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Textual Problems and Instructional Solutions: Strategies for Enhancing Learning from Published History Textbooks.
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Harniss, Mark K.; Dickson, Shirley V.; Kinder, Diane; Hollenbeck, Keith L. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2001
Notes that teachers and students with and without disabilities often struggle to use history textbooks effectively. Explores current concerns (e.g. text structure, readability) regarding history textbooks and provides recommendations for modifying instruction to improve students' acquisition of history knowledge. Reports adaptations in content and…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Educational Strategies, History Textbooks, Instructional Effectiveness
An Analysis of Middle School Geography Textbooks: Implications for Students with Learning Problems.
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Jitendra, Asha K.; Nolet, Victor; Xin, Yan Ping; Gomez, Ophelia; Renouf, Kristin; Iskold, Lubov; DaCosta, Janice – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2001
Evaluates four middle school geography textbooks to examine readability levels, knowledge forms, intellectual operations, instructional objectives, and activities associated with before-, during-, and after-phases of instruction. Finds the texts to be generally inconsiderate of poor readers and to be dense with factual information. Discusses…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Geography, Instructional Improvement, Learning Problems
Learning Counter-Intuitive Science Concepts: What Have We Learned from Over a Decade of Research?
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Guzzetti, Barbara J. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2000
Integrates findings from qualitative and quantitative research in conceptual change that investigated text and text-based strategies. Emphasizes findings that have direct implications for instructional research and practice: (1) refutational text is not sufficient to produce conceptual change; (2) discussion of refutational text must be…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Literature Reviews, Misconceptions, Reader Text Relationship
Readers, Texts and Conceptual Change Learning.
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Dole, Janice A. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2000
Examines reader and text variables related to conceptual change learning from science textbooks. Shows it is difficult to change readers' prior knowledge by reading texts that are inconsistent with that knowledge, but refutation text was shown to impact students' prior knowledge when that knowledge contained naive scientific conceptions. Addresses…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Misconceptions, Prior Learning, Reader Text Relationship
Integrating Reading and Writing To Teach Compare-Contrast Text Structure: A Research-based Methodology.
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Dickson, Shirley – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1999
Proposes an instructional approach for teaching compare-contrast composition within a social studies context. Notes dimensions of this approach (based on research involving students with and without learning difficulties) concern text structure, writing process, and integrated reading and writing. Presents examples of lesson plans and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Integrated Activities, Lesson Plans
An Evaluation of Main Idea Strategy Instruction in Four Commercial Reading Programs: Implications for Students with Learning Problems.
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Jitendra, Asha K.; Chard, David; Hoppes, Mary K.; Renouf, Kristin; Gardill, M. Cathleen – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2001
Evaluates four commercial reading programs at the second, fourth, and sixth grade levels with respect to main idea instructional practices and readability of text. Evaluates the type of main idea tasks and main idea statements, as well as placement of explicit main idea statements in the text. Discusses implications for practitioners meeting…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Educational Strategies, Elementary Education, Grade 2