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Vaughan, Joseph L., Jr.; And Others – 1978
Thirty-six students participated in a study of a program designed to help first-year medical students construct an ideational scaffolding as they attempted to understand their texts. They were divided into two groups: an experimental group that was given an instructional program on how to develop a hierarchical structure while reading, and a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Higher Education, Medical Students
Capobianco, E. Sharon; And Others – 1977
The focus of this manual is on the step-by-step development of certain study skills related to the mastery of content-area reading materials. An introduction includes discussion of goals, advice for organizing learning stations, guidelines for a general pretest of skills, a teacher checklist for evaluation of study-skill competencies, and…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Guidelines, Learning Activities, Reading Improvement
Download full textMain, Ray E. – 1978
The objectives of this study were to identify and evaluate strategies for organizing prose content that appear appropriate for real-life training applications. An analysis of prose passages in a typical high school science text identified three basic types of graphic representations: associative (AR), comparative (CR), and directed (DR). Once…
Descriptors: Adults, Content Area Reading, Diagrams, Instructional Materials
Coughlan, Georgiana F. – 1980
A twelve-hour spelling class was held over one weekend at California State University, Dominguez Hills. During this course, students were helped to discover their own spelling difficulties and were introduced to a wide variety of materials and strategies, including spelling nonsense words, effective dictionary use, vocabulary building, the study…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Higher Education, Instructional Materials, Morphemes
DAWSON, MARVIN; SPENCER, GARY D. – 1966
A CURRICULUM GUIDE PRODUCED AT AN INSERVICE TRAINING COURSE ON "PROBLEMS IN TEACHING READING" BY TEACHERS FROM CARROLL COUNTY SCHOOLS, GEORGIA, IN THE SPRING OF 1966 IS PRESENTED. IT OFFERS GENERAL MOTIVATIONAL READING ACTIVITIES WHICH PROMOTE GROWTH IN CERTAIN PROBLEM AREAS IN READING. RECOGNIZING THAT THERE CAN BE NO EFFECTIVE LEARNING…
Descriptors: Corrective Reading, Listening Skills, Phonics, Reading Comprehension
CARTER, HOMER L.J.; MCGINNIS, DOROTHY J. – 1967
THE FOLLOWING PRINCIPLES FOR CONDUCTING COLLEGE-ADULT READING PROGRAMS WERE IMPLEMENTED IN THE WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY READING PROGRAM--(1) THE TEACHER MUST STIMULATE, INFORM, AND GUIDE, (2) EVERY STUDENT SHOULD KNOW HIS OWN READING ABILITY AND SELECT FOR HIMSELF THE READING SKILLS HE NEEDS, (3) THE STUDENT SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT HE CAN…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Content Area Reading, Functional Reading, Independent Reading
Annacone, Dominic; Sinatra, Richard – 1979
Options are presented in this paper for the imaginative use of questions in content area study. An argument is made against the stereotyped use of questions to test factual recall and for the use of questions to expand instruction in content study to stimulate higher levels of thinking and learning activities. Suggestions and examples are provided…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education
Wotring, Anne Miller – 1980
An English teacher conducting research for a masters degree participated in a high school chemistry class and organized student journal writing in that class so that she could observe the effects of writing as a learning process. Based on the "thinkbook" writing that she and other classmembers did, especially two students who served as…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Discovery Processes, High School Students, High Schools
Wilson, Patricia – 1979
Research indicates that when taking a standardized test that is not timed, students who have been coached to revise answers profit more from their changes than do those who receive no instruction at all. Some study skill books written for high school and college students give misleading advice not to change answers while some newer editions are…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Materials, Objective Tests, Reading Teachers
Baker, Linda; Brown, Ann L. – 1980
The importance of metacognition to the process of critical reading is discussed in this report. Specifically, the report covers two areas of research: (1) reading for meaning, which involves the metacognitive activity of comprehension monitoring, and (2) reading for remembering, which includes identifying important ideas, testing one's mastery of…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Elementary Education, Metacognition
Salinger, Terry S.; Payne, Emily Miller – 1980
A study skills program is proposed to help students in developmental programs acquire the real learning process required for success in an academic setting. Based on a developmental, personalized theory of instruction, the program has a general planning and instruction procedure that contains the following three steps: (1) The study skills task is…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Developmental Studies Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged, Higher Education
Harris, Connie; And Others – 1977
This paper describes four Arizona schools' peer tutoring programs in reading and study skills for specific content areas. The first, at West High School, stresses training of tutors in self-awareness and specific teaching techniques. A special time is set aside for tutoring; a waiting list attests to the program's success. At Central High School,…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Peer Teaching, Program Descriptions, Reading Instruction
Mara, Patricia; Sorenson, Juanita – 1977
These 57 game cards were developed to help teachers build their resource files for word-attack skills. Cards are keyed to skills suggested by the Wisconsin Design for Reading Skill Development and are color-coded according to their appropriateness for children in kindergarten through grade three. The front of each card gives the name of the skill,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Educational Games, Phonics, Primary Education
Warren, Virginia B. – 1966
This handbook gives advice to the adult learner on such problems as effectively concentrating and listening, improving reading skills, responsibly participating in group discussions, and taking tests successfully. Also included are discussions concerning adults' learning processes and efficient study habits. Concluding chapters deal with the use…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Community Resources, Group Discussion, Learning Motivation
Grundin, Hans U. – 1974
This paper describes a research project which was designed to analyze the extent of functional literacy at different grade levels in Sweden. Functional literacy is defined here as the use of the mechanics of reading for different information purposes. A test battery was administered to 2600 students in grades six through twelve. The test battery…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Functional Reading, National Surveys, Reading Achievement
