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Greenewald, M. Jane; And Others – 1973
A study was carried out to discover if readers responded affectively to the connotative meanings of certain words and if better readers were more or less responsive to these connotations than were average or poor readers. A total of 120 students in five intact eleventh grade classes completed semantic differential scales to measure both individual…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Comparative Analysis, Critical Reading, Emotional Response
Download full textWOLFE, JOSEPHINE B. – 1967
AN ADDRESS FOR CLASSROOM TEACHERS IS PRESENTED WHICH CONSIDERS THE NATURE OF COMPREHENSION AND THE PROCESSES INVOLVED IN TEACHING CHILDREN TO COMPREHEND WHAT THEY READ. A REVIEW OF THE RESEARCH ON COMPREHENSION SINCE 1960 IS GIVEN. THE FOLLOWING TOPICS ARE DISCUSSED--THE PROCESS OF COMPREHENDING, THE KINDS OF COMPREHENSION, THE RELATIONSHIP…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching
Woodman, Leonora – 1981
Although the acts of reading literature and writing are closely linked, literature study and composition instruction remain distinct pursuits within college English departments. Style seems to be an interest that unifies the two pursuits. The most common view of style equates it with acceptable rhetorical and grammatical conventions. A second view…
Descriptors: College English, Critical Reading, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education
Hagaman, John – 1980
In addition to helping students revise thoughtfully by placing them in situations where revision matters, advanced composition instructors can use the complementary method of discourse analysis scales. These scales provide advanced writers with ample data for making decisions about revisions, and for identifying relevant semantic, syntactic, and…
Descriptors: College English, Critical Reading, Discourse Analysis, Evaluation Criteria
Thorndyke, Perry W. – 1977
The process of acquiring knowledge from texts is considered from two perspectives: the learning of the individual facts in the text, and the integration of the facts into a coherent representation reflecting relations among the facts. The former process is presumed to depend on the linguistics content of the text, while the latter process depends…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Critical Reading, Instructional Materials
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of General Education Curriculum Development. – 1976
Instructors can use this inventory to prepare high school equivalency students for the reading skills test of the new form of the Test of General Educational Development (GED). It replaces the instrument previously recommended for that purpose, the Iowa Tests of Educational Development (ITED). Fifty multiple choice questions test the ability to…
Descriptors: Classification, Critical Reading, Diagnostic Tests, Equivalency Tests
Carney, John J. – 1978
Teachers can help students develop effective content reading/study skills by manipulating the presentation of reading materials in such a way that students can see and internalize model behaviors associated with those skills. For example, teachers can augment paragraphs of content materials with short exercises in using context clues to infer the…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Higher Education
Mallett, Jerry J. – 1975
Over 100 simple, easy-to-make activities for building specific reading skills in six areas, readiness, sight word knowledge, phonetic analysis, structural analysis, comprehension, and critical reading, are presented for the elementary teacher to use as tools in individualizing reading instruction. Each game activity has been tested and complete…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Educational Games, Elementary Education, Individualized Reading
Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, Boulder, CO. – 1975
These resource papers encourage the student to discover for himself the contributions to a problem made through original literature. Since some of the papers are controversial or contradict one another, the student will need to evaluate them to determine his position. It is hoped that these papers will foster an appreciation of the work of the…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Critical Reading, Environmental Education, Ethics
Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, Boulder, CO. – 1975
These resource papers encourage the student to discover for himself the contributions to a problem made through original literature. Since some of the papers are controversial or contradict other papers, the student will need to evaluate them to determine his position. It is hoped that these papers will also foster an appreciation of the work of…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Energy, Environmental Education, Instructional Materials
Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, Boulder, CO. – 1975
These resource papers encourage the student to discover for himself the contributions to a problem made through original literature. Since some of the papers are controversial or contradict other papers, the student will need to evaluate them to determine his position. It is hoped that these papers will also foster an appreciation of the work of…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Environmental Education, Instructional Materials, Land Use
Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, Boulder, CO. – 1975
These resource papers encourage the student to discover for himself the contributions to a problem made through original literature. Since some of the papers are controversial or contradict other papers, the student will need to evaluate them to determine his position. It is hoped that these papers will also foster an appreciation of the work of…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Environmental Education, Instructional Materials, Resource Materials
Vance, Barbara – 1976
This paper describes the instructional design and development of a college critical reading course based on a prescriptive and systematic five-step design model derived from instructional psychology. Emphasis is on the first three steps of instructional design: instructional problem analysis, determination of instructional objectives, and…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Developmental Reading, Higher Education, Instructional Design
Feely, Ted – 1975
This study seeks to illuminate those characteristics of students which predict their performance in using evidence to test a hypothesis. The research is conceived as part of a larger investigative strategy for understanding the relationships among characteristics of students, characteristics of social studies thinking tasks, and characteristics of…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Multiple Regression Analysis, Predictive Measurement
Follman, John; And Others – 1970
The definition of critical reading and also the relationship between critical reading and critical thinking, reading, and scholastic aptitude and achievement tests were investigated. The Reading Comprehension Test; Test of Critical Thinking, Form G; Nelson-Denny Reading Test, Form A; Lorge-Thorndike Intelligence Tests, Form A; and Florida…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Processes, Correlation
