Reading Curriculum & Instruction

Reading proficiently in all academic areas in vital. Time is wasted in reading content when meaning and understanding are lacking. Reading subjects matter involves comprehensing the vital facts, concepts and generalisations. Use and application needs to be made of ideas acquired. To compehend, word recognition skills need to be taught so that learners become independent in word recognition. Students need to identify the vital words so that comprehension of subject matter is an end result.
About Author :
Dr. Marlow Ediger is in the field of teaching, counseling, curriculum development and research over four and half decades in USA and abroad. He is member of several editorial boards of journals and examiner of various universities around the world. He had over 2500 manuscripts and books in education published on six continents. He is a popular speaker, writer and specialist in education. He has listed in 'Who's Who in America' and 'Who's Who in the Mid-West'. He has organised several conferences and participated in numerous programmes. Dr. Digumarti Bhaskara Rao (9-6-1957), M.Sc., M.A., M.A., M.Ed., Ph.D., a teacher educator with a university rank, has had his higher education from Andhra, Bhopal, Nagarjuna and Osmania Universities. He is author, co-author and editor of about 250 books that include 7 encyclopaedia and has published more than 400 research papers and general articles on science and education in India and abroad.
Contents :
Reading Across the Curriculum Scope in the Reading Curriculum Grouping for Instruction in Reading Staff Development and Reading Providing Leadership in the Reading Curriculum Psychology of Teaching Reading Supervision in the Reading Curriculum Reading Poetry in the Language Arts Reading in Technical Education Word Recognition Techniques in Reading Feeling Dimension in Reading Punctuation in the Reading/Writing Curriculum Listening and the Language Arts in the Curriculum Patterns of Thinking in Reading Preparing Teachers for the Teaching of Reading Hierarchical Versus Open-Ended Approaches in Reading Instruction Philosophy in Reading Instruction Reading Aloud in Children Improving Reading Comprehension What is Important in the Teaching of Reading? Teacher, Parents and Reading Classics and Adult Reading Interests Building Background Knowledge Background Knowledge for Students Reading Promoting Oral Communication Experiences