinking activity (DR-TA), or a more traditional approach, involving tales of virtue based on His Majesty the King's teaching concepts. A randomized control group pretest-posttest design was used for the study,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Grade 7, Teaching Methods

Donlan, Dan – Journal of Reading, 1975
Describes a method for teaching reluctant students to develop the skills necessary to read a play. (RB)
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Drama, Guidelines, Reading Skills

Cook, Cynthia L. – Reading World, 1974
Describes a reading lesson designed around a popular song. (RB)
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials, Music
Burns, Bonnie – 1979
The traditional approach to reading in the content areas has been to teach reading skills only in reading class, usually using literature or narrative selections and expecting transfer of those skills to content texts or other expository materials. The transfer of those reading skills has been such a disappointing experience that even students who…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Junior High Schools, Reading Instruction

Pietras, Thomas – English Journal, 1976
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Literary Criticism, Literature Appreciation
Peterson, John C. – Bus Educ Forum, 1970
Descriptors: Achievement, Creative Teaching, Directed Reading Activity, Homework
Cunningham, Patricia – Instructor, 1997
Presents two cross-checking activities to help K-3 students learn decoding. The cross-checking involves decoding by using the consonants in a word along with the context. Children learn to decode by thinking about two things simultaneously (what word would make sense in a sentence and the word's letters and sounds). (SM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Directed Reading Activity
Whisler, Nancy G. – 1980
Noting that "every pupil response" (EPR) techniques allow for all students in a group to respond to each question asked by a teacher, this paper explains how EPR techniques may be incorporated in a reading lesson to help students develop decoding ability. The paper offers a justification for using these directed teaching strategies based on…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Learning Activities

Griffin, Beverly Norris – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1982
Discusses how directed reading activities and vocabulary guides can be used in an English classroom to help improve students' reading comprehension. (HOD)
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, English Instruction, Higher Education, Reading Comprehension
Dietrich, Dorothy M. – 1972
To meet the needs of students reading below their potentials, teachers must learn more about the reading process, become more diagnostic in determining pupils' strengths and weaknesses, and couple their knowledge of reading with an understanding of pupil deficiencies to plan a program to improve the child's ability to read. Diagnosis, though…
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Individualized Instruction, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Improvement
Young, Eleanor C. – French Rev, 1969
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Directed Reading Activity, French, Language Instruction
Bagford, Jack – 1972
This paper offers suggestions in the form of six guidelines on how the teacher can build toward reading maturity in the classroom. The first guideline urges the teacher to remember that reading necessitates a total complex thinking process, one which will prevent persisting at one level of instruction longer than is necessary. Secondly, students…
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Independent Reading, Language Experience Approach
Fade, P. – 1979
The student of English as a second language in the French school system is confronted with morpho-syntactic and lexical difficulties when he or she reads texts on the university level. In addition to these difficulties, the method of approaching the text may also prove to be a problem. A method is outlined to help the student achieve an active and…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Directed Reading Activity, English (Second Language), French
Georgia Association of School Superintendents. – 1964
Materials used in a one-day conference on teaching reading comprehension skills are summarized in this publication. Contents consist of three articles on teaching the comprehension skills, informal reading inventories in science and in geography, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address with comprehension questions, a checklist for the evaluation of teaching…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Informal Reading Inventories
Baugo Community Schools, Elkhart, IN. – 1975
The objective of this project for kindergarten through fifth grade is to interest public and private educational institutions in the systematization of elementary school reading programs. Facets of Systems Directed Reading (SDR) include the use of a differentiated staffing pattern; experienced language arts unit leaders guiding and directing all…
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Program Descriptions, Reading Development