ERIC Number: ED270717
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1985
Pages: 543
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ISBN: ISBN-0-89859-776-5
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Reading and Learning from Text.
Singer, Harry; Donlan, Dan
Appropriate for teachers of any grade who want to teach their students how to read and learn from text, this book explains how to develop and use strategies that will enable all students to read and learn in the content areas without stigmatizing them. The book is divided into four parts. The first part explains the changing role of the school and the need for teachers and schools to shift from directing instruction toward college-bound students to teaching subject-matter to all students. The second part describes single-text strategies that meet the wide range of individual differences in reading and learning from text, and presents methods of teaching students to discuss in groups and to report to the class in a variety of ways, including in writing. The third part starts with an explication of a blueprint for instruction used in both single- and multiple-text strategies focusing on how the teacher phases out and the students phase in any strategy in reading and learning from text, and concludes with an explanation and application of multiple-text strategies in a phase out/phase in sequence in the content areas of English, social studies, science, and mathematics. The final part of the book focuses on the complementary role of the reading and learning-from-text specialist as a member of the faculty. (HOD)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Curriculum Development, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Change, Educational History, Futures (of Society), Individual Differences, Learning Strategies, Mathematics, Readability, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies, Sciences, Secondary Education, Social Studies, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition)
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers, 365 Broadway, Hillsdale, NJ 07642 ($24.95).
Publication Type: Books; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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