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Direct linkAnn C. Dean – Across the Disciplines, 2023
Scholars in college learning and writing studies have argued that reading has an image problem: we have trouble "seeing" it. This study contributes to making reading visible by collecting a series of images used by faculty and students enrolled in first-year experience courses. Qualitative analysis of interviews with five faculty and 34…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Reading Improvement, Reading Motivation, Reading Strategies
Votypka, Jean – Reading Improvement, 2018
Primary students who struggle to read need incentive to redirect their mindset back onto the productive path of daily reading. Reading is daunting to the youngest readers who experience difficulties because the act of reading is difficult and tiresome. Effective reading engagement programs motivate these readers to read on a daily basis and…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Reading Improvement, Reading Programs, Reading Difficulties
Shaw, Donita Massengill – Reading Teacher, 2013
The purpose of this manuscript was to describe information about an animal-assisted therapy, specifically the Reading Education Assistance Dog (R.E.A.D.) program. In this manuscript I provide information about R.E.A.D. programs in general. Next, I share perspectives solicited from R.E.A.D. participants, specifically teachers, parents, students and…
Descriptors: Animals, Therapy, Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness
Baskwill, Jane; Whitman, Paulette – 1997
This book offers a framework called Learner Support to help teachers, grades 1-6, identify and support children who need extra help in their reading development. During 15-minute, one-on-one sessions using real literature, teachers learn to help struggling readers use reading strategies, incorporate sight word review, complete cloze procedures,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Reading Difficulties, Reading Improvement
Download full textVenezky, Dick, Ed.; And Others – 1995
Developed by national reading experts for "reading partners" to use with children, ages birth to grade 6, this Spanish-language booklet presents activities that help very young children to get ready for reading and writing, and guide older children to expand their reading and writing interests and skills. The booklet has three sections,…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Early Childhood Education, Intergenerational Programs, Intermediate Grades
O'Brien-Palmer, Michelle – 1997
Intended for teachers of grades 2-6, this book offers methods to help students become lifelong readers. The book's instructions include emphasizing respect for the readers' choices of books and their own unique response to the literature. Information is intended to promote thoughtful analysis of what has been read and to validate readers'…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education
National Association of Elementary School Principals, Alexandria, VA. – 1998
This book is a collection of ideas submitted to the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) by elementary and middle school principals of 1996-1997 Blue-Ribbon Schools selected by the United States Department of Education. Each of the ideas presented offers a way for the teachers to raise students' reading levels and give them…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement, Learning Strategies
Ericson, Bonnie O., Ed. – 2001
This collection of essays aims to encourage high school students to improve their reading skills. The essays offer numerous practical teaching ideas for helping students increase their vocabulary and comprehension as well as learn to love the medium of books. Useful ideas revolve around issues such as: guided reading; independent reading; making…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Classroom Techniques, Critical Reading, English Instruction
Beers, Kylene, Ed.; Samuels, Barbara G., Ed. – 1998
Addressing the needs of English language learners, remedial readers, avid readers, gifted readers, dormant readers, reluctant readers, and readers in content areas, this book's goal is to help middle school teachers connect their students to reading. The book offers multiple lists of trade books that different types of middle school readers enjoy;…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Content Area Reading, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Gifted
