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Download full textFamily Learning Association, Bloomington, IN. – 1998
Noting that parent involvement could be the single most important factor in children's success in school, this book helps parents act as tutors in reading and writing for their kindergarten children. It offers both general guidelines and specific strategies and activities to use for accomplishing specific objectives, such as improving decoding…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children, Parent Participation
Newark Unified School Dist., CA. – 1983
THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT: The kindergarten staff at H. A. Snow School has devised a series of homework idea sheets, to accompany the readiness program that is taught weekly in the kindergarten classrooms. Beginning in early October, we introduce an alphabet letter each Monday. During the week, all subject areas are focused…
Descriptors: Homework, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children, Learning Activities
Somerfield, Muriel; And Others – 1985
Intended for administrators and reading teachers, this book deals with the issues about reading that seem to be the most common causes of concern. The topics discussed are the following: a general approach to the teaching of reading, ways to involve parents with reading, a prereading program, the organization of a reading program, the process of…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Literature Appreciation, Parent Participation, Program Evaluation
Spicola, Rose; Griffin, Margaret – 1985
Minority children need broad experiences basic to literacy development that narrowly conceived curricula cannot provide. Parent interactions and first school encounters can provide daily experiences with print, writing, and stories. The time the teacher takes to involve parents in programs for minority children, by explaining activities that can…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Environment, Educational Opportunities, Educational Strategies
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Div. of Instruction. – 1981
This booklet presents a summary of South Carolina's utilization of Title I funds during the years 1976-1980 and identifies those specific projects exhibiting the greatest gains in terms of student achievement during fiscal year 1980. A series of tables show the impact of Title I in the areas of: (1) state allocation of funds; (2) number of…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education
Reporting on Reading, 1978
Parents have a significant role in preparing their children to read; they can help shape and strengthen the school's reading program. Articles included in this Right to Read bulletin deal with the following topics: the heightened interest among educators in parent involvement in reading instruction; sharing tasks between parents and teachers in…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Individualized Instruction, Parent Influence, Parent Participation
Columbus Public Schools, OH. – 1974
This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves approximately 800 four-year-old children enrolled at 26 public schools. The program was begun in 1965, and in 1971 major revisions were made in it. Children attend prekindergarten classes for two and one half hours a day, five days a week. Specific written objectives for…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Parent Participation
Anaheim City School District, CA. – 1974
This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 184 disadvantaged white and Spanish-speaking children ranging in age from four to seven and having pretest reading scores of at least one grade level below expectancy. Individualized reading instruction and multilevel grouping are the focus of this program, begun in 1970.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Diagnostic Teaching, Early Childhood Education, Individualized Reading
Jorde, Paula – 1973
This handbook of activities in designed to help parents (or preschool teachers) present interesting learning games to children, ages 3-6 years. Activities are grouped into the following categories: (1) Sensory Awareness, (2) Getting Ready to Read and Write, (3) Learning Math Concepts, (4) Discovery through Science, (5) Creating through Art and…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Childrens Games, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Peer reviewedWartenberg, Herbert – Reading Teacher, 1970
Descriptors: Developmental Reading, Group Discussion, Inservice Education, Parent Participation
PDF pending restorationMeyer, Linda A.; And Others – 1990
A study was conducted to explore how children learn to read in kindergarten. The study employed a heuristic model that included entering ability, home background, instructional processes, home support for literacy development, and measures of student ability at the end of kindergarten. Children were tested, whole-day classroom observations were…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Kindergarten, Parent Participation, Phonics
Henry, Bertram Von Lossberg – 1974
The purpose of this study was to determine whether boys read to by their fathers for the six-month period immediately preceding entrance into first grade would score significantly higher on predictor instruments for first-grade reading achievement when compared with boys read to by their mothers or boys in an unplanned situation for the same…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Early Reading, Language Skills, Oral Reading
Wheeler, Doris; Henderson, Hannah Dale – 1976
The program outlined in this guide was developed on the theory that an important factor in determining a child's success in reading is an enriched background of prereading educational experiences (in the areas of language, motor skills, auditory and visual perception, and self-image) which can be directed at home by parents. In this program, the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Home Instruction, Parent Participation, Parent Role
Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1971
The fourteen Title II reading projects described in this report use resources ranging from reading readiness materials for first- and second-grade pupils identified as potential reading failures, to nineteenth century newspapers on microfilm in secondary social studies. General descriptions of techniques for using the materials in the reading…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials, Models
Department of Education, Washington, DC. – 2001
This videotape (in either VHS of 3/4 inch format) presents an interactive teleconference where renowned national experts, local educators, and community leaders share ideas on how to improve schools and reach the National Educational Goals. This 60-minute Satellite Town Meeting focuses on laying the foundation for school success through readiness…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Early Childhood Education, Educational Environment, Family Literacy
