Learning from Text Across Conceptual Domains

by Hynd, Cynthia; National Reading Research Center (U. S.)

• ISBN13: 9780805821840
• ISBN10: 0805821848
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781135452971
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-07-01
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Synthesizes NRRC research findings on the understandings held about learning to read. Focus is on middle and secondary classrooms though not exclusively.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Akcnowledgment	p. xi
Akcnowledgment	p. 1
Akcnowledgment	p. 2
Interdisciplinary Instruction In a Southeastern High School	p. 3
What Do We Mean By Knowledge and Learning?	p. 15
Akcnowledgment	p. 40
Motivation to Read And Learn from Text	p. 45
Akcnowledgment	p. 65
How Students Learn Content Knowledge	p. 71
Four Questions About Vocabulary Knowledge And Reading and Some Answers	p. 73
What is the Point? Tests of AQuick and Clean Method For Improving Instructional Text	p. 95
Akcnowledgment	p. 115
Literature's Place in Learning History and Science	p. 117
When Knowledge Contradicts Intuition: Conceptual Change	p. 139
Akcnowledgment	p. 161
Learning from Text in APost-Typographic World	p. 165
Making Text Meaningful The Role of Analogies	p. 193
Akcnowledgment	p. 206
Learning Disciplinary Knowledge	p. 209
Literacy, Textuality, and The Expert: Learning in The English Language Arts	p. 211
Akcnowledgment	p. 225
To Think and Act Like a Scientist: Learning Disciplinary Knowledge	p. 227
Akcnowledgment	p. 260
The Nature of Disciplinary And Domain Learning: the Knowledge Interest, and Strategic Dimensions Of Learning from Subject Matter Text	p. 263
References	p. 281
Author Index	p. 289
Subject Index	p. 299
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