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Peer reviewedLehr, Fran – Reading Teacher, 1981
Discusses ERIC documents that deal with the negative influences television viewing exerts on reading achievement. (FL)
Descriptors: Influences, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction, Television Research
Peer reviewedGreene, Beth G. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1995
Presents a 15-item annotated bibliography of books, articles, and conference presentations published between 1991 and 1994 and abstracted in the ERIC database on the dilemma English teachers face--most students can read, but far too many neither read widely nor effectively. (RS)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, English Instruction, Postsecondary Education, Reading Achievement
Peer reviewedSensenbaugh, Roger – Language Arts, 1992
Provides a nine-item annotated bibliography of publications in the ERIC database related to literature and the language arts. Offers useful resources that satisfy a variety of professional needs. (MG)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Childrens Literature, Language Arts, Reading Achievement
Download full textSmith, Carl B., Ed. – 2003
This topical bibliography and commentary provides an overview of current thinking on the role of phonics in reading instruction. It discusses the value of phonics, phonics and phonemic awareness, the need for explicit instruction, principles in phonics instruction, and recommended instructional procedures. It concludes that findings from research…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Literature Reviews, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics
Peer reviewedCesarone, Bernard – Childhood Education, 1998
Summarizes recent ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) documents and journal articles that discuss issues related to children's age at entry into school. Includes details about ERIC and ordering ERIC documents. (EV)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Kindergarten, Outcomes of Education, Reading Achievement
Quatroche, Diana J. – 1999
Noting that the development of effective intervention programs and instructional strategies for the struggling or underachieving reader continues to be a topic of concern, this Digest first reviews the current status of reading performance, based on the 1998 National Assessment of Educational Progress. It then reports on the importance of early…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Intervention, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Peer reviewedSmith, Carl B. – Reading Teacher, 1988
Discusses the important role parents have in creating a positive reading environment. (MM)
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Elementary Education, Parent Participation, Parent Role
Peer reviewedGreene, Beth G. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1994
Presents an annotated bibliography of 12 research articles, all related to literacy assessment. Contains essays dealing with writing models, portfolios, and student performance in writing classes. (HB)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Higher Education, Literacy, Models
Peer reviewedGreene, Beth G. – Ohio Reading Teacher, 1991
Presents nine annotations of booklets and reports published in 1988 or 1989 and appearing in the ERIC database that offer suggestions to parents on the subject helping their children with reading, writing, and communication. (MG)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Elementary Secondary Education, Parent Participation, Reading
Sensenbaugh, Roger – 1989
This 30-item annotated bibliography of documents concerning reading assessment in elementary education from the ERIC database, dating from 1983 to 1988, includes documents which give an overview of recent developments in reading assessment, presents standardized tests and alternative measures (including Informal Reading Inventories), and deals…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Elementary Education, Informal Reading Inventories, Learning Disabilities
Gottlieb, Stephen S. – 2001
Public demand for improvements in education has motivated a search for guidelines as to what constitutes satisfactory public instruction and learning. One of the latest and most significant manifestations of this has been the efforts within the individual states to define and adopt adequate reading and English language arts standards. This digest…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Arts
Peer reviewedSchaudt, Barbara A. – Reading Teacher, 1983
Uses data from the ERIC system to review the practice of sustained silent reading. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Attitudes, Reading Improvement
Peer reviewedGreene, Beth G. – Ohio Reading Teacher, 1997
Presents annotations of eight books, journal articles, and research reports (published between 1991 and 1995) on the topic of helping underachieving readers. (RS)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Low Achievement
Peer reviewedHolbrook, Hilary Taylor – Journal of Reading, 1988
Explores sources on sex differences in reading achievement and presumed causes. Reports that explanations fall into two categories that are not necessarily mutually exclusive: physiological-maturational and cultural-societal. (NH)
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedLutz, Elaine – Journal of Reading, 1986
Presents a variety of parent programs, projects, and activities that have been successful in involving parents in their adolescents' reading and reading achievement. (HOD)
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Parent Influence, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship
