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Peer reviewedGitelman, Honre F.; Rasberry, Gayle Burgess – Reading Teacher, 1986
Describes a contest in which students competed for book prizes. (FL)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Education, Motivation Techniques, Parent Role
Peer reviewedMcNaughton, Stuart; And Others – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1992
Describes a program that sends books home for parents to read to children in New Zealand. Reports on a study of classroom teachers and parents in 19 primary schools. Finds that, nearly all parents report participating, but there lacked a systematic communication between parents and teachers about instructional practices. (CFR)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Influence, Parent Role, Parent School Relationship
Download full textMiller, Wilma H. – 1995
A simple, but useful, handout given to mothers of young children can greatly increase the likelihood that they will present aspects of emergent literacy in their homes. The concept of emergent literacy states that all literacy learning begins in infancy and proceeds forward from that point, and that all of the literacy skills of oral language,…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy
Peer reviewedTopping, Keith – Reading, 1986
Describes and evaluates several methods for teaching reading that can involve the parent in the child's reading development. Concludes that a program involving paired reading in its purest form is the best method. (SRT)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Corrective Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education
Montebello Unified School District, CA. – 1985
Noting that some elementary school children may have difficulty learning to read using basal readers, this paper describes the successful implementation of the Big Books for Beginning Readers reading program in a California elementary school. The first section of the paper discusses the problems students were having with reading, including a lack…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Books
