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Miller, Harry – Reading Improvement, 2020
The teacher's dilemma presents various strategies for teaching content area reading. Teachers the content subject area should be willing to accept the fact that their role as teachers is vital to the success of his students. Students cannot be expected to read the textbook as they would the local newspaper or a novel. Students need to be taught…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies, Teaching Methods
Mixan, Marisa – Reading Improvement, 2019
Vocabulary development is a crucial aspect of literacy. It is our duty as teachers to enrich the language of our students to better prepare them for a successful lifetime of communication. This paper offers several methods to enhance levels of speech in the classroom. Some of the techniques included are the use of repetitive reading, reading…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Oral Reading
Richards, Janet C. – Reading Improvement, 2020
Studies indicate thoughtfully planned chants integrated with shared book reading help young children remember concepts and vocabulary they hear in literature, capture children's imagination, develop their rhyming acuity, and background knowledge, and increase their sense of story structure, understanding of story sequence, phonological awareness,…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Phonological Awareness, Memory, Auditory Perception
Harper, Christa J. – Reading Improvement, 2020
Learning content-specific vocabulary is critical for students especially in content areas such as science. However, direct vocabulary instruction is lacking in many classrooms. This case study examined vocabulary instructional strategies within a 6th grade science classroom. The following questions were addressed: (1) What science vocabulary…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Content Area Reading
Nelson, Kristin L.; Watkins, Naomi M. – Reading Improvement, 2019
This study surveyed 649 secondary middle and high school English teachers from two U.S. states on their vocabulary instructional practices and on the professional development they had received to do so. The results showed that teachers are likely not selecting enough words of which to explicitly teach the meanings and that their methods of…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, High School Teachers, English Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Mixan, Marisa – Reading Improvement, 2013
Vocabulary development is a crucial aspect of literacy. It is our duty as teachers to enrich the language of our students to better prepare them for a successful lifetime of communication. This paper offers several methods to enhance levels of speech in the classroom. Some of the techniques included are the use of repetitive reading, reading…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Literacy, Speech Improvement, Speech Skills
McCown, Margaret Averill; Thomason, Gina B. – Reading Improvement, 2014
With the increased emphasis on informational text with Common Core State Standards and the difficulty many students have with this type of text, this study examined the effects of Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) on informational text comprehension and metacognitive awareness of fifth grade students. Participating students included a…
Descriptors: State Standards, Reading Comprehension, Metacognition, Reading Strategies
Sobolak, Michelle J. – Reading Improvement, 2011
Researchers have long acknowledged the important role that vocabulary plays in assisting reading comprehension. Because of the importance of vocabulary, it is necessary to determine how to ensure that all students are making adequate vocabulary gains. The research base for the best ways to instruct students in robust vocabulary is strong. The…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development, Socioeconomic Influences
Burgess, Stephen R.; Sargent, Stephan; Smith, Melinda; Hill, Nancy; Morrison, Susan – Reading Improvement, 2011
Several authors have suggested that a teacher's ability to encourage a disposition to read may be linked to their personal reading habits and views of literacy. This study examined the relationship between elementary school teachers' reading habits, knowledge of children's literature, and their use of literacy best practices in the classroom. One…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Reading Habits, Literacy, Elementary School Teachers
Wallace, Christopher – Reading Improvement, 2007
The greatest challenge inhibiting the ability of English-language learners (ELLs) to read at the appropriate grade level is perhaps a lack of sufficient vocabulary development. While extensive reading is beneficial, these students must acquire the necessary vocabulary in order to read extensively. Both vocabulary breadth and vocabulary depth are…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development

Sipe, Betty Barbara – Reading Improvement, 1973
Suggests several variations of a game designed to enhance students' active and passive vocabularies. (TO)
Descriptors: Educational Games, Reading Development, Reading Games, Reading Instruction

Murphy, Jean C. – Reading Improvement, 2004
The Language Vocabulary Acquisition Approach (LVA) to Reading Instruction is a revolutionary new approach to reading instruction for emergent and developing readers in urban settings. The Approach quickly immerses young urban children into print text, bombarding them with a preponderance of words, ideas and general understandings about their…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Teaching Methods, Printed Materials, Vocabulary Development

Sinatra, Richard C. – Reading Improvement, 1977
Discusses a five-week summer reading program for 44 "high risk" children who had completed the first through the fifth grades in which cloze was used as the culminating language arts activity. (JM)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction

Legenza, Alice – Reading Improvement, 1978
Teaching procedures were designed to improve student inquiry as a means of improving student reading and learning skills. Results showed that seventh graders in the experimental situation had significantly higher scores on four of five questioning measures, on a vocabulary measure, and on an attitude scale. (RL)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Grade 7, Inquiry

Browne, Louis R. – Reading Improvement, 1991
States that the acquisition of writing skills and vocabulary building are especially important for minority students. Describes how the systematic study of prefixes, suffixes, and word roots; the generation of student-originated vocabulary lists; and special testing techniques were used for improving writing skills and building vocabulary in a…
Descriptors: Biology, College Students, Higher Education, Minority Groups
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