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Hoffman, James V.; Baker, Christopher J. – 1980
Noting that the verbal interactions that transpire between teacher and student in the classroom setting are central to the instructional process, this paper offers reading teachers a systematic means of examining their own interactive patterns in the context of oral reading instruction. In addition, it provides teachers with a way of inspecting…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Elementary Education, Interaction, Miscue Analysis
Download full textStolte, Joanne B.; Smith, Shirley C. – 1980
A cost-effective, computer-based, Navy-related basic reading skills program was developed for United States Navy recruits reading below sixth grade level. The program, called Performance-Related Enabling Skills Training (PREST), is designed to enable recruits to improve their reading and study skills and, thereby, increase the probability of their…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Armed Forces, Computer Assisted Instruction, Functional Literacy
Harris, Albert J. – 1980
New treatments of reading disabilities have recently been developed. New medical therapies for reading disabilities link poor functions of the mechanism that controls balance and movement to reading disability and focus medical attention on diet as a cause of hyperactive behavior and learning disorders. These medical therapies are still…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Dyslexia, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Schmidt, William; And Others – 1979
Selection of language arts instructional content can be guided by the concepts of integration (the entwining of language arts content with other subject matter) and meaningfulness. Among the considerations pertinent to the curricular concepts of integration and meaningfulness are the question of whether something is acceptable content and the need…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Decision Making, Elementary Education, Integrated Curriculum
PDF pending restorationDefense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1976
The seventeenth of 20 volumes of lessons designed for use in a full-time, intensive training program in Arabic is presented. The lessons in this volume are concerned with increasing reading comprehension skills. Passages in both journalistic and literary style are reproduced. Various kinds of vocabulary building and reading comprehension exercises…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Arabic, Audiolingual Methods, Intensive Language Courses
Thornton, L. Jay – 1980
Divided into five sections, this review and synthesis paper provides vocational educators with an overview of issues involved in the relationship between basic reading skills and vocational education. The introduction discusses reading in vocational education as both a curricular or educational issue and as an occupational or employment-skill…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Content Area Reading, Integrated Curriculum, Job Skills
Hyman, Ronald T. – 1980
Suggestions are presented in this paper to help teachers improve their questioning about students' reading as one way to improve the teaching and learning of reading. The paper first outlines three areas in the teaching of reading--the symbol, comprehension, and pleasure areas--and notes that teacher questions should aim at development in all…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Literature Appreciation
Biestman, Margot – 1970
The discussion and activities in this booklet are designed to "tune in" language arts teachers to children's language so that they appreciate and respond properly to student language development. Chapter topics include responding to authentic/inauthentic child language, keeping records of children's spontaneous language and relating the words to…
Descriptors: Child Language, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Arts
Kruse, M. Ramona – 1979
The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of an instructional program in reading and language development in the content areas of science, social studies, and mathematics in grade two. An experimental group received formally prepared lessons in reading for twenty minutes per day for five weeks each, in science, social studies,…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Science
Robinson, Viviane; And Others – 1979
A study was conducted in South Auckland, New Zealand, to discover how parents could help children with reading difficulties. Specifically, the study addressed three questions: Do parents want to help improve their children's reading? Can parents learn specific reading tutoring skills? Does parent tutoring improve children's reading, both at home…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Home Instruction, Parent Role
PDF pending restorationCorwin, Sylvia; Mortensen, Erik – 1976
The Reading Improvement Through Art (RITA) program, an interdisciplinary approach to remedial reading that combines reading and visual arts activities, was evaluated in nine New York City high schools. A total of 240 students participating in the program were pre and posttested during the fall 1975 and spring 1976 semesters. The results of this…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Integrated Activities, Interdisciplinary Approach
KARLSEN, BJORN – 1966
AN AUTOMATED INSTRUCTIONAL SYSTEM WAS DEVELOPED TO TEACH BEGINNING READING TO HEARING IMPAIRED CHILDREN USING A NON-ORAL METHOD. INSTRUCTION WAS DONE WITH VISUAL PRESENTATION USING 35MM SLIDES ON A REAR PROJECTION SCREEN. THIS TEACHING MACHINE, THE HONEYWELL UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA INSTRUCTIONAL DEVICE (HUMID) WAS CONSTRUCTED WITH AN AUTOMATIC…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Children, Deafness, Exceptional Child Research
FROELICH, MARTHA; AND OTHERS – 1967
THE SALIENT CHARACTERISTICS OF A BEGINNING READING PROGRAM IN A HARLEM (NEW YORK CITY) ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ARE DISCUSSED. INDIVIDUAL PACING OF INSTRUCTION, ORAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT, THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF INDEPENDENT STUDY SKILLS, PERSONAL INVOLVEMENT OF EACH CHILD, AND FREQUENT STUDENT EVALUATION ARE INTRINSIC TO THE FUNCTIONING OF THE PROGRAM.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Schools, Experience Charts
SARTAIN, HARRY W. – 1967
CONCLUSIONS ABOUT INDIVIDUALIZED READING BASED ON INFORMAL AND CONTROLLED STUDIES ARE PRESENTED. RESEARCH INDICATES THAT THERE ARE NO HOMOGENEOUS CLASSES, ALTHOUGH VARIOUS GROUPING PLANS HAVE ATTEMPTED TO NARROW THE RANGE OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES. INFORMAL STUDIES BY SOME TEACHERS WHO HAVE TRIED INDIVIDUALIZED READING IN THEIR CLASSROOMS REFLECT…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Individual Reading, Individualized Programs
BERGER, ALLEN – 1966
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF FOUR METHODS OF INCREASING READING RATE, COMPREHENSION, AND FLEXIBILITY WAS STUDIED. TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE FRESHMEN AT SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SERVED AS SUBJECTS. TWENTY-FIVE LESSONS WERE GIVEN OVER A 6-WEEK PERIOD. SUBJECTS WERE TESTED IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING COMPLETION OF THE LESSONS AND AGAIN AFTER 8 WEEKS. THE METHODS OF…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Media, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension
