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The Ability to Read Is the Gateway to Success. K-3 Reading
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Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2017
The goal of a Comprehensive K-3 Reading Policy is to establish intensive reading intervention for K- 3 students who are at risk of reading failure to help ensure they read on grade level by the end of third grade. The policy also requires third grade students to demonstrate sufficient reading skills for promotion to fourth grade. Retention can…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Reading Instruction, Intervention, Reading Difficulties
The Relationship between a Silent Reading Fluency Instructional Protocol on Students' Reading Comprehension and Achievement in an Urban School Setting
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Rasinski, Timothy; Samuels, S. Jay; Hiebert, Elfrieda; Petscher, Yaacov; Feller, Karen – Reading Psychology, 2011
Reading fluency has been identified as a key component in effective literacy instruction (National Reading Panel, 2000). Instruction in reading fluency has been shown to lead to improvements in reading achievement. Reading fluency instruction is most commonly associated with guided repeated oral reading instruction. In the present retrospective…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Reading Comprehension, Silent Reading, Reading Fluency
Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies. What Works Clearinghouse Intervention Report
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2007
Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS) is a peer-tutoring program. According to the developer's web site, it is designed to be incorporated into the existing curriculum with the goal of improving the academic performance of children with diverse academic needs. Teachers train students to use PALS procedures. Students partner with peers,…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Reading Instruction, Primary Education
Using an Interactive Singing Software Program: A Comparative Study of Struggling Middle School Readers
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Biggs, Marie C.; Homan, Susan P.; Dedrick, Robert; Minick, Vanessa; Rasinski, Timothy – Reading Psychology, 2008
Software that teaches users to sing in tune and in rhythm while providing real-time pitch tracking was used in a study of struggling middle school readers. The software, Carry-a-Tune (CAT) was originally developed to improve singing; however, since it involves a repeated reading format, we used it to determine its effect on comprehension and…
Descriptors: Matched Groups, Reading Comprehension, Singing, Reading Instruction
Visual Phonics: An English Code Buster?
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Woolsey, M. Lynn; Satterfield, Susan T.; Roberson, Len – American Annals of the Deaf, 2006
Visual Phonics is an instructional program to provide print awareness, alphabet knowledge, and sound-letter correspondence for children with hearing loss who experience difficulty developing a foundation of phonemic awareness skills. Its purpose is "to clarify the sound symbol relationship between spoken English and print" (Waddy-Smith…
Descriptors: Phonics, Speech Language Pathology, Phonemes, Partial Hearing
Improving Reading Comprehension of Basic Students by Orally Reading High Level Material.
Blacharski, Carol S. – 1985
This study examined the effectiveness of a program with three basic features--high interest plays, oral reading, and high readability level--designed to aid middle school students scoring two or more years below grade level in reading comprehension. Subjects, 13 boys and two girls enrolled in a basic English class in a suburban middle school…
Descriptors: Dramatics, Grade 7, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools