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Direct linkHendry, Helen – Literacy, 2020
Education policy in England requires student teachers to demonstrate effective teaching of early reading, including systematic synthetic phonics, in order to qualify to teach. Although there is a range of literature about initial teacher education, little is documented about how pre-service or 'student' teachers develop specific knowledge and…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Reading Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries
Hill, Susan – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
Large-scale standardised, early reading assessments abound at the international and national levels, but research into urgent problems facing practitioners remains scarce. Practice-inspired research involves university-researchers in partnership with teacher-researchers undertaking high-quality research to provide relevant and useful knowledge.…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Educational Practices, Educational Research, Case Studies
Hall, Christine; Jones, Susan – Literacy, 2016
In this paper, we present a case study of a philanthropic literacy initiative, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, a book-gifting scheme for under 5s, and consider the impact of the scheme on literacy policy in the English city where it was introduced. We bring four lenses to bear on the case study. First, we analyse the operation of the scheme in…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Case Studies
Wolfe, Sylvia Carol – Education 3-13, 2015
This article examines the debates around the teaching of early reading and explores the possible consequences of policy recommendations for teachers' knowledge and understanding of effective pedagogic practices. These include teachers' abilities to adapt patterns of talk (pedagogic discourses) to respond to individual needs and the aims of…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Reading Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Educational Practices
Clark, Margaret M. – Improving Schools, 2016
This article presents an overview of literacy teaching and learning, based on the author's extensive research and, in particular, the recently revised and extended "Learning to be Literate: Insights from Research for Policy and Practice" (Routledge, 2016). It is set against a background in England in which government policy dictates…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Literacy
Norling, Martina – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
This study aims to investigate preschool staff's view of emergent literacy approaches in Swedish preschools with the following research question: How do preschool staff describe and explain the approaches they use in the emergent literacy environment of preschool? Focus-group interviews were conducted with 52 participating preschool units.…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Preschool Teachers, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Commeyras, M.; Ketsitlile, L. E. – Africa Education Review, 2013
In this review the authors considered all the documents pertaining to the teaching of reading in Botswana primary schools from independence to the present. The purpose was to get the big picture with regard to the status of reading education. The results are reported in four categories: (1) Reading in the Classroom; (2) Reading and Policy; (3)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literature Reviews, Reading Instruction, Primary Education
Ihmeideh, Fathi – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2010
This study investigated preschool teachers' beliefs and practices regarding the use of computer technology in teaching reading and writing in Jordan. The researcher developed a questionnaire consisting of two scales--Teachers' Beliefs Scale (TB Scale) and Teachers' Practices Scale (TP Scale)--to examine the role of computer technology in teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Reading Instruction
Dilena, Mike – 1977
This paper suggests that by emphasizing word identification skills and oral reading and by using limited reading materials, teachers have neglected reading for meaning. Following a review of current instructional practices, the paper explains how understanding writing depends on the world experience, language knowledge, and processing strategies…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Early Reading, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries
Grierson, Arlene L.; Woloshyn, Vera E. – Ontario Action Researcher, 2005
Researchers and educators acknowledge that early reading instruction is of critical importance, with interventions and remedial programming most effective in the primary grades. Integral to this programming are educators' abilities to assess students' reading strengths and needs, with inconsistent and/or inaccurate practices ultimately threatening…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Early Reading, Action Research, Portfolio Assessment
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Hamburg (West Germany). Inst. for Education. – 1986
This report summarizes the content and implementation strategies of the orientation seminar that the Unesco Institute for Education (UIE) has conducted to acquaint Arab states with strategies for developing postliteracy and continuing education programs in a lifelong learning framework. The first two sections outline the UIE project on the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Arabs
Schallert, Diane L., Ed.; Fairbanks, Colleen M., Ed.; Worthy, Jo, Ed.; Maloch, Beth, Ed.; Hoffman, James V., Ed. – National Reading Conference, 2002
This volume presents the 51st Yearbook of the National Reading Conference. Included in this volume are 28 research reports, six invited and award-winning addresses, and a conference summary by Deborah Dillion. Readers will find quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods studies throughout the volume about topics ranging from early literacy…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Core Curriculum, Reading Research, Yearbooks
