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Direct linkCartwright, Kelly B. – Guilford Press, 2023
This pioneering book is now in a revised and expanded second edition featuring the latest neuroscientific knowledge and instructional strategies. Kelly B. Cartwright provides a teacher-friendly explanation of executive skills--such as planning, organization, cognitive flexibility, and impulse control--and their role in reading comprehension.…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Cognitive Processes
Ciullo, Stephen – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2015
Social studies instruction in upper elementary school (Grades 3-5) is important for building foundational content knowledge to equip students for the secondary school curriculum. Due to numerous school initiatives and demands on the time of teachers, social studies instruction can play second fiddle to reading and mathematics instruction, which…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Social Studies, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedStahl, Steven A. – Reading World, 1985
A framework developed to describe effective vocabulary instruction suggests that teaching methods can be described by the types of information they provide and the types of processing they require. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedCunningham, Pat – Reading Teacher, 1982
Reviews materials that teachers and students can use to help build knowledge of topics and word meanings that are essential to reading comprehension. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedSadow, Marilyn – Reading Teacher, 1982
Argues that basing comprehension questions on story grammar will help students develop story schema. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Questioning Techniques, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedPoostay, Edward J. – Reading Teacher, 1984
Offers suggestions on using underlining as a strategy to help students identify key concepts. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedStevens, Kathleen C. – Reading Horizons, 1983
Emphasizes that, in order to comprehend, a reader must chunk the many words of a sentence into meaningful groups of words. Offers suggestions for developing "thought units" in the upper grades. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Language Processing, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedWilson, Cathy Roller – Reading Teacher, 1983
Provides suggestions for activating prior knowledge, getting children to be aware when their comprehension is lagging, and tying it all together at the end. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Prior Learning
Peer reviewedJohnson, Barbara – Reading Horizons, 1982
Outlines seven basic concepts regarding teachers' understanding of the comprehension process and proposes several instructional strategies based on the concepts, each of which actively involves children in reading. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedWhaley, Jill Fitzgerald – Reading Teacher, 1981
Describes a story grammar, summarizes some results of story grammar research, and suggests instructional procedures for developing children's concept of story and story components. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedPauk, Walter – Reading World, 1983
Explains how a teacher taught his class the value of skimming in developing reading comprehension. (FL)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedMoldofsky, Penny Baum – Reading Teacher, 1983
Suggests that teaching schema that gives learners not details but a process for interpreting stories will produce results with carryover. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Learning Theories, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedDavidson, Jane L. – Journal of Reading, 1982
Promotes active involvement in the reading/thinking process, leading students to better retention and interpretation of text information. (AEA)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedFowler, Gerald L. – Reading Teacher, 1982
Argues that using story frames to guide students' responses to comprehension questions seems to help them provide better answers and to develop their independent comprehension skills. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Questioning Techniques, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedCarlisle, Joanne F. – Annals of Dyslexia, 1983
Fifteen exercises are presented that are intended to increase reading comprehension in seventh and eighth graders via emphasis on word recognition, language comprehension (syntax and semantics), and reasoning skills (including inference, analogies, relationships, and direction following). (CL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Junior High Schools, Learning Activities, Reading Comprehension
