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Grøver, Vibeke – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2016
This commentary discusses how the articles that comprise this special issue conceptualize what is required for reading interventions to change instruction. Three challenges to successful implementation are addressed: identifying institutional barriers to change, identifying intervention components that are not commonly part of the teachers'…
Descriptors: Intervention, Educational Research, Partnerships in Education, Reading Improvement
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Elleman, Amy M.; Compton, Donald L. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2017
Purpose: In this article, we respond to Catts and Kamhi's (2017) argument that reading comprehension is not a single ability. Method: We provide a brief review of the impact of strategy instruction, the importance of knowledge in reading comprehension, and possible avenues for future research and practice. Results: We agree with Catts and Kamhi's…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies, Reading Research
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Au, Kathryn H. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2013
Educational policy in the U.S. currently centers on college and career readiness, with the spotlight is on high schools to meet higher expectations for students' literacy achievement. Ever-rising expectations are consistent with the U.S. standards movement, now in its third iteration. As funding for school improvement becomes increasingly scarce,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction, High Schools
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Ambrose, Valerie K. – Roeper Review, 2011
This article presents an interview with Susan Mandel Glazer, past president of both the International Reading Association and the College Reading Association. Dr. Glazer received her doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania and her master of arts from New York University. Her most recent books are "Beyond the Looking Glass:…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Foreign Countries, Misconceptions, Reading Instruction
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Watts, Jeri H. – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2009
Teachers as Readers (TAR) is a strategy often recommended to engage teachers as active readers; participants share and learn in peer groups and then connect what they learn to their instruction of reading in the classroom. The idea is supported financially by a number of reading organizations. Reading is only one part of literacy--it is time to…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Improvement, Writing Improvement, Writing Workshops
Lesmeister, Michele Benjamin – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2010
Many adult students have basic reading skills, but they are inexperienced readers who need to learn skills beyond the basics to equip them for success in college and career. How do educators face such adults with optimism and an eagerness to help improve specific reading skills so that these students can read and understand a variety of materials?…
Descriptors: Technical Institutes, Reading Strategies, Apprenticeships, Adult Students
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Blachowicz, Camille L.; Fisher, Peter R. – Educational Leadership, 2004
Vocabulary is the hallmark of an educated person as it not only promotes reading comprehension but also enables to actively participate in the society. The four practices that teachers can use to expand students' vocabularies and improve their reading are presented.
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Development, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
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Ediger, Marlow – Reading Improvement, 1994
Argues that students need to achieve meaning from content area reading. Claims that comprehension of reading materials must be in evidence. Discusses various procedures designed to assist students achieve meaningful reading experiences. (HB)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction, Reading Material Selection
Cullinan, Bernice – Horn Book Magazine, 1986
Recounts the launching of the California Reading Initiative that was designed to improve reading instruction and provide students access to good books. Elaborates on the "living" list of about 1,000 books, divided in three sections, intended for classroom, independent, and middle school grade use. (JK)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Improvement
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DuBois, Diane; Stice, Carole – Reading World, 1981
Examines the nature of comprehension, specifically in the area of reading, and offers some techniques for teaching comprehension. (FL)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Elementary Education, Problems, Reading Comprehension
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Nweke, Ken M. C. – Reading Teacher, 1987
Describes efforts to promote the desire to read and the availability of materials for Nigerians who have already been introduced to reading. (FL)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Literacy, Reading Attitudes, Reading Habits
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Smith, Brenda A.; Merritt, King – Reading Improvement, 1994
Considers the effect that students' health status and the health conditions of the classroom might have on reading achievement. Provides a quick checklist by which teachers can measure these conditions. (HB)
Descriptors: Health, Higher Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement
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Koeller, Shirley – Reading Teacher, 1981
Points out some recurring ideas about the use of children's literature in the elementary reading program based on a review of 25 years of "The Reading Teacher." (FL)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
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Otto, Wayne – Journal of Reading, 1993
Discusses comments about and responses to an article on semiotics by Donald J. Cunningham in the June 1992 issue of the "Educational Psychology Review." Discusses the semiotic method of juxtaposition, juxtaposing a menace being posed to reading teachers with the menace experienced in W. W. Jacobs' classic ghost story "The Monkey's Paw." (SR)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
Kingston, Albert J. – Forum for Reading, 1990
Offers a brief history of college level reading programs from the 1920s to the present. Concludes that, despite past trials and errors, most established college reading programs appear to be in firm ground. (PRA)
Descriptors: Educational History, Higher Education, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
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