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The Use of Silent Reading in the Primary Grades.
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Mendak, Peggy Ann – Reading Teacher, 1986
Offers an outline of what research says about silent reading and comprehension. Presents suggestions to help children learn to read silently.
Descriptors: Primary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Research
Assessing Young Children's Literacy Development.
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Teale, William H.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1987
Points out that sound assessment programs should (1) be a part of instruction, (2) use varied methods and instruments, (3) focus on a broad range of skills and knowledge, (4) occur continuously, (5) occur in a variety of contexts, and (6) be appropriate for age and level of development. Offers examples of practices based on these points. (FL)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy, Evaluation Methods, Language Acquisition
A Technique for Teaching Students to Draw Inferences from Text.
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Poindexter, Candace A.; Prescott, Susan – Reading Teacher, 1986
Offers a metacognitive strategy for helping students answer inferential comprehension questions and a research-based rationale for its use. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Inferences, Metacognition
Progressive Cloze as a Remedial Technique.
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Riley, James D. – Reading Teacher, 1986
Presents a technique for remediating comprehension difficulties that is based on four principles of effective instruction that can be derived from comprehension research. (FL)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension
Expository Text Structure: Teaching and Learning Strategies.
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Piccolo, Jo Anne – Reading Teacher, 1987
Describes how expository text structure can be taught to students in fifth through ninth grades by using an adapted version of a process developed by McGee and Richgels. Contains daily lesson plans. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Learning Strategies, Reading Comprehension
The What, Why, How, and When of Comprehension Instruction.
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Baumann, James F.; Schmitt, Maribeth Cassidy – Reading Teacher, 1986
Presents a direct instruction approach to reading comprehension that stresses the use of three forms of knowledge--declarative, procedural, and conditional. Offers a sample lesson demonstrating the application of this approach for teaching a comprehension skill, and concludes with a discussion of how comprehension skill instruction in commercial…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Materials
The Global Method: Language Experience in the Content Areas.
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Sullivan, Joanna – Reading Teacher, 1986
Discusses the Global Method of reading instruction, which is used worldwide and which is based upon the belief that reading is a part of a language-based process, incorporating all of the communication skills. Examines its similarities to LEA, as well as its differences, and explains its advantages as a content area reading technique. (FL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Content Area Reading, Educational Theories, Elementary Education
Writing a No-Fault Narrative: Every Teacher's Dream.
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Piccolo, Jo Anne – Reading Teacher, 1986
Presents reading/writing units based on story grammar techniques and intended for students in grades one through six. (FL)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Educational Theories, Elementary Education, Language Usage