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Effective Procedures for Teaching Reference Study Skills.
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Cushenbery, Donald C. – Reading Horizons, 1979
Suggested activities for teaching students reference study skills include activities on locating, evaluating, classifying, and utilizing information. (MKM)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Dictionaries, Elementary Secondary Education
Principles for Establishing Effective Secondary Reading Programs.
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Cushenbery, Donald C. – Reading Horizons, 1979
Provides seven recommendations for an effective secondary reading program that will treat reading as a body of skills taught in all subject areas. (MKM)
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Content Area Reading, Individualized Instruction, Program Development
Building an Effective Remedial Reading Program for Secondary Students.
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Cushenbery, Donald C. – Reading Horizons, 1979
Offers guidelines for establishing a remedial reading program that will be useful and innovative and will meet the exact instructional needs of those students who need prescriptive help for overcoming deficiencies in areas such as word attack, comprehension, and study skills. (HOD)
Descriptors: Guidelines, Program Development, Reading Instruction, Remedial Programs
Expanding the Reading Interests of Secondary Students
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Cushenbery, Donald C. – Reading Horizons, 1978
Offers practical suggestions to aid secondary teachers in achieving the goal of wide reading for all students through evaluating students' reading interests, building reading incentives, and making book reviews profitable and useful. (GW)
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Interest Inventories
Effective Ways of Building Vocabulary in Every Content Area
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Cushenbery, Donald C. – Reading Horizons, 1978
Examines five types of vocabulary possessed by all learners and outlines methods for helping students build overall vocabulary abilities. (GW)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials, Teaching Methods
The Nature and Role of High School Reading and Language Competency Tests in Today's Society
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Cushenbery, Donald C. – Reading Horizons, 1977
Describes the reading problem and discusses the present status of competency tests in reading and language, each teacher's role and responsibilities, and the significance of competency tests in shaping curriculum and instructional patterns of the future. (JM)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Futures (of Society), High Schools, Linguistic Competence
Building an Effective Reading Program: Four Important Steps.
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Cushenbery, Donald C. – Reading Horizons, 1986
Describes steps that should be followed in building a reading program that meets students' needs and provides effective instruction in developmental, corrective, and remedial reading: (1) establishing desired skills, (2) undertaking a program of pupil evaluation, (3) initiating an appropriate teaching strategies curriculum, and (4) conducting…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Program Content, Program Development, Program Effectiveness
Dyslexia: The Real Issues.
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Cushenbery, Donald C. – Reading Horizons, 1981
Presents some historical trends regarding dyslexia, analyzes current definitions, outlines procedures for diagnosing the difficulty, offers a description of four techniques for dealing with the problem, and provides responses to three questions dealing with the real issues of dyslexia. (FL)
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Difficulties, Teaching Methods
The New Role of All Teachers for Improving Reading Skills (How to Survive with Less Title I Reading Money).
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Cushenbery, Donald C. – Reading Horizons, 1982
Offers a brief outline of the results that have been achieved in Title I reading programs, a discussion of the new role that teachers in all content areas must assume for improving reading skills, and a prediction about the future of Title I reading programs. (FL)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs