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Pearson, Craig – Learning, 1980
The systems approach to learning used in the majority of classrooms today redefines reading as its component skills. Two different approaches developed by teachers to teach reading as the sum of its components are presented. (JN)
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Individualized Reading, Reading Achievement
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Au, Kathryn Hu-Pei – Reading Teacher, 1979
Describes how to help children comprehend what they read using an experience-text-relationship method of discussing and reading class material. (MKM)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Minority Group Children, Minority Groups
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Commeyras, Michelle – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1990
Presents a qualitative analysis of a transcript of a critical-thinking reading lesson designed for sixth grade students. The analysis illustrates the relationship between critical thinking and reading comprehension and demonstrates that critical thinking can be promoted in everyday classroom instruction using regular classroom materials. (JD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Class Activities, Critical Thinking, Directed Reading Activity
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Blanton, William E.; Moorman, Gary B. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1990
Investigates the amount of time teachers devote to directed reading activities and reading skills instruction; the amount of time devoted to components of each approach; and which instructional strategies are used in each approach and with what frequency. Finds that the majority of time allocated for reading lessons is devoted to reading skills…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Grade 4
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Sinagra, Marsha D.; Lopez, Kathryn – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 1990
Describes ARC (Associate=Prereading, Read=Guided Reading, Connect=After Reading), an instructional reading technique employing cognitive mapping or networking, based on the ability of students to utilize prior knowledge and assimilate new material. Describes the ARC procedure, provides a rationale for the technique, and reports observed results.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, College Students, Directed Reading Activity, High Risk Students
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Laine, Chester H.; Bullock, Terry L.; Ford, Karen L. – Educational Research Quarterly, 1998
The amount and type of reading instruction going on in middle school science classrooms were studied in middle school classes of four science teachers. About 16% of teacher time was spent in active reading instruction and about 33% in oblique reading instruction. Implications for increasing reading instruction in these classes are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Greenlaw, M. Jean; And Others – 1977
In this study, two different approaches to the teaching of reading were designed and presented over an eight-week period, then evaluated according to student scores on three standardized tests. After a pretest, nine first-grade classes were randomly assigned to one of three groups: literature, concept development, or control. In the literature…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Directed Reading Activity
Lucas, Christine W. – 1977
Twenty third-grade children, all of whom scored below 90% accuracy in word recognition and comprehension at grade level, served as subjects in an investigation of the effects on reading fluency of four attentional activities: repeating directions, listening to a story paced or stimulated at 225 words per minute while reading the story, learning…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Grade 3
Ryder, Randall J. – 1978
A successful content area reading program not only includes reading classes that teach specific skills, but also provides for the inservice training of teachers, offering activities that facilitate student reading comprehension in the content areas. For such a program to succeed, the financial commitment and time devoted to teacher training must…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Development
Cooper, Minna; And Others – 1964
This guide is designed to provide seventh-grade social studies teachers with materials needed to present instruction in reading skills and to teach those facts, concepts, and attitudes which are the aim of social studies education. Entries on the subject of New York State government and local government are arranged by topic, and material within…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Content Area Reading, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Guides
Cooper, Minna; And Others – 1964
This guide is designed to provide seventh-grade social studies teachers with materials needed to present instruction in reading skills and to teach those facts, concepts, and attitudes which are the aim of social studies education. Entries on the subject of early New York history are arranged by topic, and material within each topic is arranged…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Content Area Reading, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Guides
Starr, John W.; Brown, Don – Oregon ASCD Curriculum Bulletin, 1975
The selected activities in this bulletin are divided into three categories: games and strategies for primary grades, those for intermediate grades, and activities for the slow or reluctant learner. Among the activities and games contained in the first part are those which deal with: reading readiness; visual and auditory discrimination; concept…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension
Santeusanio, Richard P. – 1974
The major purpose of this study was to relate individual differences among selected Suffolk University freshmen to their ability to succeed academically through a reading study skills course which utilized a teacher-directed approach and a student-directed approach. The subject were 87 students from a freshman class who had graduated in the bottom…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Directed Reading Activity, Higher Education, Individualized Reading
Converse, Jerry – 1970
A description is given of a learning-centers program for classroom organization in which teacher-directed activities are minimized in favor of semidirected and learner-directed ones. Information concerning equipment and physical arrangement and references to sources describing motivational techniques for a listening center, a self-selection…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Classroom Techniques, Creative Writing, Directed Reading Activity
Frase, Lawrence T.; Silbiger, Francene – 1969
The incidental learning effects of discrimination which would be required in searching for and selecting related information in a text were explored. Sixty-one students from three educational psychology classes at Fairleigh-Dickinson University participated. Subjects were randomly assigned to four experimental groups and were given reading search…
Descriptors: College Students, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Discrimination Learning
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