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Cooter, Robert B., Jr.; Reutzel, D. Ray – Academic Therapy, 1987
The article describes the Direct Instruction Skills Plan, a comprehensive plan for direct and text-related reading skill instruction which places skill instruction prior to text reading. Steps include anticipatory set, objective and input, modeling, purpose setting and guided application, independent practice, checking for understanding, real-life…
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Mastery Learning, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedNessel, Denise – Reading Teacher, 1987
Describes a comprehension questioning strategy, based on R. Stauffer's Directed Reading-Thinking Activity, that enhances students' use of reasoning on the basis of prior knowledge. (FL)
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Prior Learning
Peer reviewedHawes, Kathryn S.; Schell, Leo M. – Reading Horizons, 1987
Concludes, among other things, that teacher-set prereading purposes in a basal reader directed reading activity have a definite value and should not be treated lightly nor implemented casually by teachers as they do seem to facilitate comprehension and that basal reader teacher guides should do a better job with regard to such purposes. (FL)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Educational Objectives, Primary Education
Peer reviewedValeri-Gold, Maria – Reading Horizons, 1986
Proposes an instructional model that uses a directed reading-thinking activity for teaching students to preview their textbook materials. (FL)
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedSaracho, Olivia N. – Educational Research Quarterly, 1985
In order to study the reading attitudes of preschoolers, 2,232 early childhood program participants from different ethnic groups were given the Preschool Reading Attitudes Scale. Factor analysis showed substantial loading in three categories: (1) Reading Books in General; (2) Reading Printed Material in School; and (3) Reading Books in the…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Beginning Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Factor Analysis
Peer reviewedCriscuolo, Nicholas P. – Catalyst for Change, 1984
Poses six unanswered questions in need of research that concern school reading programs. Questions address (1) advisability of a uniform sequential reading series, (2) relative effectiveness of materials, (3) generalists vs. specialists, (4) usefulness of workbooks, (5) permanent assignment of class reading texts, and (6) parental involvement. (TE)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Reading Achievement
Peer reviewedShore, Jack L. – Language Arts, 1976
By interrelating the arts of language through a variety of activities children can improve their attitude toward school and their academic skills. (JH)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Directed Reading Activity, Flexible Scheduling, Grade 4
Download full textKirkman, Grace; Shaw, Edward L., Jr. – 1997
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a comparative advance organizer in an oral format on learners' immediate and delayed retention of subject matter related to food and nutrition when controlling for learners' prior knowledge level. Another area of interest was to investigate whether paraphrasing the comparative advance…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Directed Reading Activity, High School Students, High Schools
Rivers, Wilga M. – American Foreign Language Teacher, 1973
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Language Instruction, Language Skills
Fitouri, Chadly – Prospects, 1972
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Group Reading, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Motivation Techniques
Ylisto, Ingrid – Elementary English, 1972
Teachers of reading must fully appreciate the two concepts of reading: (1) a skill acquired only through formal reading instruction, and (2) the result of a natural emergence of language development. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Individualized Reading, Language Experience Approach, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedEstes, Thomas H. – Reading Improvement, 1971
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Evaluative Thinking
Hanf, Marilyn Buckley – Elementary English, 1970
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Eye Movements, Pacing, Reading
Sartain, Harry W. – Reading Soc Setting, 1967
Lecture given before the Annual Conference and Course on Reading (23d, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., July 10-21, 1967).
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Behavior Patterns, Bibliotherapy
Peer reviewedLaConte, Christine – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Kindergarten, Northern Schools, Questionnaires
