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Download full textMcKnight-Taylor, Mary – 1975
Presented is an evaluation of a program designed to provide intensive reading instruction to individual hospitalized, handicapped children in New York City. The project is noted to have served 375 children in 22 hospital settings and involved 32 teachers. Reported are findings indicating that approximately 92% of the pupils mastered at least one…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Handicapped Children, Hospital Schools
Peer reviewedTaylor, Betty Blayton – School Arts, 1979
Since 1942, New York's Children's Art Carnival has provided free creative art experiences to the city's children. Sensitive to the needs of some of its underpriviliged clients, it has developed remedial reading, youth employment, and outreach programs. This article is part of a theme issue on multicultural art programs. (SJL)
Descriptors: Art Education, Community Recreation Programs, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Turetzky, Lois E. – 1988
Designed to improve standardized reading scores, a structured reading program was implemented for third grade students at Community Elementary School 73 in the Bronx, New York City. From 1982 to 1987, this school ranked near the bottom of all New York City elementary schools in reading achievement, a ranking based primarily on results of reading…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Grade 3, Primary Education, Public Schools
Hennessy, James J. – 1976
The Ethnic Heritage Learning Center, designed to increase the reading skills of elementary students who are educationally and economically disadvantaged, is described in this paper. The major goal of the Center was to provide supplementary remedial reading instruction. In addition to the 250 students who were selected as a target group, the Center…
Descriptors: African Culture, Black Students, Cultural Activities, Cultural Awareness
BLYTH, JOHN W. – 1964
THE GREATEST PROBLEM FACING EDUCATION TODAY IS THE ERADICTION OF ILLITERACY IN OUR OWN AND OTHER COUNTRIES. TEACHING READING TO ILLITERATE ADULTS IS PRIMARILY A MATTER OF ESTABLISHING THE PROPER CORRELATION BETWEEN THE ELEMENTS OF THE WRITTEN LANGUAGE, WHICH ARE UNKNOWN TO THEM, AND ELEMENTS OF THE SPOKEN LANGUAGE ALREADY IN THEIR REPERTOIRE. THE…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Autoinstructional Aids, Beginning Reading
CROHN, BURRILL L. – 1964
ADULT ILLITERACY RESULTS FROM POVERTY, AND, MANY TIMES, SUPPRESSION. ILLITERACY IS SELF-MAINTAINING BECAUSE ILLITERATES CANNOT GAIN NEW KNOWLEDGE OR FULLY PARTICIPATE IN ECONOMIC, CULTURAL OR POLITICAL LIFE OF THEIR SOCIETY. THE PROJECT WAS AN ATTEMPT TO APPLY THE PRINCIPLES OF PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION TO THE TEACHING OF READING TO ADULT ILLITERATES.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Autoinstructional Aids, Beginning Reading
King, M. Sylvester – 1968
This report evaluates a Summer Teacher Training Institute in poverty areas in New York City. The program encompassed two distinct types of training: (1) the Reading Institutes, designed to train reading teachers for the elementary and junior high schools in disadvantaged areas, and (2) the Teacher-Training Institute, set up to train both…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Elementary Schools, Institutes (Training Programs), Junior High Schools
KRIPPNER, STANLEY – 1966
TEN PROGRAMS REVIEWED IN THIS PAPER ILLUSTRATE WHAT CAN BE DONE FOR CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED RETARDED READERS. THE MONTESSORI APPROACH EMPHASIZES INTRINSIC MOTIVATION AND USES SENSE-STIMULATING MATERIALS AND DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITIES FOR PERCEPTUAL AND COGNITIVE GROWTH. THE BANNEKER PROGRAM ENRICHES ITS INTENSIVE PRESCHOOL PROGRAM WITH EXPERIENCES…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Corrective Reading, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
CHALL, JEANNE S.; FELDMANN, SHIRLEY C. – 1966
THE PRIMARY INVESTIGATION CONCERNED THE EFFECT OF TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS, STYLE, AND INTERPRETATION OF READING METHOD ON PUPIL READING ACHIEVEMENT SCORES BOTH IN JANUARY AND JUNE IN THE FIRST-GRADE YEAR. AN ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE DESIGN WAS USED. FOURTEEN TEACHERS COMPLETED A QUESTIONNAIRE DESIGNED TO DISTINGUISH TWO BASIC KINDS OF BEGINNING…
Descriptors: Background, Beginning Reading, Classroom Techniques, Grade 1
Rosenblatt, Sidney M. – 1976
This report evaluates the the teacher training and tutorial program in reading in New York City. The program was designed to offer after school instruction in 13 elementary schools and 4 junior high schools. Three hundred ninety elementary school students and 120 junior high students in grades two through nine participated in the program. Tutorial…
Descriptors: After School Education, Elementary Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, High School Students
Calkins, Lucy McCormick – Instructor, 1997
Describes New York City teachers' emphasis on independent reading, with the rest of their reading curriculum growing out of needs identified during that time. They begin with mini-lessons, then create social supports for reading, make independent reading central and collaborative, reinforce what works, make time for solitary reading, and learn…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Independent Reading, Reading Attitudes
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment. – 1986
The 1984-85 Individualized Reading and Math Services Program in New York City provided supplementary remedial reading and mathematics instruction to eligible students in public and non-public schools. Students received individualized instruction from a remediation team consisting of a program teacher and a special education classroom teacher. The…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Instruction, Mathematics Instruction
Shore, Marietta S. – 1975
The Summer Remediation for Incoming Pupils Program was designed to provide remedial instruction in mathematics, reading, or English as a second language (ESL) to selected incoming 9th and 10th grade pupils in New York City. This report describes the program and evaluates its effectiveness for the summer of 1975. A major goal of the program was to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grade 10, Grade 9, High School Students
FROELICH, MARTHA; AND OTHERS – 1967
THE SALIENT CHARACTERISTICS OF A BEGINNING READING PROGRAM IN A HARLEM (NEW YORK CITY) ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ARE DISCUSSED. INDIVIDUAL PACING OF INSTRUCTION, ORAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT, THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF INDEPENDENT STUDY SKILLS, PERSONAL INVOLVEMENT OF EACH CHILD, AND FREQUENT STUDENT EVALUATION ARE INTRINSIC TO THE FUNCTIONING OF THE PROGRAM.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Schools, Experience Charts
HARRIS, ALBERT J.; SERWER, BLANCHE L. – 1966
THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE SKILLS-CENTERED APPROACH AND THE LANGUAGE-EXPERIENCE APPROACH TO TEACHING READING TO DISADVANTAGED URBAN CHILDREN IN THE FIRST GRADE WAS EXAMINED, AND METHODS COMPARED. APPROXIMATELY 50 TEACHERS AND 1,150 STUDENTS MADE UP THE PROJECT SAMPLE. TYPES OF DATA GATHERED INCLUDED PRETEST AND POST-TEST SCORES OF THE…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth
