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Peer reviewedCook, Harlan – Journal of Teacher Education, 1978
Sixth grade students with reading ability beyond their age group are offered the opportunity for an extended reading opportunity program directed by teachers, consultants, and specialists. (JD)
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Grade 6, High Achievement, Reading
Download full textBagford, Jack – 1972
This paper offers suggestions in the form of six guidelines on how the teacher can build toward reading maturity in the classroom. The first guideline urges the teacher to remember that reading necessitates a total complex thinking process, one which will prevent persisting at one level of instruction longer than is necessary. Secondly, students…
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Independent Reading, Language Experience Approach
Petre, Richard M. – 1971
The quality, quantity, and variety of pupil responses while using two different group directed reading activities, the Directed Reading Activity (DRA), and the Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (DRTA) were investigated in this study. The subjects, all fourth graders in two nearby communities, were grouped into above-grade-level, at-grade-level,…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Directed Reading Activity, Grade 4, Group Reading
Peer reviewedLevin, Beatrice J. – Reading Improvement, 1971
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Directed Reading Activity, Group Testing, Informal Reading Inventories
Polito, Theodora – Notes from Workshop Center for Open Education, 1975
A reading program was conducted with four students (grades 5-6) whose reading abilities were at the grade 2 level. The students evaluated children's reading materials to determine positive and negative features. Aspects of the program discussed are: approaching the group, design, process, bilingual aspects, rating system, and findings. (EC)
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Light, Timothy – Engl Lang Teaching, 1970
The author challenges the usefulness of the "reading-comprehension passage" in teaching English to speakers of other languages and suggests alternative methods. (FWB)
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, English (Second Language), Language Learning Levels, Language Tests
Taschow, Horst Gerard – 1969
A model of the decoding process as utilized in silent reading on the college level was reported. The model was conceptualized as a pyramid, whose apex represented silent reading comprehension. The body of the total reading model rested on the foundations of basic reading skills and higher-level reading skills which were followed by tentative…
Descriptors: College Students, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Models
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1977
The bulletin contains suggestions for secondary level social studies teachers to improve students' reading skills in social studies while at the same time enhancing the learning of social studies content. The materials can be easily adapted for elementary grades. Chapter one describes specific procedures for determining student reading levels.…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Secondary Education
