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Direct linkClark, Brandi – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This qualitative narrative study explored the unique lived experiences of K-12 educators implementing the Alabama Reading Initiative (ARI), a professional development and reading intervention program in the Black Belt region of Alabama. The study involved purposeful sampling of 32 participants from 16 schools in that region, 8 schools excelling…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Qualitative Research, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction
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
Peer reviewedShippen, 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
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
Download full textAlabama State Dept. of Education, Montgomery. – 1974
This handbook prepared by the Alabama State Right to Read staff is intended for the use of local Right to Read directors. The book is organized around the three levels at which Right to Read operates--local, state, and national. "History of Right to Read in Alabama" discusses training of state staff, criteria for a successful reading…
Descriptors: Administrators, Criteria, Elementary Secondary Education, Guides
Whetstone, B. D.; Shelton, John – 1976
In August 1973, the Alabama State legislature resolved that from 1973 through 1978, the top priority goal for education in Alabama should be proficiency in reading. This report to the legislature summarizes the status of reading instruction in the 1973-1974 and 1974-1975 academic years, including special reading-related programs and both city and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Program Development, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement
