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Direct linkAntoinette C. Halliday – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between participating in an online software application focused on phonological processing and working memory and outcomes on foundational reading assessment measures. The online software application utilized was the Sound Reading Program. Students began the intervention working in…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Phonology, Language Processing, Educational Technology
Morphis, Elizabeth A – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2018
This article focuses on a shift in the author's approach to teaching a literacy course to a coaching-based model after observing pre-service teachers "struggle" to implement the teaching practices during on-site fieldwork with a kindergarten, first-, or second-grade child partner. The author discusses how she provided more timely…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Preservice Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Literacy Education
Dussling, Tess M. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2018
While the research on effective early reading interventions for English language learners is expanding, the majority of the research focuses on students whose native language is Spanish. This study investigated the effects of a supplemental reading program that builds phoneme awareness skills and emphasizes explicit instruction in the alphabetic…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Instructional Effectiveness, Supplementary Education, Reading Instruction
Download full textWhat Works Clearinghouse, 2017
"Leveled Literacy Intervention" ("LLI") is a short-term, supplementary, small-group literacy intervention designed to help struggling readers achieve grade-level competency. The intervention provides explicit instruction in phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, reading comprehension, oral language skills, and…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Intervention, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction
Chung, Mi-Hyun; Keckler, Barbara – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2016
This paper will explain what a reading teacher learned from working with a group of first-grade struggling readers in a series of shared-book experience classes. The shared-book experience approach used a variety of science-themed books that were aligned with the first-grade curriculum and appropriate for beginning readers. Considering the…
Descriptors: Books, Scientific Literacy, Reading Difficulties, Reading Teachers
Kilpatrick, David A. – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2012
Despite extensive research on phonological awareness and reading, there has been little effort to study practical questions that would assist practitioners regarding the choice and interpretation of the phonological awareness tests available to them. This study examined the relationship between decoding (real and pseudowords) and three…
Descriptors: Phonology, Phonological Awareness, Grade 2, Grade 1
Spencer, Tamara – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2011
In recent years, researchers have called into question the efficacy of prescribed commercial curricula in early childhood classrooms (Genishi & Dyson, 2009). Despite these concerns, federally funded initiatives and such findings as those presented in the Report of the National Early Literacy Panel continue to promote scientifically based…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Literacy Education, Reading, Ethnography
Kates, Laura R. – Bank Street College of Education, 2011
Are teachers who are faced with mandated assessments more likely or less likely to explore their students' performance in depth and use their discoveries to enrich learning? This is the story of how six first-grade teachers in New York City responded to a mandated performance assessment--and how that response compared to a set of informal,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Performance Based Assessment, Program Effectiveness, Reading Instruction
Sterne, Phyllis – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine the issues of elementary teacher preparation for teaching literacy and teacher preparation for teaching literacy to diverse populations. This study contrasted primary teachers' literacy preparation and practice in high, middle, and low achieving and high, average, and low need schools in New York State.…
Descriptors: Evidence, Classroom Techniques, Preservice Teacher Education, Comprehension
Peer reviewedPaterson, Wendy A.; Henry, Julie Jacobs; O'Quin, Karen; Ceprano, Maria A.; Blue, Elfreda V. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2003
Presents the results of a one-year study of the effectiveness of the Waterford Early Reading Program on kindergarten and first-grade children in a large urban school district in New York state. Concludes that the Waterford program failed to outperform non-Waterford classrooms in part because it did not simulate or encourage the social…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Grade 1, Interpersonal Relationship, Kindergarten
Sheridan, Winifred L. – 1972
This study compared actual and recommended practices in reading readiness programs in kindergartens and first grades of New York State public schools as reported by classroom teachers and as advocated by chairmen of departments of early childhood and elementary education in the 54 teacher-training institutions in New York State offering…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Grade 1, Kindergarten, Preschool Education
LASHINGER, DONALD R.; SHELDON, WILLIAM D. – 1966
THIS STUDY EVALUATED THE EFFECTS OF A BASAL READER PROGRAM, A MODIFIED LINGUISTIC APPROACH, AND A LINGUISTIC READER PROGRAM AS MEASURED BY THE READING ACHIEVEMENT OF 469 CHILDREN IN 21 CLASSES AT THE END OF FIRST GRADE. ACHIEVEMENT COMPARIONS WERE ALSO MADE ON THE BASES OF (1) SEX, (2) INTELLIGENCE, AND (3) RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN READING READINESS…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1984
A continuation of a kindergarten manual, this guide to teaching first grade emphasizes the need for a classroom environment that is responsive to children's needs for concept development, language acquisition, and active exploration of the world. Use of learning centers is presented as a strategy for actively involving youngsters in their own…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Developmental Programs, Elementary School Curriculum, Grade 1
