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Jackson, Evelyn – 1980
The survey step in the SQ3R study reading strategy consists of scanning the reading material and its organizational features to establish the nature/magnitude of the reading task and to formulate guidelines for accomplishing that task. When the chapters of six history textbooks were examined for the presence, absence, and number of organizational…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, Higher Education, Reading Skills
Digeser, Andreas – Neusprachliche Mitteilungen, 1971
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Language Instruction, Language Styles, Relevance (Education)

Beck, Isabel L.; McKeown, Margaret G. – Language Arts, 1991
Discusses the use of content area textbooks and indicates that content textbooks are difficult for students to understand because the books generally are not well written. Offers solutions for how to use content textbooks and illustrates how lessons can be created through the integration of tradebooks and through discussions in which critical…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Content Area Reading, Instructional Effectiveness, Reading Comprehension
Henderson, Ilona – 1978
Students are exposed to a curriculum that primes both males and females for a sexist society. Picture books are the first reading materials to which young children are exposed. An analysis of award winning children's books reveals negative associations about being female. Sex role stereotyping is already operative at the prereading and early…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Content Analysis, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education
Matt, Stephen R. – 1983
To provide learners with the most reliable information, individuals and committees responsible for text selection examine texts for classroom use in steps. Since very few people have the specialized knowledge of all the technical fields like drafting, electronics, or graphics that make up the field of Industrial Arts, a committee is required to…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Evaluation Criteria, Industrial Arts, Postsecondary Education