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Peer reviewedLaSasso, Carol J. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1993
This article explains the relationship between the number and type of questions that readers with deafness have and their comprehension of the reading material. It describes intervention strategies that can be used to improve comprehension, with the goal of developing readers' abilities to read in a way to answer their own questions. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Deafness, Questioning Techniques, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedZigo, Diane – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2001
Presents a program that encourages struggling adolescent readers in a special education classroom to engage in the narrative mode of thinking when reading and interpreting texts. Notes that the results are promising, and there are implications for helping preservice teachers develop an awareness of narrative thinking. (SG)
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Difficulties, Role Playing
Download full textDickson, Shirley V.; And Others – 1995
Research-based instructional priorities for text organization and curriculum design are reviewed, with special attention to the needs of diverse learners. Research indicates that the physical presentation of text and text structure help students learn information in textbooks and reading materials. Students can apply their awareness of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Design, Instructional Materials, Reader Text Relationship
Peer reviewedPalincsar, Annemarie Sullivan; Brown, Ann L. – Remedial and Special Education (RASE), 1988
Listening and reading comprehension are seen as problem-solving activities, which require instruction in thinking skills. An instructional technique, reciprocal teaching, is conducted as a group problem-solving activity to teach remedial and special education students to predict, question, summarize, and clarify while reading and listening to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluative Thinking, Group Activities, Listening Comprehension
Peer reviewedGlazer, Susan M. – Journal of Reading, Writing, and Learning Disabilities International, 1991
This article reviews literature supporting the relationship of emotional factors and success in reading and writing activities, outlines physical and language behaviors that indicate emotional involvement with success or lack of success in comprehension, and presents strategies that help children understand what they need to do to read and write…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Development, Learning Strategies
Peer reviewedVenable, Gail Portnuff – Topics in Language Disorders, 2003
These exercises and examples pertain to readability information presented in preceding articles. They are designed to help speech language pathologists test their intuitions about word and text difficulty and to see readability data from a number of quantitative formulas applied to passages across a wide range of levels. (Contains 8 references.)…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Language Impairments, Readability
