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"What Did the Author Say?" A Technique for Learning to Organize, Understand and Remember Ideas.

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Shrauger, Virginia Moore – 1975

Ideas to be understood and to be remembered must be organized. To organize ideas the reader must recognize the relationship of the parts of the ideas, to one another and to the whole. The reader with no orderly set of the ideas presented on the printed page cannot carry on a dialogue with the author and profit from the reading experience. What did…

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Instruction, Critical Reading, Directed Reading Activity

Directed Reading-Thinking Activity, Conceptual Mapping, and Underlining: Their Effects on Expository Text Recall in a Writing Task.

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Draheim, Marilyn E. – 1986

Secondary and postsecondary students who use the read-answer-discuss strategy while studying read ineffectively and do not comprehend or retain main ideas. A study examined the effectiveness of (1) the Directed Reading-Thinking Activity, (2) conceptual mapping, (3) a combination of those strategies, and (4) reading and underlining main ideas as…

Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Comparative Analysis, Concept Mapping, Directed Reading Activity