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Howell, Helen – 1985
Many gifted children enter kindergarten already reading and in need of reading instruction that is different from the regular program. A reading program for gifted youngsters that is literature-based will help develop comprehension skills at the highest cognitive levels and will also foster the desire to read. Beginning with the interpretation of…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Childrens Literature, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking
Madden, Thomas R. – 1986
The literary theorist Terry Eagleton believes that literary study is the study of human discourse. To build on his idea for use in the classroom, it must first be assumed that literature constitutes a dialogue between the work (and its author) and the reader. The dialogue process can be introduced in a 2- to 4-week unit through a cluster of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Critical Reading, Dialogs (Literary), Discourse Analysis
Download full textCherney, Elaine E. – 1986
Noting that a major issue in education today is the concern about students' ability to read critically and to solve problems, this paper describes an analysis of five texts focusing on reading and learning in the content areas to determine what they had to say about critical reading and strategies for teaching critical reading--specifically,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading
Dwyer, Barry; Walshe, Bob – 1984
Noting that the school curriculum is in daily competition with the "alternative curriculum" of the popular media, this teacher's guide presents over 100 classroom activity units to bring purpose and critical interactions to children's encounters with the media. The first section of the guide presents a base for starting to…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Consumer Education, Critical Reading, Curriculum Development
Stevens, Robert J. – 1989
A study evaluated the effects of a 5-week study strategies program called RAVES (Read, Answer, Vocabulary, Examples, Share) designed to help intermediate students understand and recall information presented in expository text. Subjects, 156 fifth and sixth grade students enrolled in suburban Maryland science classes, read a section of expository…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Content Area Reading, Cooperative Learning, Critical Reading
Kelley, Delores G. – 1989
The Coppin Critical Reading Project at Coppin State College, Maryland is designed to help undergraduate students to become critical readers across a wide range of disciplines through the introduction of significant texts into the general education curriculum, through analysis of these texts from the perspective of the humanities, and through…
Descriptors: College Programs, College Students, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading
Newcastle, Helen; Ward, Barbara – 1985
If reading is to become a lifelong passion, teachers must strive to encourage in students a lifelong interest in reading, and to improve their literature appreciation and critical reading abilities. Research indicates that teachers must enrich the reading curriculum beyond the basic skills program if children are to learn to love to read. Such an…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Curriculum Enrichment, Elementary Education, Literature Appreciation
Brock, Lucy, Ed. – 1979
The reading improvement activities in this handbook are intended for use by middle school science teachers. Focusing on study skills, vocabulary development, and comprehension development, the activities include (1) surveying science texts and science content area reading materials, (2) outlining, (3) spelling, (4) syllabication, (5) word…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Junior High Schools
Abrahamson, Richard F.; Perry, Merrian – 1979
Visual literacy--an increasingly important skill that has lately been added to the wide range of skills that reading/English teachers are expected to teach--can be coupled with lessons in literary appreciation through the medium of the adolescent novel. Since students participate in a great deal of television viewing, it is as important for them…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, English Curriculum
Moirand, Sophie – Languages for Special Purposes, 1978
Regardless of the way in which one chooses authentic texts for a course in reading a language for special purposes, at one time or another, one is confronted with the problem of textual analysis. The analysis has to be done in view of the course objectives. A pre-instructional analysis allows the instructor to work out teaching strategies which…
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Comprehension, Critical Reading, Discourse Analysis
Workman, Brooke – 1979
Intended for use every day for a semester, this secondary seminar handbook provides a schedule, lesson plans, materials for classroom distribution, and a bibliography for a course designed to teach critical reading and basic writing skills through an in-depth study of Ernest Hemingway. Because the course requires that students write seven position…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Critical Reading
CAMPBELL, PAUL N. – 1966
THE BASIC PREMISE OF THIS BOOK IS THAT LEARNING TO READ ORALLY IS OF FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE TO THOSE WHO WOULD FULLY APPRECIATE OR RESPOND TO LITERATURE. BECAUSE READERS MUST INTERPRET LITERATURE ALWAYS FOR THEMSELVES AND OFTEN FOR AN AUDIENCE, THREE ASPECTS OF ORAL INTERPRETATION ARE EXPLORED--(1) THE CHOICE OF MATERIALS, WHICH REQUIRES AN…
Descriptors: Acting, Critical Reading, Dramatics, English Instruction
Iverson, William J.; And Others – 1968
This bulletin describes the nature and development of reading habits at elementary , secondary, college, and adult levels and offers suggestions for improvement. An appreciation of literary forms, taught in precise vocabulary, should be included in elementary instruction. The teaching of reading skills should be continued and developed in…
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Content Area Reading, Creative Reading
Gordon, Edward J., Ed. – 1965
The 18 essays in this volume originated as talks given at the Yale Conferences on the Teaching of English. The first nine discuss where and how to begin writing, the subject matter and organization of student compositions, the relation of writing to reading and grammar, methods used to mark papers, and the evaluation and function of both…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Critical Reading, English Instruction, Expository Writing
Squire, James R., Ed. – 1968
The encouragement and formulation of a student's imaginative response to and "engagement" with literature and the concerns of the papers and summaries of discussions in this Dartmouth Seminar report. James Britton discusses refining the student's natural response to literature by developing his increased sense of form ("principally…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Figurative Language
