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Download full textScholastic Inc., 2014
In school districts across the nation, diverse student groups have been experiencing significant gains in reading performance after using READ 180. This compendium of READ 180 research contains 40 studies. The studies take place in a variety of settings in school districts across the country from 1999 to 2012. Summarized are correlational and…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction
Direct linkZacamy, Jenna; Jaciw, Andrew P.; Lin, Li; Newman, Denis – Empirical Education Inc., 2014
In October 2010, WestEd's Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI) won an i3 "Validation" grant to scale up and validate the Reading Apprenticeship (RA) model in three core secondary content area classes: U.S. history, biology, and English language arts. SLI's proposal stated two goals. Goal 1: To transform academic literacy teaching and…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement, Reading Programs
Compendium of Read 180 Research: 16 Years of Evidence-Based Results for America's Struggling Readers
Online Submission, 2015
In school districts across the nation, diverse student groups, including English Learners and students with disabilities, have been experiencing significant gains in reading performance after using READ 180. This compendium of READ 180 research contains results of 40 studies conducted in a variety of settings, in school districts across the…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness, Reading Difficulties, Reading Achievement
Zacamy, Jenna; Newman, Denis; Lin, Li; Jaciw, Andrew P. – Empirical Education Inc., 2015
In October 2010, WestEd's Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI) won an i3 "Validation" grant to scale up and validate the Reading Apprenticeship (RA) model in three core secondary content area classes: U.S. history, biology, and English language arts. SLI's proposal stated two goals. Goal 1: To transform academic literacy teaching and…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Fidelity, Sustainability, Literacy
Zacamy, Jenna; Gray, Sophia; Jaciw, Andrew; Newman, Denis – Empirical Education Inc., 2013
In October 2010, WestEd's Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI) won an i3 "Validation" grant to scale up and validate the Reading Apprenticeship (RA) model in three core secondary content area classes: U.S. history, biology, and English language arts. SLI's proposal stated two goals. Goal 1: To transform academic literacy teaching and…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement, Content Area Reading
YVONNE, SISTER M. – 1965
A STUDY ON THE USE OF THE OCULARMOTOR TRAINER (O.T.) TO IMPROVE READING ACHIEVEMENT, BY LESSENING READING DISABILITY IN LEFT-TO-RIGHT DIRECTION AND RETURN SWEEP, WAS REPORTED. MATCHED PAIRS WERE ESTABLISHED OF 20 PUPILS WHO WERE RANDOMLY SELECTED FOR EXPERIMENTAL AND CONTROL GROUP ASSIGNMENT. THEY RECEIVED READING THERAPY FOR 15 WEEKS. THE…
Descriptors: Instructional Programs, Psychomotor Skills, Reading Achievement, Reading Difficulty
Lazich, Gilbert Stevan – 1974
The purposes of this study were to determine and describe the effects of using the work-attack element of the Wisconsin Design for Reading Skills Development (WDRSD) as an instructional management system for improving the reading skills achievements of pupils in K-3. The subjects for the study were 1,759 pupils in grades K-3. The dependent…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Kindergarten Children, Primary Education, Reading Achievement
Moore-Hart, Margaret; Karabenick, Stuart A. – 2000
A study examined how culturally diverse students increased their reading/writing performance through a structured volunteer tutoring program. Two university professors developed volunteer tutoring programs at six elementary schools in southeastern Michigan. Program objectives were to: (1) increase the reading performance of culturally diverse…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Diversity (Student), Elementary Education, Higher Education
Anderson, Clarence A.; And Others – 1970
This study reports the impact of the Flint Community Junior College (Michigan) reading improvement program on 150 participating students in terms of general group and racial sub-group (black and white) performance. After the groups were compared according to race and ability for data-collecting purposes, pre- and post-test measurements were taken…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Institutional Research, Program Evaluation, Reading Achievement
Claus, Richard N.; Quimper, Barry E. – 1988
The School District of the City of Saginaw, Michigan operates a compensatory education delivery system in reading and mathematics consisting of two programs, elementary and secondary Academic Achievement (A2). The program was designed to provide direct instruction to some 2,613 students in grades one through nine. The goal of A2 was to improve the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students
