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Direct linkTunmer, William E.; Hoover, Wesley A. – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2019
This article presents an overview of a conceptual framework designed to help reading professionals better understand what their students are facing as they learn to read in alphabetic writing systems. The US National Reading Panel (NRP) recommended five instructional components for improving reading outcomes but presented these instructional…
Descriptors: Remedial Reading, Reading Difficulties, Prevention, Reading Teachers
Download full textWestEd, 2014
While community college instructors are experts in their academic or technical fields, most do not have training to help adults build postsecondary literacy skills. Researchers with WestEd's Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI) sought to change that. Building on SLI's popular and proven Reading Apprenticeship model for middle and high school…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Reading Instruction, Remedial Reading, Remedial Instruction
Mahapatra, Shamita – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Reading difficulties are experienced by children either because they fail to decode the words and thus are unable to comprehend the text or simply fail to comprehend the text even if they are able to decode the words and read them out. Failure in word decoding results from a failure in phonological coding of written information, whereas, reading…
Descriptors: Remedial Reading, Reading Difficulties, Children, Decoding (Reading)
Wanzek, Jeanne; Kent, Shawn C. – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2012
For students with learning disabilities, the upper elementary grades may represent a unique opportunity to provide successful remediation for lessening a reading difficulty and preventing students with learning disabilities from falling behind in other content areas. This article discusses effective reading interventions for students with learning…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Intervention, Reading Difficulties, Reading Improvement
Booth, Nancy M.; Gonzales, Carla L. – Principal Leadership, 2009
Many high school teachers and administrators think that reading instruction belongs in the lower grades. But according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, only 31% of eighth graders read at or above the proficient level, which means that many are entering high school unprepared for its advanced textbook reading and language…
Descriptors: Non English Speaking, Reading Instruction, Reading Improvement, Reading Programs
Peer reviewedHedrick, Wanda B; Pearish, Alice B. – Reading Teacher, 1999
Describes a supplemental pull-out program that helped struggling first graders become independent readers who could participate more successfully in their classrooms. Describes in detail how small groups of children were taught using a 30-minute "literacy group" format offering a fast-paced, tightly structured, and well-balanced instructional…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Instructional Effectiveness, Primary Education, Reading Improvement
Janicke, Eugene M. – Academic Therapy, 1981
An intensive reading clinic used the Massive Oral Decoding (MOD) technique to help 10 reading disabled students (grades 7 and 8) increase independent reading skills. MOD stresses large amounts of reading practice at the student's independent level. (CL)
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Oral Reading, Reading Difficulties, Reading Improvement
Builder, Philip – Australian Journal of Reading, 1980
Describes a remedial reading program that involves educational counseling of parents to help them in assisting their children to read at home. (HTH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Parent Counseling, Parent Role, Reading Improvement
Peer reviewedPinnell, Gay Su – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1993
Presents an excerpt from an observed 30-minute Reading Recovery lesson. Describes aspects of the Reading Recovery Program. Introduces the articles in this themed issue on learning, teaching, and learning to teach in the Reading Recovery program. (RS)
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Primary Education, Program Descriptions, Reading Difficulties
Brink, Steve; And Others – 1974
One of the programs included in "Effective Reading Programs...," this program is designed for those students who are reading below grade level. The program serves 500 ninth-grade students from a residential area of a large city. The students are predominantly white and from middle-income families. The objective of the course is to…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs
Peer reviewedWillman, Ann Teresa – Reading Teacher, 1999
Describes a summer reading program for 26 remedial readers in which each student left voice-mail messages on the school district's voice-mail system, either reading to the teacher for three minutes or summarizing a book chapter. Describes the teacher's responses and parental feedback and involvement. Notes that all students maintained their…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Elementary Education, Independent Reading, Parent Participation
Peer reviewedMeigs, Carolyn Beardsley; McCreary, Ruth Abernathy – Journal of Reading, 1992
Discusses the rationale and technique for using subtitled foreign films with an integrated language approach in a developmental college reading class. Reports student attitudes. Shows that the subtitled films motivated students to read, gave them good time on task, and improved their knowledge of other cultures and eras. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Foreign Language Films, Higher Education, Reading Attitudes
Peer reviewedSimmons, Deborah C.; Kuykendall, Kristen; King, Ken; Cornachione, Cheri; Kameenui, Edward J. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2000
This article describes the Schoolwide Reading Improvement Model and its stages and application in the primary grades of two schools. The model assumes that reading improvement requires a multidimensional intervention based on research and integration of curriculum, instruction, and assessment and must build on the conditions and contexts of the…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Integrated Curriculum, Intervention, Primary Education
Atlanta Public Schools, GA. – 1974
This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 1,200 students in K-5 at three elementary schools. Most of the students are black, live in the inner area of a large city, and come from low-income families. The program provides an opportunity for diagnostic treatment, remediation, motivation, and observation of each…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Improvement
Waukegan Community Unit School District 60, IL. – 1974
This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 2,400 junior high school students from middle- and low-income families. The program provides, for remedial purposes, one hour per day for instruction in reading, in addition to a period for language arts. Students' skill deficiencies are diagnosed at the beginning of the…
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Reading, Reading Achievement, Reading Diagnosis
