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Download full textLucariello, Joan M.; Butler, Allison G.; Tine, Michele T. – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2012
An innovative reading comprehension curriculum that recruits social cognition in the teaching of visualizing, making inferences, and literature concepts was created, thereby achieving the first aim of the research. The Reading Rangers (RR) program was based on three research-based learning principles that were relied on in converting reading…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Grade 3, Urban Education, Low Income
National Urban Coalition, Washington, DC. – 1975
The first section of this final report consists of a discussion of the production and dissemination of parents' kits and manuals, including a list of the number of manuals sent out and the people to whom they were sent. This section is followed by both a report on the pilot phase of the project, in which toys, books, or materials used in this…
Descriptors: Information Dissemination, Parent Participation, Program Evaluation, Reading
Peer reviewedBrown, Dorotha H.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1979
The relationship between three measures of locus of control and eight dimensions of reading attitude were investigated for a sample of inner-city children. Finds that inner-city children who are willing to accept personal responsibility for negative events in their lives also tend to experience more anxiety about their reading. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attitudes, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
Ellis, Allan B. – 1975
In order to discover whether there were any inner-city elementary schools in Massachusetts which were successful in teaching children to read, a two-year study was undertaken. Results of the study, reported in this document, showed that there is no one pattern for success but that there is a process by which schools, either alone or in…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Reading
Fisher, Janet Cameron, Ed.; And Others – 1981
Plenary selections include reports on the difficulties facing non-native English speakers who choose ESL as a profession, the strengths and weaknesses of university-based teacher-training programs, the language situation in the United States with concentration on TESOL and language in American life, the need for communication among the major…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Asian Americans, Bilingualism, Classroom Techniques
