Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ452255
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1992
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Using and Sharing Ideas from Information Books in the Context of a Primary School Project.
Mallett, Margaret
British Educational Research Journal, v18 n1 p45-62 1992
Discusses how an understanding of how children learn can be used to teach them to read nonnarrative information books. Includes how to nurture reading of nonnarrative writing and text features that link with children's ability to learn. Concludes that spoken language reinforces student efforts to make sense of ideas being read. (DK)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Learning, Learning Activities, Oral Communication Method, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Speech Communication, Student Developed Materials
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (Great Britain)
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