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- Title
IMPROVING READING IN ELEMENTARY SCIENCE.
- Authors
Romberg, Hildegarde M.
- Abstract
The article highlights the importance of good reading skills and presents information related to elementary science which offers unlimited opportunities for improving the reading skills. Good reading skills are found mostly lacking in students as the instruction pattern concentrates on the means, and rarely achieves its end. Teachers are so occupied with fashioning and perfecting the tool, that its functioning in its major role is lost sight of. Therefore, in order to improve reading skills, science in the elementary schools offers unlimited opportunities for applying the reading skills. By determining children's weaknesses in reading and then using them as a guide to reading instruction, can result in better comprehension as well as improved science understandings. Students confront various types of reading problems in science. These include, problems related to number, to vocabulary, to understanding concepts, and to interpreting diagrams, charts and pictures.
- Subjects
READING; ABILITY; SCIENCE education (Elementary); ELEMENTARY education; STUDENTS; TEACHERS; COMPREHENSION; LANGUAGE arts; VOCABULARY; CHARTS, diagrams, etc.
- Publication
Science Education, 1944, Vol 28, Issue 5, p279
- ISSN
0036-8326
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sce.3730280508