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Download full textMississippi State Legislature, Jackson. Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review Committee. – 1994
A cornerstone of Mississippi's 1982 Education Reform Act, the Assistant Reading Instructor Program sought to improve basic skills acquisition by placing assistant reading instructors in primary grades. The program has not been effective in meeting its objectives. On standardized tests, students who had assistant reading instructors in the primary…
Descriptors: Policy Analysis, Primary Education, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Saterfiel, Thomas H.; Handley, Herbert M. – 1983
A privately funded project that placed reading aides in the first three grades of the public schools was initiated in a rural county of Mississippi. The program provided a paraprofessional assistant reading instructor who worked under the direction of a classroom teacher to strengthen and enrich children's work in small groups or in an educational…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Instructional Improvement, Primary Education, Program Evaluation
Peer reviewedHolmes, Kerry – Childhood Education, 2003
This article describes how a first-grade teacher used poetry to provide students of diverse ability levels with reading and language activities that stimulated their interest and improved basic skills. Activities with poetry included reading the poems aloud individually and as a group, discussing and analyzing the poems' words and meanings, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Grade 1, Grade Repetition, Journal Writing
