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Download full textNEGP Monthly, 1999
This issue of a monthly serial publication of the National Education Goals Panel (NEGP), which is available only online in PDF Format, examines efforts underway in Colorado, Maryland, and Montgomery County, Maryland to increase student achievement in reading (related to Goal 3 of the NEGP). After an overview, it discusses Colorado's efforts to…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Elementary Education, Professional Development, Reading Achievement
Nicholson, Tom – 1979
This report discusses techniques for analyzing children's responses to questions about stories as a means of improving reading comprehension. Various sections of the report discuss what knowledge it takes for a child to answer a question; types of questions that can be asked, including explicit, those requiring prior knowledge, and implicit; how…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Questioning Techniques, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
Glynn, Ted; And Others – 1979
This guide contains procedures that were devised for use by parents of primary and intermediate grade children who were several years behind in their reading. Topics discussed in the guide's eight chapters are: how to arrange a time and place for reading at home, how to select suitable books for the child to learn from, how to help the child be an…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Home Instruction, Parent Participation, Parent Role
Peer reviewedSchmitt, Maribeth Cassidy, Ed. – Literacy Teaching and Learning: An International Journal of Early Reading and Writing, 2001
This scholarly journal, an official publication of the Reading Recovery Council of North America, was established to provide an interdisciplinary forum on issues related to the acquisition of language, literacy development, and instructional theory and practice. Articles in Volume 5, Number 1 are: "Affinities and Contradictions: The Dynamics…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Early Intervention, Instructional Effectiveness, Literacy
Vaughan, Joseph L., Jr., Ed.; Anders, Patricia L., Ed. – 1979
This monograph is the fourth in a series of semiannual reports of research related to reading in secondary schools. The five papers in the monograph are concerned with the pedagogical and research implications of reading comprehension. Specific topics dealt with include (1) a phenomenological perspective on the reading process, (2) the role of…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Learning Theories, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
LAB Education Notes, 1999
This focused newsletter features articles about reading, reading research, and teaching reading. The newsletter's lead article, "The Challenge of Improving Reading," enumerates the problems that schools and families can encounter when trying to raise student performance in reading. Another article in the newsletter, "The Longest…
Descriptors: Brain, Elementary Secondary Education, Literacy, National Competency Tests
Simmons, Deborah C.; Kame'enui, Edward J.; Good, Roland H., III; Harn, Beth A.; Cole, Carl; Braun, Drew – OSSC Bulletin, 2000
Syntheses of reading research conducted by the National Research Council (1998) and more recently by the Congressionally-Commissioned National Reading Panel (2000) provide ample evidence of the skills, experience, and knowledge children need to become successful readers in an alphabetic writing system. This research makes clear that children must…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Intervention, Literacy, Models
Successful Reading Instruction: Reports and Recommendations from a National Invitational Conference.
Rohland, Mark, Ed. – LSS Review, 2002
Within the context of President Bush's Reading First and Early Reading First initiatives to improve early literacy skills for preschool children and reading literacy skills for primary children, a national invitational conference on successful reading instruction was held in Washington, DC, on November 12-13, 2001. It focused on determining how…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Literacy, Preschool Education, Primary Education
Literacy Teaching and Learning: An International Journal of Early Reading and Writing, 2003
This scholarly journal, an official publication of the Reading Recovery Council of North America, provides an interdisciplinary forum on issues related to the acquisition of language, literacy development, and instructional theory and practice. Articles in Volume 7, Numbers 1 and 2 (comprising volume 7) are: "The Why? What? When? And How? of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Instructional Effectiveness
Montoya, Colleen, Ed. – R&D Alert, 1999
This quarterly newsletter covers educational issues affecting schools in WestEd's 4-state region (Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah) and nationwide. This Summer 1999 edition contains a lead article entitled "Reading for Understanding: A Modern Urban Success Story," which describes a course in "academic literacy," developed…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Paraprofessional School Personnel, Program Effectiveness
Denton, David – Paths to Success, 1997
This paper states that the unequivocal goal that Governor George Bush has set for the state of Texas is that "all students should be able to read on grade level or higher by the end of third grade and continue to read on grade level or higher throughout their schooling." The paper explains that the governor identified eight key elements…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Literacy, Primary Education, Public Schools
Owoc, Paul, Ed. – Reporting on Reading, 1979
Focusing on class organization, this publication reports on ideas that might improve reading skills by providing better opportunities for all children. The various articles deal with the use of reading consultants in classrooms as an alternative to "pull-out" reading programs, flexible grouping for individualized instruction, and reading…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Classification, Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Instruction
Mikulecky, Larry, Ed.; Robbins, Ed., Ed. – Indiana Reading Quarterly, 1979
The eight articles in this publication focus on different approaches to reading instruction. Specific topics discussed include reading and the gifted child, teaching reading in a youth shelter, children's attitudes toward reading, teaching reading at the secondary level, secondary reading programs in Indiana, teaching test-taking strategies, the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Improvement
Good, Roland H., III; Kaminski, Ruth A.; Simmons, Deborah; Kame'enui, Edward J. – OSSC Bulletin, 2001
The importance of all children achieving adequate reading outcomes by the end of third grade cannot be overstated. Awareness is growing nationwide of the dividends of early reading success and the dire consequences of early reading failure. Schools need a prevention-oriented assessment and intervention system to prevent reading difficulties from…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Emergent Literacy, Evaluation Methods, Outcomes of Education
Literacy Teaching and Learning: An International Journal of Early Reading and Writing, 2002
This scholarly journal, an official publication of the Reading Recovery Council of North America, was established to provide an interdisciplinary forum on issues related to the acquisition of language, literacy development, and instructional theory and practice. Articles in Volume 6, Number 1 are: "Documenting and Developing Literacy in Deaf…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Deafness, Early Intervention
