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Download full textSaccomano, Doreen – Texas Journal of Literacy Education, 2014
Close Reading is a strategy that can be used when reading challenging text. This strategy requires teachers to provide scaffolding, and create opportunities for think-alouds and rereading of text in order to help students become active readers who focus on finding text-based support for their answers. In addition, teachers must also be aware of…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Reading Strategies
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. – 1972
The National Assessment of Reading was not based on any one particular approach to the subject of reading. Its primary assumption was that information would help anyone who is interested in reading--regardless of his approach to the subject--determine for himself how well Americans read. The results of this assessment are reported according to a…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Decoding (Reading), Reading, Reading Ability
Davies, Joyce V. – Audiovisual Instruction, 1979
Describes two learning activity packages using printed words on commercial products for teaching children the major decoding skills of phonetic and structural analysis and the major comprehension skill areas of main idea, reading for details, sequence, determining cause and effect, drawing conclusions, and following directions. (Author/CMV)
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Learning Activities
Mellor, Bronwyn – 1999
This book, for grades 9-12, contains a wealth of ideas and practical activities for studying Shakespeare's "Hamlet." The first section, "Revenge Tragedy," provides background materials to help prepare students to read "Hamlet," including a discussion of revenge tragedies, comparisons to other plays from the period,…
Descriptors: Characterization, Class Activities, Critical Reading, Decoding (Reading)
Direct linkPace, David – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2004
In most disciplines, professors ask students to "read" without specifying what this operation means for their particular field. This chapter traces the path laid out in a cultural history class, where reading entails identifying the essential elements of a text. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: History Instruction, Student Motivation, Decoding (Reading), Critical Reading
Harste, Jerome C. – 1986
A study was conducted to identify strategies used by successful readers in comprehending and interpreting various kinds of texts. Seventy-three graduate students were asked to keep a journal (unedited and freely written) of what they were thinking as they were reading Umberto Eco's novel "The Name of the Rose." Selected journal entries…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Context Effect, Creative Thinking, Critical Reading
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1981
Designed to supplement the day-to-day planning, teaching, and evaluation activities of reading teachers at all educational levels, this compilation contains 689 citations of documents that appeared in "Resources in Education" from 1966 to 1980. The classification scheme reflected in the table of contents, developed from staff recommendations and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Beginning Reading, Content Area Reading
