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Download full textLevin, Joel R.; Pressley, Michael – 1978
Prose-learning strategies are classified in this paper as prose-dependent (those that authors can use to optimize communication) or processor-dependent (those that learners can use to optimize reception) and are cross-classified as stage-setting (those that prepare the learner for upcoming prose information) or storage-retrieval oriented (those…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Comprehension, Educational Media, Elementary Education
Brown, Ann L.; Palincsar, Annemarie Sullivan – 1985
The first part of this report reviews an extensive series of studies concerned with the reciprocal teaching of comprehension fostering and monitoring strategies--an instructional method in which an adult teacher and a group of students take turns leading a dialogue aimed at revealing the meaning of the text. The studies reviewed indicate that…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities
Garner, Ruth – 1978
Adults use linguistic context to assist in understanding words that may have multiple meanings. However, elementary school children are not able consistently to use this method of clarifying ambiguity. Research has shown that a three-component training method can help upper elementary school students develop the use of linguistic context. To…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedEeds, Maryann – Reading Teacher, 1981
Presents eight ideas for classroom activities for improving reading comprehension, all of which are based on recent research findings. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedBaumann, James F. – Reading World, 1983
Presents a practical strategy for teaching reading comprehension that is based on current research and consists of five steps: (1) introduction, (2) example, (3) direct instruction, (4) teacher-directed and (5) independent practice. Provides sample lessons for each step. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities, Reading Comprehension
Direct linkAlmasi, Janice F.; Garas-York, Keli; Shanahan, Lynn – Elementary School Journal, 2006
This study examined how the report of the National Reading Panel (NRP) in 2000 might have differed if qualitative research had been included in their examination of text comprehension instruction. Electronic and hand searches yielded 12 qualitative studies meeting criteria for inclusion in the study. Each of the studies was read and coded to…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Teaching Methods, Logical Thinking, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedGalda, Lee – Reading Teacher, 1982
Reports on a study that compared drawing, discussion, and dramatic play as follow-up activities for reading aloud. Concludes that the children who played had better comprehension of the stories read to them. (FL)
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Learning Activities, Primary Education, Reading Aloud to Others
Andre, Marli E.D.A.; Anderson, Thomas H. – 1978
The main purpose of these two studies was to determine whether or not generating good comprehension questions while studying prose material was an effective study technique. In the first study there were two treatment groups to which the high school seniors participating in the study were randomly assigned: a questioning-with-training or a…
Descriptors: Ability, Content Area Reading, High School Students, Learning Activities
Guthrie, John T. – 1971
The effects of immediate and delayed feedback on perseverance and learning were investigated with a 3 x 3 factorial design. It was hypothesized that delayed feedback would reduce perseverance while immediate feedback would increase it. Subjects were 72 male college students, paid for participation. They read prose sentences and completed cloze…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cloze Procedure, College Students, Feedback
Peer reviewedBabbs, Patricia J. – Reading Teacher, 1984
Concludes that using a reading plan sheet and prompting cards helped fourth grade students increase their literal recall. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedYeazell, Mary I. – Reading Psychology, 1982
Indicates that including philosophical skills in the reading program of fifth-grade students led to improved reading comprehension achievement for both above and below average readers. (FL)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Grade 5
Peer reviewedHansen, Jane – Reading Research Quarterly, 1981
A prereading strategy designed to predict events and provide practice in answering questions requiring inferences between text and prior knowledge were used with elementary school students. The performance of experimental groups surpassed that of the control groups on some measures while results were mixed on other measures. (MKM)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Background, Cognitive Development, Grade 2
Schellings, Gonny; Aarnoutse, Cor; van Leeuwe, Jan – Learning and Instruction, 2006
In the present study, we examined the reading activities of young readers, while reading an expository text. A total of 24 third-graders was administered a think-aloud task on two occasions. Their protocols were analysed by a coding system that captured two levels of the reading process: the word identification level and the reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Learning Activities, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies
Kuhara, Keiko; Hatano, Giyoo – 1980
Given the general agreement that learning of texts is facilitated by learners using relevant concepts or schemata to subsume contents, a study was conducted to see if giving learners an advance organizer and requiring anticipation activity would help in the formation of new schemata and, therefore, result in the enhancement of learning. Subjects…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Higher Education, Instructional Improvement, Learning Activities
Hughes, Theone O. – 1975
The purpose of this study was to determine whether practice in transformational sentence combining will aid students' reading comprehension by giving them a large repetoire of syntactic constructions from which to draw when matching constructions contained in the materials they are expected to read. The first section of the document discusses the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 7, Learning Activities, Reading Comprehension
