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Compendium of Read 180® Research: 15 Years of Evidence-Based Results for America's Struggling Readers
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Scholastic 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
Insights into Fluency Instruction: Short- and Long-Term Effects of Two Reading Programs
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Schwanenflugel, Paula J.; Kuhn, Melanie R.; Morris, Robin D.; Morrow, Lesley Mandel; Meisinger, Elizabeth B.; Woo, Deborah Gee; Quirk, Matthew; Sevcik, Rose – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2009
The purpose of the study was to examine short- and long-term effects of two instructional approaches designed to improve the reading fluency of second-grade children: Fluency-Oriented Reading Instruction (or FORI; Stahl & Heubach, 2005) and a wide reading approach (Kuhn et al., 2006). By the end of second grade, children in the wide reading…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Grade 2, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
Should All Teachers Take More Reading Courses?
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Fry, Edward B.; Putnam, Lillian R. – Journal of Reading, 1976
Descriptors: Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
ENGLEWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOLS ELEMENTARY READING GUIDE.
ELEMENTARY READING COMMITTEE – 1964
THE IMPROVEMENT OF INSTRUCTION IN READING FOR EVERY CHILD IN THE ENGLEWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM WAS THE GOAL. TEACHERS OF INTERMEDIATE AS WELL AS PRIMARY LEVEL PUPILS WERE CONFRONTED WITH SEVERAL QUESTIONS--(1) HOW MANY OPPORTUNITIES ARE PROVIDED FOR EACH PUPIL TO EXPRESS HIS IDEAS IN A DIGNIFIED FRAMEWORK TO ONE OR TWO OF HIS PEERS, TO HIS CLASS,…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Materials, Language Arts, Reading Improvement
Reading Programs That Work: A National Survey. Second Edition.
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Latchat, Mary Ann, Ed.; And Others – 1975
This second edition contains descriptions of 29 diagnostic-prescriptive reading programs (K-12) for which some success has been demonstrated in the classroom as shown by statistical evidence of significant improvement of student learning. A four-page program profile matrix provides the reader with easy identification of the salient features of…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, National Surveys, Program Descriptions
HOW CAN READING BE TAUGHT TO EDUCABLE ADOLESCENTS WHO HAVE NOT LEARNED TO READ.
BOYLE, RUTH C. – 1959
A READING PROGRAM WAS STUDIED AND TESTED FOR MENTALLY RETARDED ADOLESCENTS WHO READ SIGNIFICANTLY BELOW EXPECTANCY. THIS REPORT REFLECTS AN ORIGINAL ATTEMPT TO DEVELOP AN EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM ONLY FOR THOSE EDUCABLES WHO HAVE NOT LEARNED TO READ. THIS PLAN WAS DISCONTINUED WHEN PRELIMINARY SCREENING REVEALED ONLY A FEW NONREADERS AMONG THE…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Background, Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis
A Cross-Age Reading Program: Building Fluency and Comprehension.
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Ramunda, Jeanne M. – 1994
A study was designed to examine the effectiveness of repeated reading in fluency and comprehension. A cross-age reading program was used to give students a purpose for rereading material. The children in a second-grade classroom in a private school in suburban New Jersey were randomly assigned to two sample groups. The experimental group read to a…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Grade 2, Kindergarten Children, Peer Teaching