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Smith, Christina – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This program evaluation is a study of the effectiveness of a core reading program, Journeys, by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), on the early literacy skills and oral reading fluency (ORF) of kindergarten through second grade students in a rural elementary school. The scores of the students in the experimental group were compared to scores of…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness, Rural Schools, Elementary School Students
Wilczynski, Elaine L. – 1994
A practicum was designed to encourage 60 at-risk young children in a Chapter 1 reading program at a rural primary school to read for pleasure so that they would eventually increase literacy development. The parents, teachers, and volunteer readers would increase the amount of time spent reading aloud to the children in the Chapter 1 reading…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Primary Education, Reading Aloud to Others, Reading Attitudes
Christmas, Jack – 1993
A program was designed to improve the reading achievement of second grade students in a rural Georgia school. An analysis of the problem indicated that: a higher percentage of second grade students from low socioeconomic conditions scored lower on standardized reading achievement tests than other second grade students; students who scored lower…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Parent Participation, Primary Education