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Peer reviewedFuchs, Lynn S.; Fuchs, Douglas; Compton, Donald L. – Exceptional Children, 2004
This study contrasts the validity of 2 early reading curriculum-based measurement (CBM) measures: word identification fluency and nonsense word fluency. At-risk children (n = 151) were assessed (a) on criterion reading measures in the fall and spring of first grade and (b) on the 2 CBM measures each week for 7 weeks and twice weekly for an…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Early Reading, Identification, Curriculum Based Assessment
Direct linkPalincsar, Annemarie Sullivan; Duke, Nell K. – Elementary School Journal, 2004
One of the most rapidly developing areas of educational innovation involves the texts available to young readers and their teachers, leading to a host of new issues regarding the characteristics and roles of text that support young children's learning. This article describes research conducted by investigators at the Center for the Improvement of…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Investigations, Educational Innovation, Young Children
Peer reviewedDurkin, Dolores – Urban Education, 1984
This study attempted to identify elements accounting for reading proficiency among poor Black children. The expectation that teacher's style was important was not supported. Important elements seemed to be early reading, family encouragement, teachers' positive expectations, and placement with other good students. (CJM)
Descriptors: Black Students, Early Reading, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Education
Slavin, Robert E.; And Others – 1991
This report summarizes research on the impacts of alternative early intervention programs to prevent school failure. Also considered are the magnitude of estimates of program effects and policy implications of using the programs. The nine principal types of early schooling programs reviewed are those involving: (1) substantial reductions in class…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Class Size, Disadvantaged Youth
Sasaoka, Taichi – 1990
Literacy materials are either for illiterate people or for neoliterate people (those who have attained limited literacy but might easily relapse if they do not practice reading with appropriate materials). Thirty-five kinds of prototype materials for neoliterate persons have been developed by the Asian/Pacific Joint Production Programme of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Developing Nations
Staiger, Ralph C. – 1990
Among those who share the responsibility for developing the reading habit in children are the child's family, schools, libraries, publishers, booksellers, and the mass media. There are many ways to read, just as there are many kinds of reading materials, including poetry and narrative stories. Some children read only to follow the plot, others add…
Descriptors: Discussion, Early Childhood Education, Early Reading, Foreign Countries
Dumont, Bernard – 1990
Post-literacy is all the means and activities that allow persons who have recently become literate to make use of their skills and to increase and deepen the knowledge acquired. There are many kinds of literacy. What they all have in common is the merciless test of the durability of literacy's effect: After 1, 2, or 5 years, what will the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs
