Shell 1989

Shell, Olive A. 1989. "Review of 'Guessing: Reading as prediction' by Rosen, J. 1982." Notes on Literacy. Interest level: specialist.

Purpose for students with a minimal English vocabulary is

• to teach more effective reading skills
• to guess meaning from context
• to project possible results of a situation they are reading about
• to interpret situations, and
• to make judgments about people.

One aim is to help students overcome the habit of reading word by word. Encourages them to try to see the entire context of what they are reading about. Intersperses short story texts with exercises based on those texts. Exercises include

• meaning cluster exercises
• guess and guess again exercises, and
• test yourself exercises.

Also has questions for classroom discussion.

• Bibliography module: Shell 1989
• In overview module: Bibliography (Literacy): S
• In modular book: Bibliography (Literacy), by Doris Gallemore, Trudi C. Hunt, Jeanne Swanson, and Stephen L. Walter
• In document collection: Reference materials
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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