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Subject Index
Advance organizers, 228, 255, 265
Basal reading materials, 3, 41, 169, 171 -
172, 188
art work, 6 - 7, 22 - 23, 96 - 101, 189 - 190
beginning texts, 5 - 6, 21 - 22, 177
criticisms, 18 - 19, 27, 29 - 38, 45 - 111, 175,
187
teacher's manuals, 30 - 43
workbooks see Workbooks
Comprehension
educational implications of rhetorical ele-
ments, 169 - 171
instruction, 29, 31 - 34, 40, 289 - 294
application, 36
definition of, 31, 39
practice, 36 - 37
review, 35
teaching procedures, lack of, 292 - 294
listening, 4
prior knowledge, 8 - 9, 23, 213, 244 - 247,
260
processes, 4, 247 - 249
research, 42 - 43, 244 - 254, 271
strategies, 118 - 119, 275 - 276, 278 - 279,
291 - 292
Corrective feedback, 278
Instruction
comprehension see Comprehension in-
struction
directed reading lesson, 4, 12 - 15
purpose setting, 12 - 13, 25 - 26, 114 - 115
vocabulary, see Vocabulary instruction
Language
guidelines, instructional, 238
variation, 236 - 241
bilingualism, 236
dialect, 239
Learning variables, 273
Metacognition, 273 - 280
guidelines for instruction, 279 - 280
training, 276 - 279
Questions
after reading, 13 - 15, 26
phrasing mismatch, 267 - 268
self-questioning, 277 - 279
Readability, 121 - 137, 141 - 151
Readability formulas, 121 - 124, 135 - 137,
141 - 142, 165, 176, 189, 288
Reading methods texts, 47
Schema, 13, 109, 243 - 257, 259 - 271
acquisition and modification, 114 - 115,
118, 263 - 267, 270 - 271
activation, 260 - 267, 270
educational implications, 254 - 256
functions, 248, 260
theory, evidence of, 249 - 254
Text
adaptation, 176 - 190

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Publication Information: Book Title: Learning to Read in American Schools: Basal Readers and Content Texts. Contributors: Richard C. Anderson - editor, Jean Osborn - editor, Robert J. Tierney - editor. Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Place of Publication: Hillsdale, NJ. Publication Year: 1984. Page Number: 307.
    
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