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Peer reviewedBlosser, Patricia E. – Science and Children, 1980
Described is a technique for the development of survival reading activity packets for the science classroom. The reading packets described include labels from different food and medicine products and from magazine and newspaper articles. Three types of questions were used with each packet: factual, interpretive, and application. (DS)
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Secondary Education, Functional Reading, Interdisciplinary Approach
Fade, P. – 1979
The student of English as a second language in the French school system is confronted with morpho-syntactic and lexical difficulties when he or she reads texts on the university level. In addition to these difficulties, the method of approaching the text may also prove to be a problem. A method is outlined to help the student achieve an active and…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Directed Reading Activity, English (Second Language), French
Download full textBaugo Community Schools, Elkhart, IN. – 1975
The objective of this project for kindergarten through fifth grade is to interest public and private educational institutions in the systematization of elementary school reading programs. Facets of Systems Directed Reading (SDR) include the use of a differentiated staffing pattern; experienced language arts unit leaders guiding and directing all…
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Program Descriptions, Reading Development
Direct linkKetch, Ann – Reading Teacher, 2005
Conversation is a basis for critical thinking. It is the thread that ties together cognitive strategies and provides students with the practice that becomes the foundation for reading, writing, and thinking. In recent years, proficient reader research has yielded information about what good readers do as they comprehend text. This article provides…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Reading Comprehension, Thinking Skills, Group Discussion
Erwin, Barbara K.; Mangano, Nancy – 1981
The Bryan Independent School District (Texas) has implemented a primary grade parent involvement program based on a home-partnership model and a contract of cooperation between the parents and schools. By signing the contract, the parents agree to (1) listen to their child read 15 minutes three days a week; (2) read a story a day to their child;…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship
Nichols, Carol, Ed. – 1980
By focusing on the accomplishments of the Colorado Right to Read Program, this report is presented with the intention of serving as a solution and/or stimulus for those searching for activities that will help them reach local educational goals and objectives. The various sections of the booklet contain the following: (1) a discussion of teacher…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communication Skills, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education
Woods, Carol; And Others – 1974
The purpose of this study was to assess the influence of parental participation in school on the assistance parents could give their children outside of the classroom. A Parent Involvement Program was developed in the Mesa, Arizona Title I schools to help raise the consistently low reading readiness scores of the kindergarteners in these schools.…
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Disadvantaged Youth, Intervention, Kindergarten Children
