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Download full textAmerican Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1971
The Hartford Public School District has set up and is maintaining three Intensive Reading Centers, each of which provides a 10-weeks reading program for first graders. The purpose of the program is to improve the reading achievement of disadvantaged children. Children in groups of 10 or 11 move from teacher to teacher at 50-minute intervals. They…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Demonstration Programs
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1971
Almost 900 children in grades 1 through 8, with reading difficulties, are given special individualized instruction at the Yuba County Reading-Learning Center each year. Operating on a twelve-months basis, the Center seeks to improve the children's reading and verbal skills and bring about more positive attitudes toward school and education. The…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education, Individual Instruction, Inservice Teacher Education
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1971
The Topeka Reading Clinic, Centers, and Services provides help for disabled readers in the Topeka, Kansas, elementary and junior high schools. The professional staff of the clinic diagnoses reading disabilities and designs remedial programs. The remedial reading teachers affiliated with the clinic offer reading classes in the schools for grade 4…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Junior High Schools
Peer reviewedKleinmann, Howard H. – Modern Language Journal, 1987
Study of the reading achievement of nonnative speakers of English enrolled in a basic skills college reading course indicated that those students receiving computer-assisted instruction (CAI) made higher reading achievement gains than students not receiving CAI. An annotated list of CAI reading software is included. (CB)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, English (Second Language)
PDF pending restorationDade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. Dept. of Planning and Evaluation. – 1977
During the 1974-75 school year, reading laboratories were established in Dade County, Florida senior high schools as an approach to the remediation, development, or acceleration of the reading skills of senior high school pupils. This evaluation sought to determine the reading program's potential for improving the reading skills of senior high…
Descriptors: Acceleration, Achievement Gains, Program Evaluation, Reading Achievement
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1971
The Elementary Reading Centers located in 36 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, urban schools provide supplementary remedial reading instruction to pupils with low reading achievement and provide reading resource teachers to assist and train classroom teachers. Reading teachers emphasize comprehension, vocabulary development, word recognition, study skills,…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Developmental Reading, Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Arter, Rhetta M. – 1972
The Parent Leadership Training Project (PLTP) through Adult Basic Education was established as a two-year demonstration project designed to increase the reading skills of adults (16 and over) through a language-experience approach, using topics selected by the participants. The independent project evaluation covers the entire operational period…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Educational Objectives
Dunkeld, Colin G. – 1973
The second year of the Portland EPDA Reading Program was a modification of an in-service program in the teaching of reading which had been carried out in four Portland elementary schools during the previous year. Four school principals, 38 teachers of grades one through four, 16 teacher-aides, and 22 parent volunteers participated in the program…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Developmental Reading, Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Woodley, John W.; Smith, R. Lee – 1988
Methods used to diagnose a seven-year old boy's reading problems illustrate the fact that reading assessments based upon a reader's strengths and a reader's understanding and control of the process will provide information which is more useful to teachers and parents than that provided by the numerical results of standardized tests. After Andrew,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Case Studies, Informal Reading Inventories, Primary Education
Ketcham, Clay A., Ed. – 1961
The proceedings of the fourth annual meeting of the College Reading Association (a fledgling organization in 1961 when this meeting was held) consisted of two symposia, a number of papers, and special reports on research related to reading, as follows: (1) "Opening Remarks" (Albert J. Mazurkiewicz); (2) "Improving Reading in the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Higher Education, Public Schools
Detroit Public Schools, MI. – 1967
THIS REPORT DESCRIBES THE 1965-66 ACTIVITIES OF AN ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT, TITLE I PROJECT WHICH PROVIDES PUBLIC AND NONPUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATIONALLY DISADVANTAGED PUPILS IN GRADES FOUR TO 12 WITH SPECIAL REMEDIAL READING SERVICES. AS A PART OF THIS PROJECT, THREE 2-WEEK SUMMER WORKSHOPS OFFERED INSERVICE TRAINING IN REMEDIAL READING…
Descriptors: Achievement, Behavior Change, Data, Disadvantaged Youth
Detroit Public Schools, MI. – 1968
A reading program was established to provide remedial reading therapy for disadvantaged students and inservice training in diagnostic and remedial techniques for their regular classroom teachers. Reading achievement gains exhibited as a result of the program were measured according to pre- and posttest scores on standardized reading achievement…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Behavior Change, Data, Disadvantaged Youth
Tompkins, John F. – 1986
This report evaluates the reading and mathematics lab programs for elementary and secondary students in the Des Moines (Iowa) Independent Community School District. The reading program served 510 students in 13 schools and mathematics program served 240 students in 7 schools. A variety of assessment instruments were used to pinpoint students'…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Mathematics Achievement
Ketcham, Clay A., Ed. – 1965
The proceedings of the eighth annual meeting of the College Reading Association consisted of the following papers: "President's Report" (M. J. Weiss); "What Constitutes a Minimal Program for Clinical Diagnosis of Reading Disabilities?" (G. L. Bond); "Problems in Establishing Developmental Reading Programs in Junior…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Paperback Books, Reading Achievement, Reading Centers
Levinski, Carol; And Others – 1981
An overview of a demonstration program in reading designed to improve students' reading skills and their attitudes toward reading at the middle school level is described in this booklet. Following introductory information about the program, the booklet lists some highlights of the program, including testing methods, student contracts, the point…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Middle Schools
