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Are History Textbooks More "Considerate" after 20 Years?
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Berkeley, Sheri; King-Sears, Margaret E.; Hott, Brittany L.; Bradley-Black, Katherine – Journal of Special Education, 2014
Features of eighth-grade history textbooks were examined through replication of a 20-year-old study that investigated "considerateness" of textbooks. Considerate texts provide clear, coherent information and include features that promote students' comprehension, such as explicit use of organizational structures, a range of question types…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Textbook Research, Textbook Evaluation, Historiography
Reading across the Vocational Education Curriculum. A Practical Manual for Instructors.
Beal, Janice – 1982
Intended to address the problems associated with functionally illiterate students, this manual provides vocational educators with strategies for incorporating reading skills into specific content area instruction. The exercises stress the skills necessary to assess vocational classroom reading materials, develop content specific vocabulary, and…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, Context Clues, Inservice Teacher Education
Learning from Graded Readers.
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Wodinsky, Marilyn; Nation, Paul – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1988
A word frequency study of two graded readers and an unsimplified text indicated that graded readers facilitated better foreign-language reading and vocabulary learning than did unsimplified texts. It was found that students needed to read several same-level texts to master vocabulary, and that vocabulary mastery was not necessary for successful…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Readability Formulas, Reading Achievement, Reading Materials
Restructuring Teaching Strategies for Unstructured Basal Stories.
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Antonacci, Patricia A. Pierce – Reading Horizons, 1988
Identifies problems in basal readers caused by writers' use of vocabulary control and readability formulas. Provides suggestions for more effective employment of the basal reader, including suggestions on how to teach students to construct meaning from less than perfect texts. (ARH)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Readability Formulas, Reading Aloud to Others
A Framework for Evaluating Textbooks.
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Steinley, Gary L. – Clearing House, 1987
Suggests that those who evaluate textbooks for adoption in schools use a framework such as the one included, which examines writing style, tone, analogies and illustrations, sentence and paragraph coherence, headings and subheadings, and location of charts, graphs, and figures. (JC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cohesion (Written Composition), Illustrations, Readability
Basal Reading Series Cross-Reference Guide: Readability, Word Count, Readiness Skills, Word Attack Skills, Vocabulary Development, Comprehension Skills, Study Skills. Second Edition.
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Washington Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia. – 1983
This basal reading series cross-reference guide can help educators (1) place students transfering from another basal program; (2) select appropriate enrichment basal programs to satisfy school district policies; (3) identify and select reinforcement skill exercises from other basal programs; (4) identify basal reading materials with similar skills…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Readability, Reading Comprehension
An Evaluation of History Textbooks.
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Kinder, Diane; And Others – Journal of Special Education, 1992
Ten eighth grade U.S. history textbooks were evaluated with respect to factors such as readability level, global coherence, local coherence, questioning techniques, and vocabulary development. Findings indicated that texts had a mean readability level of 10.9; only 30 percent provided review of previous chapters; few offered introductory…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Grade 8, History Instruction, History Textbooks