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Download full textBeck, Isabel L. – 1984
The following assumptions motivated this monograph's analysis of commercial based reading programs: (1) basals represent the state of the art in reading instruction; (2) to offer suggestions for improvement of instruction, existing practices must be understood in detail; and (3) information about instruction contained in the literature at large or…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Vocabulary, Content Analysis, Curriculum Enrichment
Beck, Isabel L.; And Others – 1979
Two of the most widely used reading programs in the country, the 1976 Houghton Mifflin Reading Series and the 1976 Ginn Reading 720 Series, are analyzed in this volume to determine the methods they suggest for teaching reading comprehension. Eight sections contain the following information: (1) a short description of some of the surface features…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Content Analysis, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education
Laurinen, Leena I. – 1988
Sentences are understood by outlining associative relations between the concepts representing the meanings of the words. When the words are received the activation spreads from their conceptual counterparts to the other concepts in memory, so that some implicit thoughts are often added to the mental representation of a sentence. As sentences are…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
