DOCUMENT RESUME ED 366 927 CS 011 606 AUTHOR Guthrie, John T.; And Others TITLE Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction: An Integrated Curriculum To Develop Motivations and Strategies for Reading. Reading Research Report No. 10. INSTITUTION National Reading Research Centur, Athens, GA.; National Reading Research Center, College Park, MD. SPONS AGENCY Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC. PUB DATE 94 CONTRACT 117A20007 NOTE 40p. PUB TYPE Reports Research/Technical (143) EDRS PRICE MF01/PCO2 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Comparative Analysis; Grade 5; Instructional Effectiveness; Integrated Curriculum; Intermediate Grades; Program Effectiveness; *Reading Comprehension; *Reading Improvement; *Reading Instruction; Reading Research; *Reading Strategies IDENTIFIERS Education Consolidation Improvement Act Chapter 1; Prince Georges County Public Schools MD; Reading Motivation ABSTRACT A project designed and implemented a framework of conceptually oriented reading instruction to foster students' amount and breadth of reading, intrinsic motivations for reading, and strategies of search and comprehension. The framework emphasizes five phases of reading instruction in a content domain: observing and personalizing, searching and retrieving, comprehending and integrating, communicating to others, and interacting with peers to construct meaning. Instruction was implemented in .1 year-long curriculum with a multicultural population of fifth-grade students in a Chapter 1 school in Prince George's County,Maryland. Measures of learning suggested that students who had Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) for 4 months surpassed a comparison classroom in amount and breadth of reading and intrinsic motivations forreading. The CORI students gained significantly in the cognitive strategiesof search and comprehension during the 4 months. CORI instruction was contrasted to experience-based teaching and strategies instructionin terms of their support for motivational and cognitive development. (One table and six figures of data are included; 45 references are attached.) 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Guthrie Karen Mc Gough University of Maryland College Park Lois Bennett Calverton Elementary School Beltsville, Maryland DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATFON Office of Educational Research end unpfovernent EDUCATIONAL RESOURCESINFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) Ai/his clOCument has beenreprepuced as eceived from the person ororganization originating it 0 Minor changes have beenmade to improve reproduCtiOn quality Points Owe*, or opnions Stated inthis docu official ment do not necessarily represent OE RI positron or policy irt National ir Reading Research Center READING RESEARCH REPORT NO. 10 Winter 1994 BEST COPYAVAILABLE NRRC National Reading Research Center Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction: An Integrated Curriculum to Develop Motivations and Strategies for Reading John T. Guthrie University of Maryland at College Park Lois Bennett Calverton Elementary School, Beltsville, Maryland Karen McGough University of Maryland College Park READING RESEARCH REPORT NO. 10 Winter 1994 The work reported herein was funded in part by the NationalReading Research Center of the University of Georgia and University of Maryland. It was supportedunder the Educational Research and Development Centers Program (PR/AWARD NO. II7A20007) as administered by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Departmentof Education. The findings and opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect theposition or policies of the National Read;ng Research Center, the Office of EducationalResearch and Improvement, or the U.S. Department of Education. 3 NRRC National Reading Research Center Executive Committee National Advisory Board Donua E. Alvermann, Co-Director Phyllis W. Aldrich University of Georgia Saratoga Warren Board of Cooperative Educational John T. 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