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Data Meeting Model: "Developing Data Focused Pre-Service Teachers"
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Hoaglund, Amy E.; Birkenfeld, Karen J.; Bluiett, Tarsha – Reading Improvement, 2014
A seamless practice in most classrooms today is one of reading assessment as the tool that informs instruction. When data is used effectively, teachers can provide essential early intervention instruction to prevent reading difficulties from occurring. In most cases, data retrieved from various classroom assessments provide authentic student…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Data, Teacher Education Programs, Partnerships in Education
Left Behind but Not Forgotten: School Counselors' Ability to Help Improve Reading Achievement
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Edwards, Lawanda; Thornton, Parichart; Holiday-Driver, Necoal – Alabama Counseling Association Journal, 2010
Examined is an outlook of the achievement gap among African-American and White students in school settings. Statistics and other pertinent information are evaluated to demonstrate how this is a growing problem in schools. An exploration of how school counselors can meet the demands and recognize the effects the achievement gap has on…
Descriptors: African American Students, Reading Achievement, School Counseling, School Counselors
A High School Takes on Literacy
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Gewertz, Catherine – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2010
This article features Buckhorn High School in New Market, Alabama, where teachers weave literacy instruction across all content areas--with great results. Literacy is shot through everything at this 1,350-student school. It has been an obsession for a decade, ever since school leaders tested their students and found that one-third of entering…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Literacy, Reading Improvement, Reading Strategies
Efficacy of a Computer-Based Program on Acquisition of Reading Skills of Incarcerated Youth
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Shippen, Margaret E.; Morton, Rhonda Collins; Flynt, Samuel W.; Houchins, David E.; Smitherman, Tracy – Remedial and Special Education, 2012
Despite the importance of literacy skill training for incarcerated youth, a very limited number of empirically based research studies have examined reading instruction in correctional facilities. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the Fast ForWord computer-assisted reading program improved the reading and spelling abilities of…
Descriptors: Spelling, Reading Programs, Correctional Institutions, Reading Skills
A Pilot Study of the Efficacy of Two Adult Basic Literacy Programs for Incarcerated Males
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Shippen, Margaret E. – Journal of Correctional Education, 2008
The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of two adult basic reading programs, Direct Instruction Corrective Reading Decoding and Laubach Literacy, on the reading achievement of incarcerated male adults (n = 27) in an Alabama prison. Participants were tutors and students taking part in a reading tutoring program at the facility. The…
Descriptors: Corrective Reading, Reading Programs, Correctional Institutions, Reading Achievement
Translating Research Into Practice: The Alabama Reading Initiative.
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Mitchell, Katherine A. – Teaching and Change, 1999
Describes the Alabama Reading Initiative (ARI), which bases teacher professional development designed to improve student reading achievement on reading research. Members of the ARI reviewed the research and called for a balanced approach to reading instruction that focuses on the individual needs of each child. Explains how the ARI Plan is being…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Faculty Development, Reading Improvement