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Download full textHANSON, JOSEPH T. – 1967
SEX DIFFERENCES IN READING ACHIEVEMENT AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PHONOVISUAL METHOD OF READING INSTRUCTION IN GRADES 1 TO 3 WHEN USED AS A SUPPLEMENT TO THE STATE-ADOPTED CO-BASAL READING SERIES WERE STUDIED IN TWO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN PASADENA, CALIFORNIA. SUBJECTS IN THE EXPERIMENTAL SCHOOL (60 IN GRADE 1, 68 IN GRADE 2, 54 IN GRADE 3) WERE…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Instructional Materials, Primary Education, Reading Achievement
Mei, Dolores M.; And Others – 1986
The Degrees of Reading Power (DRP) Pilot Project was implemented at 13 New York City high schools during the 1985-1986 school year. The project involved training English Instructional Services (EIS) teachers in techniques for teaching reading holistically and then assessing the improvement on the DRP reading comprehension test. During the 1986…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Holistic Approach, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Effectiveness
Chapline, Elaine – 1979
The Environmental Education/Communication Skills program was designed to improve junior high school students' reading and writing skills. The key idea of the program was to motivate reading and writing improvement through environmental topic learning. Content focus areas were: orienteering, plant life, animal life, environmental problems, and…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Content Area Reading, Environmental Education, Junior High Schools
Martin, Peter B. – 1967
Results of the Nelson-Denny Reading Test are used as a screening device for selecting students for remedial work in the Reading and Study Skills Center (R-S) at New York Community College (NYCC). A descriptive analysis of the fall 1967 day session freshmen showed that the average freshman at NYCC was reading at the 12.6 grade level, or .4 grade…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educationally Disadvantaged, Evaluation Methods, Local Norms
National Italian American Foundation, Washington, DC. – 1983
The reading activities collected in this handbook were used in parent workshops organized to increase the involvement of parents of Italian descent in teaching their children reading skills. The goal of the lessons was to increase parents' activities directed toward reading skills and to familiarize parents with what their children were learning…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Critical Reading, Elementary Education, Home Study
