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Download full textChiu, Chris W. T. – 1998
In this paper, meta-analysis is used to identify components that are associated with effective metacognitive training programs in reading research. Forty-three studies, with an average of 81 students per study, were synthesized. It was found that metacognitive training could be more effectively implemented by using small-group instruction, as…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies, Literature Reviews
Brandt, Mary; Isaacson, Kristi – 1998
This report describes a program for increasing reading motivation and comprehension. The targeted population consisted of two heterogeneous groups of fourth grade students who attended a public school located in a northwest suburb of a large metropolitan area. The students' lack of motivation and poor comprehension skills were documented by low…
Descriptors: Action Research, Childrens Literature, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Grade 4
O'Donnell, Michael P.; Wood, Margo – 1999
Providing a developmental perspective of literacy learning as a way to understand the literacy process, this book describes how children become skilled readers through the following five stages of the literacy growth process: emergent reading, initial reading, transitional, basic literacy, and refinement. Unlike most other literacy books which are…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Techniques, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education
Hertler, Linda – 1992
This practicum used a weekly tutorial program to improve students' written expression using precision teaching as a monitoring tool. Remedial children were referred for instruction by teachers, school psychologists, or parents. The practicum was based on the students' needs for a program strengthening writing mechanics and reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Creative Writing, Grade 6, Grade 7
Dwyer, Herbert; Igoe, Ann – 1992
Personalization of word problems in mathematics has been used to increase student motivation and comprehension. Similar techniques may be effective in other disciplines. In the present study computer techniques allowed integration into stories of personalized referents from an inventory of student interests. Stories were produced at three levels…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, High School Students, High Schools, Intermode Differences
McLellan, Hilary – 1992
A three-part exploratory study was conducted to examine children's responses to interactive, nonlinear HyperCard stories and the children's design of stories in HyperCard. Twenty-three fifth graders took part in a semester-long language arts training program that included HyperCard as well as traditional stories in books. Two questions were posed:…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Comprehension, Computer Software, Grade 5
Smith, Eric E.; Shen, Chung-wei – 1992
This study investigated the effects of English captioning used as knowledge of results feedback during English listening comprehension practice for Taiwanese students. A total of 72 college freshmen at National Taiwan Normal University--36 with above average and 36 with below average English reading proficiency--participated in the study, using an…
Descriptors: Captions, College Freshmen, Computer Assisted Instruction, English (Second Language)
Bonitatibus, Gary; Beal, Carole R. – 1992
Four studies investigated when children became able to detect that the words of a story could support multiple interpretations. Each subject saw two eight-sentence stories of each of four types (no-cause, unbiased, biased-proximal, and biased-distal), designed to support multiple interpretations. After reading or hearing each story, the children…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students, Grade 2
Wang, Chuming; Qi, Luxia – 1991
An empirical study is reported that investigated the relationship between first language (L1) and English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) reading in terms of efficiency, speed, and comprehension with Chinese university students of English as subjects. Results indicate that reading speed transfers readily from L1 to EFL readers for those who are slow…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Erwin, Barbara – 1992
A study addressed the relationship of culturally related schema to comprehension and examined the effect of instruction using thematic units upon the development of background knowledge. Subjects were 25 pupils (aged 8 to 10 years) enrolled in a primary school in Scotland and 21 students enrolled in a 3rd-grade class in Texas. Subjects listened to…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
Spivey, Frances Jane – 1992
A study compared the effectiveness of computer-assisted reading instruction to that of a direct teaching model. Nineteen adult male inmates from Windham School System's Ellis II Unit (located in Texas) special education classrooms served as subjects. The subjects were divided into two groups each of which spent one hour a day on reading. One group…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction
Baker, Isabel; Mulcahy-Ernt, Patricia – 1992
A study investigated whether expressive writing facilitated abstraction in language use, thereby improving reading comprehension. Ninety students enrolled in four required basic skills reading courses at a suburban community college in New Jersey were divided into a control and an experimental group. Students in the experimental group wrote…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, College Students, Expressive Language, Higher Education
Mississippi Materials & Resource Center, Gulfport. – 1986
This curriculum guide, designed for use with secondary migrant students, contains activities in the reading areas of structural analysis, literal comprehension, inferential comprehension, vocabulary, and reading in the content areas. Within these four broad areas, activities are presented in the following specific skill areas: (1) hearing…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Curriculum Guides, Functional Reading, Learning Activities
Weintraub, Sam, Ed. – 1992
This annotated bibliography summarizes approximately 600 reports of reading research identified between July 1, 1990, and June 30, 1991. The research studies described in the book are categorized into six areas: (1) summaries of reading research; (2) teacher preparation and practice; (3) sociology of reading; (4) physiology and psychology of…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Reading Attitudes
Johnson, Scott D.; Satchwell, Richard E. – 1992
A quasiexperimental study involved 18 male students enrolled in an aircraft systems course at the University of Illinois. The control group of 10 students studied 39 schematic diagrams of aircraft systems. The treatment group of eight students studied the same schematic diagrams plus conceptual diagrams of the systems. Otherwise, the instruction…
Descriptors: Aviation Education, Cognitive Structures, Comprehension, Diagrams
