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Parry, Becky – Education 3-13, 2016
This paper challenges the reductive notion of children as "efferent" readers who learn to decode written language in order to "take away" knowledge. This anachronistic idea has become entrenched in current UK curriculum and education policy. However, it is well established that decoding letters and sounds is only one aspect of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Strategies, Reading Achievement, Electronic Learning
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Beauvais, Paul J. – Exercise Exchange, 1989
Describes the Reporter's Reading Method, a student-directed reading system that requires students to write questions as they read, and use those questions as the basis for classroom discussion. (MM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Higher Education, Reading Assignments
Ruddell, Martha Rapp-Haggard – 1989
A study examined students' metacognitive response to ambiguous literacy tasks to determine the relationship between that response and academic achievement. Subjects were 11 students chosen from a fifth-grade classroom in a small, urban school serving a predominantly black, middle class neighborhood. Two literacy tasks were identified as ambiguous:…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Class Activities, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades