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ERIC Number: EJ415363
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1987
Pages: N/A
Abstractor: N/A
Reference Count: 0
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1046-3364
Improving Recreational Reading Habits: Using Entertainment Schemata to Make Predictions about Text.
Longman, Debbie Guice; Atkinson, Rhonda Holt
Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, v4 n1 p47-50 Fall 1987
Advocates teaching developmental students to apply the schemata they unconsciously use when choosing movies or television programs to select recreational books. Reviews six steps in surveying/previewing recreational books and three stages of diminishing teacher involvement in book selection. (DMM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Higher Education, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Attitudes, Reading Interests, Reading Material Selection, Recreational Reading, Remedial Reading, Teacher Role
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Schema
Note: Available from New York College Learning Skills Association, Developmental Studies Division, Community College of the Finger Lakes, Canadaigua, NY 14424 ($20.00 per volume).