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Morrow, Lesley Mandel, Ed.; Morrell, Ernest, Ed.; Casey, Heather Kenyon, Ed. – Guilford Press, 2023
This authoritative text and PreK-12 teacher resource is now in a substantially revised seventh edition with 80% new material, foregrounding advances in inclusive, equitable instruction. Teachers are guided through every major component of reading, as well as assessment, motivation, teaching bilingual learners, strengthening connections with…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Inclusion
Ramos, Alani – ProQuest LLC, 2019
In a Southern state at a rural high school, leadership staff implemented phonics-based strategies with 9th grade English teachers to improve students' Lexile reading scores. The absence of formative data related to program implementation left stakeholders without a clear understanding of the influence of the phonics-based strategies. The purpose…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Phonics, Reading Instruction, Secondary School Students
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Lingo, Amy Shearer – Education and Treatment of Children, 2014
This study evaluated the effectiveness of high school tutors' implementation of "Great Leaps Reading" (Campbell, 1998), a reading fluency supplementary instructional program. The program consists of three sections: phonics, sight word phrases, and story passages. Daily 15-minute tutoring sessions involved repeated 1-minute timings of…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Tutoring, High School Students
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2009
The SuccessMaker[R] program is a set of computer-based courses used to supplement regular classroom reading instruction in grades K-8. Using adaptive lessons tailored to a student's reading level, SuccessMaker[R] aims to improve understanding in areas such as phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and concepts of…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension
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Edwards, Karen – Educational Action Research, 2008
This paper describes an action research project focusing on the effects of a phonics intervention on the reading fluency of high school students. Phonics instruction is normally associated with earlier stages of learners' reading development. If it is an effective tool for early readers, then it would seem that struggling readers at the high…
Descriptors: High School Students, Intervention, Reading Fluency, Phonics
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Devault, Rebecca; Joseph, Laurice M. – Preventing School Failure, 2004
The purpose of this article is to present the use of repeated readings with word boxes instruction with a sample of high school students who were classified with severe reading delays. Repeated readings and word boxes are designed to help children increase fluency and acquire word identification skills, respectively. These approaches were also…
Descriptors: Phonics, Reading Fluency, High School Students, Reading Difficulties
National Institute for Literacy, 2007
A growing research base on adolescent literacy supports an emphasis on direct instruction in the reading and writing skills needed to perform these more complex literacy tasks. However, many middle and high school teachers have little or no preparation for teaching these skills within their content-area disciplines and have few resources upon…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phonemic Awareness, Writing Skills, Reciprocal Teaching