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"tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE interviewed by Matt Aelmore" On March 15, 2014, my friend the composer/musician Matt Aelmore interviewed me for possible use for an online journal called Contemporaneity at the University of Pittsburgh where he's a student. At the time of the interview he was very busy with schoolwork & the deadline for the target issue passed. After that, we both let it slide & the management of the journal changed to people who were possibly less interested in...
Topics: tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Matt Aelmore, philosophy, neoism, Mail Art, the banality of pictures as...
This instructor's edition of a vocabulary textbook for college students, who read at the fifth to eighth grade level, features 25 chapters and teaches 250 basic words. The first and third chapters in each unit contain word-part practices. The second and fourth chapters in each unit contain synonym-antonym practices. The book's last chapter in each unit contains an analogy practice, review, and test. Also included is an answer key, a section on dictionary use, and a word list. The student...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Class Activities, Critical Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education,...
Connecting the separate worlds of literary theorists and literature teachers in higher education, this collection of essays by 20 college teachers shares their ideas about using theorists' concepts to turn undergraduates from passive receivers of information into active thinkers about meaning in literature. Following an introduction by James M. Cahalan and David B. Downing, essays in the collection are: "Reading from Inside and Outside of One's Community" (David Bleich);...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Critical Reading, Feminism, Higher Education, Introductory Courses, Literature...
This junior high school study guide supplements Gore Vidal's "Visit to a Small Planet." Included are quizzes (with answer keys) and teaching suggestions on the presentation of the opus, oral reports, reading comprehension, various acts of the play, vocabulary and word analysis, sentence patterns and tranformations, language usage, composition, allusion, theme, and character analysis. Also provided are a pre- and post-test with answer keys. The guide is designed to provide students...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Critical Reading, Drama, English Instruction, Junior High Schools, Language Skills,...
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كتاب " حداثة النَّصِّ الشّعري في المملكة العربيَّة السُّعوديَّة (قراءة نقديَّة في تحوُّلات المشهد الإبداعي) "، للناقد أ.د/ عبدالله بن أحمد الفَيْفي ، (النادي الأدبي بالرياض، 2005). • يقع في 215 صفحة . - حصل على جائزة (النادي الأدبي بالرياض) المحكَّمة، للعام 2005، في...
Topics: كتاب, حداثة النص الشعري في المملكة العربية السعودية,...
A study investigated the impact of a procedure called Thesis Analysis and Synthesis Key (TASK), which was embedded in a curriculum designed to help high school students read and write arguments. Subjects, 120 11th-graders in San Francisco were instructed in argumentation under 3 conditions. Their gains in the ability to read arguments were measured with adaptations of the Ennis-Weir Essay Test of Critical Thinking; their gains in the ability to write arguments were measured by holistic scores....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Grade 11, High Schools, Persuasive Discourse,...
Academic reading is different from other forms of reading because it is complex and discipline-specific. It involves a measured, challenging, and multifaceted process in which students are dynamically engaged with a range of reading strategies. Academic reading improvement is possible, provided students work on it and there are no short cuts or remedies which will cure the reading problems. Reading improvement is hard work and a difficult task, but it is rewarding as well. This study examined...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, College Graduates,...
The autobiography "I, Rigoberta Menchu" is a complicated text--the conditions of its production, the complexity of its subject matter, and the wide range of possible responses among North American readers create challenges for composition students and instructors. A week of taped interviews with Rigoberta Menchu, a Guatemalan Indian whose native language is a dialect of Quiche, yielded a 500-page text in Spanish, peppered with native Quiche terms. The text relating the atrocities...
Topics: ERIC Archive, American Indians, Critical Reading, Cultural Context, Foreign Countries, Higher...
The encouragement and formulation of a student's imaginative response to and "engagement" with literature and the concerns of the papers and summaries of discussions in this Dartmouth Seminar report. James Britton discusses refining the student's natural response to literature by developing his increased sense of form ("principally a sense of the pattern of events") and by encouraging wide reading together with close reading. D. W. Harding, in "The Report of the Study...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Critical Reading, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Figurative Language,...
This review of research on sexism in children's literature considers alternatives to the dilemma of whether to discard children's books that contain stereotypes or to risk bestowing those stereotypes on today's children. Among the issues considered are: the effect of sex-role stereotyping on a child's level of intellectual functioning; the relationship of children's literature to sex-role stereotypes; the either negative or one-dimensional portrayal of women in nursery rhymes, folk and fairy...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Childhood Attitudes, Childrens Literature, Critical Reading, Educational Research,...
A study was conducted to collect information on college students' perceptions of adjunct guide material used in conjunction with textbook reading assignments in history and philosophy courses. The three types of guide materials developed by history, philosophy, and reading department faculty were (1) selective reading guides--a series of instructor-devised statements to accompany a reading assignment and provide a model for selective reading; (2) graphic post organizers--visual diagrams...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Advance Organizers, College Students, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Higher...
A study examined whether the higher-order thinking patterns elicited by a reader response approach would carry over and become part of students' ways of thinking about literature, even in the absence of reader response prompts. Subjects were fourth-grade students (48 in all) in two intact, heterogeneously grouped classrooms in the same elementary school in a medium-sized, middle-class, southwestern community. Both teachers carried out the same reading curriculum: a basal reading program; a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Critical Reading,...
Basic theoretical assumptions support the contention that writing has an important role to play in the teaching of reading and learning processes. E. M. Forster focused on the product of writing as an embodiment of either finished or evolving thought, and Ann E. Berthoff emphasizes the capacity of language to generate itself and, in so doing, spawn additional thought. The term "epistemic" was coined by Kenneth Dowst to describe an approach to teaching writing that makes language the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Basic Writing, Cognitive Processes, Critical Reading, Higher Education, Language...
This unit of study involves high ability intermediate-grade students interacting with literature while enhancing reading comprehension and textual analysis skills. Students read literature and engage in shared inquiry to develop an awareness about the nature and importance of change, particularly as it affects people in various circumstances, times, and cultures. The literature selections serve as a basis for discussion, analysis, and interpretation. Students engage in writing activities not...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change, Computer Software, Content Analysis, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking,...
In the fall of 2014, students took the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) to help determine their level of readiness for college. The PSAT/NMSQT 2014 State Summary Reports summarize the characteristics, scores and educational plans of the Class of 2016 and Class of 2017.
Topics: ERIC Archive, High School Students, College Entrance Examinations, Critical Reading, Reading...
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Critical reading is a continuous process, only beginning in the first grade, which necessitates carefully planned training by qualified teachers. By building upon the student's competence in literal reading, interpretation, evaluation, integration of facts, accurate recall, and reorganization of materials, the teacher can develop the student's questioning attitudes to a point where the student will be able to evaluate his ideas against those presented, bringing forth a different and/or new...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cognitive Processes, Critical Reading, Lifelong Learning, Questioning Techniques,...
Resuscitating Charles Darwin's language from historians' emphatic denigration of the written word serves as an example to demonstrate what the English discipline can accomplish in recovering cultural heritage. Michael Ghiselin, an evolutionary anatomist, suggests that scholars must concentrate on the ideas, not the language, Darwin employed. Yet if words are separated from ideas, expression from content, then too much of the intellectual heritage is lost. A close analysis of chapter six of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College English, Critical Reading, Evolution, Higher Education, Language Usage,...
This column discusses the art of engaging text while reading. To read closely, students must get beyond impressionist reading. They must come to see that simply deciphering words on a page and getting some vague sense of what is there does not translate into substantive learning. Instead, they must learn that to read well is to engage in a self-constructed dialog with the author of a text. Really good reading requires close reading. It requires one to formulate questions and seek answers to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Reading Comprehension, Critical Thinking, Reading Processes, Critical Reading, Time...
In the fall of 2014, students took the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) to help determine their level of readiness for college. The PSAT/NMSQT 2014 State Summary Reports summarize the characteristics, scores and educational plans of the Class of 2016 and Class of 2017.
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Entrance Examinations, High School Students, Critical Reading, Reading...
A year-long interdisciplinary project sought to develop professors' available repertoire of strategies for guiding students' independent learning from texts and developing students' ability to learn from texts with adjunct guide materials in a minicourse setting. Adjunct materials included such instructor devised aids as study questions, graphic organizers of text concepts, discussion statements, and vocabulary guides. The guides emphasized critical reading of text concepts by including...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Higher Education, History...
A study examined the content and approaches embodied in seven popular high school literature anthology series, grades 7 through 12. The seven series examined consisted of 42 volumes with 1989 copyrights, stratified by grade level and by series. All selections in all 42 volumes were analyzed to develop a portrait of the content of literature courses as represented by the popular anthology series. A subsample of 350 selections was chosen for detailed analysis. Results indicated that: (1)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Anthologies, Content Analysis, Critical Reading, English Literature, Literature...
Suggesting that the United States' dominant form of literacy is contingent and historical, not permanent and absolute, this book asserts that when a society changes its definition of literacy, it also changes its models of mind and its models for teaching English. The book challenges the assumption that the public schools are a failure, arguing instead that public school teachers have met every literacy challenge put to them by parents and government. The book introduces a new standard of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Critical Reading, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, English...
This document reviews the experiences of College Bound, a joint four-year Boston Public Schools/Boston College enrichment and support program for multicultural, urban, public high school students. The program was designed to supplement the regular high school curriculum and was intended to refine basic skills, stimulate critical thinking and problem solving, motivate achievement, and raise the self-esteem, leadership, college, and career aspirations of participating students. The report notes...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, College Bound Students, College...
Many states have begun the process of developing or adapting English Language Proficiency (ELP) standards to align with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the forthcoming Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). This need stems not only from a desire to ensure that "all" students receive the rigorous and systematic education they need to graduate from high school as college and career ready, but also because states must have ELP standards aligned to college and career...
Topics: ERIC Archive, State Standards, Stakeholders, Instructional Design, English (Second Language),...
With the Common Core State Standards, instruction in English language arts will dramatically change. Unlike prior state standards, these new standards place a greater emphasis on reading challenging texts. To that end, teachers will need to support students in paying closer attention to such texts. Instead of focusing on pre-reading activities that often have little to do with the text and may inadvertently deprive students of the opportunity to enjoy reading, teachers--thanks to these new...
Topics: ERIC Archive, State Standards, Academic Standards, Language Arts, Reading Instruction,...
This study sought to develop and validate a programed instructional system to improve question-generating behavior in elementary school children in order to enhance reading comprehension. Materials were tested with individuals, groups, and entire classrooms; each tryout was followed by program revisions. Both criterion-referenced and standardized reading-comprehension tests were used to evaluate program effectiveness. Results indicated that the program did produce a question-asking set in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Critical Reading, Elementary Education, Program Evaluation, Programed Instruction,...
In her literature and composition classes, an educator encourages students to correlate their memory and imagination to the rhetorical elements of logos, pathos, and ethos and construct regenerative structures of knowledge through a comprehensive and objective understanding of a contextualized problem. She employs Bakhtin's dialogic method of "re-accentuation" in highlighting the importance of inter-active voices that disclose the complexity and the tension latent within the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Critical Reading, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Higher Education, Literary...
The skills listed in this booklet may form the base guideline for organizing the total school reading program or for individual classroom teachers. Several reasons are listed for constructing a reading program around a sequential listing of skills: (1) an orderly arrangement, (2) diagnosis, (3) blueprint for organizing flexible groups, (4) goal setting, (5) teacher's personal growth, (6) awareness of areas of reading instruction, (7) record keeping for students and teachers, (8) reporting to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Auditory Discrimination, Critical Reading, Individualized Instruction, Reading...
The purpose of this study is to verify the causal relationship between middle school students' critical reading skills, science literacy skills and attitudes towards science literacy with research data according to the default model. Through the structural equation modeling, path analysis has been applied in the study which was designed in correlational model. The sample of the study consists of 1170 students enrolled in 18 schools determined based on socio-economic status. However, the results...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Middle School Students, Critical Reading, Reading Skills, Scientific Literacy,...
A study investigated the effects of using topic-related pictures to build and activate readers' schemata as a means of increasing background knowledge and, consequently, reading comprehension. Subjects, two special education middle school students with low scores on standardized reading comprehension and vocabulary tests, were taught to interpret pictures that were topically related to reading passages. Findings showed that, after ten three-day sequences of pre-picture reading, picture study,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Advance Organizers, Cognitive Development, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking,...
Visual literacy--an increasingly important skill that has lately been added to the wide range of skills that reading/English teachers are expected to teach--can be coupled with lessons in literary appreciation through the medium of the adolescent novel. Since students participate in a great deal of television viewing, it is as important for them to learn critical viewing skills as it is for them to learn critical reading skills. Teachers can mesh lessons in literary appreciation and visual...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adolescent Literature, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, English Curriculum,...
Designed to assist teachers in small schools with the improvement of curriculum and instruction and to help smaller districts which do not have curriculum personnel to comply with Washington's Student Learning Objectives (SLO) Law, this guide contains curriculum materials for teaching reading in content areas to grades 9-12. The objectives listed are correlated to the Goals for Washington Common Schools and to broad K-12 reading program goals. The format consists of a sequential list of student...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Behavioral Objectives, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Curriculum Design,...
The ten lessons in this guide outline objectives and activities that will help gifted students to write intelligibly and creatively and to read with understanding and appreciation. Each of the lessons focuses on an aspect of literature, such as story line, building toward a climax, how plot is influenced by theme, characterization, tone, figurative and descriptive language, point of view, and the analysis of mystery stories. Lessons three through ten contain recommended reading lists...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Childrens Literature, Classroom Techniques, Creative Writing, Critical Reading,...
When a class of lethargic college students showed no enthusiasm for their reading assignments in English class, one instructor turned to drama. She assigned a collaborative script, and the students' enthusiasm and motivation relegated her to a "pleasant oblivion." She thought that the novelty of the play genre might enliven the class, and she had been reading that it would increase students' involvement to assign group projects and to make assignments creative and challenging. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Audience Awareness, Collaborative Writing, Cooperative Learning, Critical Reading,...
The aim of this research is to study humorous tales in "Masnavi" according to Lipman's views on "Philosophical thinking components". To achieve this goal, first, Lipman's components of philosophical thinking were identified and divided into three dimensions of critical, creative and caring thinking components. In the second part, using deductive analysis method and based on the theoretical framework provided in the first part, the triple components were identified and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Philosophy, Children, Humor, Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking,...
What happens when students become better readers? Cultivating deep reading habits in students to help them navigate disciplinary cultures respects student autonomy. Scholarly literature predicts that three linked practices improve student reading: practice with feedback, explicit in-class work on reading strategies, and disciplinary norm discussions. To see what happens when students engage in these practices, I studied two years of students in an American Political Thought (APT) course,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Critical Reading, Reading Habits, Reading Strategies, Reading Improvement, Feedback...
Critical language awareness refers to how conscious people are of the ideologies hidden in the language. A study was carried out to determine whether such a critical perspective towards text could be developed in an English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) context. This paper evaluates the results of the application of methods of critical discourse analysis to a context where the "analysts" are non-native speakers of English, who seem to take for granted the true validity of messages...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Critical Pedagogy, Critical Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second...
In the fall of 2014, students took the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) to help determine their level of readiness for college. The PSAT/NMSQT 2014 State Summary Reports summarize the characteristics, scores and educational plans of the Class of 2016 and Class of 2017.
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Entrance Examinations, High School Students, Critical Reading, Reading...
The papers for this proceeding reveal a variety of techniques and ideas for enhancing reading through literature. Lyman C. Hunt in "Literature and Learning to Read" discusses beginning reading instruction and some mistakes teachers commonly make, and reminds teachers that the primary objective should be to encourage reading and help the student realize self-improvement. Jean B. Sanders in "Black Literature for Children and Adolescents" encourages the use of good juvenile...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Literature, Creative Dramatics, Critical Reading, Individual Needs, Literature,...
This comprehension model defines and describes nine categories of comprehension, including word meanings, location/recall, translation, interpretation, prediction, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Each of the categories includes the following sections: highlights, containing a definition and questions; instructional objectives for kindergarten through grade twelve; a discussion of the topic; and learning activities for kindergarten through grade twelve. Also included are a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Behavioral Objectives, Comprehension, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Elementary...
"Six Steps of Argument Analysis" is a model for a critical thinking class which illustrates where and how the teacher can break off from the well-ordered sequence of critical thinking skills in order to provide occasions for each student to realize where he or she is making a judgment. Through use of this model the teacher can encourage the student to make judgments, to use these initial judgment makings as materials for discussion about an individual's art of judgment, and to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Context Clues, Critical Reading, Critical...
The functional literacy of various groups of 17-year-old students was assessed to discover whether the reading skills which are usually taught in the schools are adequate for functioning in everyday life. Eighty-six test exercises were classified according to the various formats of reading materials they represent and according to the types of behaviors they elicit. The highest expected level of performance was determined by the achievement level obtained by a group of superior readers on a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Criterion Referenced Tests, Critical Reading, Functional Literacy, Functional...
Reading teachers, novice or experienced, face the hard task of having to teach students how to read by moving beyond the mere "surface level" of reading (finding meanings in the text) into a more critical perspective (assigning meaning to what is being read). Many teachers struggle in trying to reconcile these two perspectives as they teach learners how to read. In addition, teachers also struggle with assessment, particularly as it relates to the expected outcomes of reading. Instead...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Critical Theory, Reading Instruction, Social Action, Critical Reading, Reader Text...
"MOBY DICK" IS SINGULARLY APPROPRIATE FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ITS PHILOSOPHICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND SOCIAL EMPHASIS. HOWEVER, TO GUIDE THE STUDENTS INTO THE THEMATIC INTRICACIES OF THE WORK, THE TEACHER MUST USE A CAREFULLY PLANNED, INDUCTIVE APPROACH THAT DEMANDS CLOSE TEXTUAL STUDY IN CLASS. ALTHOUGH EACH TEACHER SHOULD CONCENTRATE ON THE SECTIONS OF THE NOVEL THAT HE FINDS MOST EXCITING, THE FOLLOWING PASSAGES HAVE PROVED REWARDING IN DISCUSSIONS WITH STUDENTS--(1) THE FIRST...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, English Instruction, Interpretive Reading,...
An anonymous questionnaire was circulated among Harcum Junior College female students and students at six community colleges of the City University of New York (CUNY) in order to obtain answers to the following questions: (1) What do Harcum students read? (2) How well do they read? (3) What are their reading preferences? (4) What are their self-evaluated reading habits and skills? and (5) How do these compare with the skills and preferences of a sample of community college students? Responses...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Critical Reading, Questionnaires, Reading Habits, Reading Interests, Reading...
The methods of reading instruction used and the emphasis given reading within the total elementary school program depend on the attitudes of the school administrators and the teaching personnel. While reading is commonly defined as a decoding process, it is actually a complex process of word recognition, comprehension, critical or evaluative reaction to what is read, and fusion of newly acquired knowledge with previous knowledge and experience. Each of these components of the reading process is...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Attitudes, Critical Reading, Environmental Influences, Interpretive...
The fact that comprehension is a topic that ranges across many fields is shown by the variety of subjects and areas that are considered in this bibliography. Entries are arranged under the following eight sections: Cloze, Critical Reading and Creativity, Factors, Language, Readability, Skills, Theory, and Thinking. A few of the many articles published on the cloze technique, which now has a variety of applications in testing, in teaching, with the spoken word, and in linguistics among other...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annotated Bibliographies, Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension,...
A study explored students' dynamic use of various forms of reading and writing to learn. In investigating the relationship between learner initiative, literacy, and the ability to conduct a critical inquiry of a topic of study, seven college undergraduates were asked to direct their own reading and writing engagements enroute to composing a persuasive essay. The main sources of data for the analyses were video-taped work sessions, think-aloud protocols, persuasive essays that the students...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Protocol...
A technique sometimes known as patterned prose or case book exposition is an effective way to improve student writing while also holding their interest. It may also help solve a problem pointed to by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP): students' inability to think about what they read. The technique is simple. The teacher chooses the question, provides the information, and specifies the forms of the students' persuasive essays. First students are given an information sheet...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Models, Persuasive Discourse,...
