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Zimmerman, Marty – Online Submission, 2011
This action research developed as a response to the researcher's experience with struggling and alliterate readers across all content areas in secondary schools. The researcher witnessed the negative impact of a depressed economy and depressed reading proficiency pervasive among students based on classroom experience and standardized testing. The…
Descriptors: Action Research, Secondary Education, High School Students, Reading Difficulties
DeBoer, June – 1991
An action research project studied the attitudes and achievement of low-achieving fifth-grade students after participating in a 1-year heterogeneously grouped, literature-based reading program. The project explored the changes in student attitudes towards reading, and changes in students' knowledge in comprehension and vocabulary development.…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Low Achievement
Michigan State Dept. of Education, Lansing. – 2001
One component of the Reading Plan for Michigan is to develop and implement methods of assessing children's progress in acquiring early literacy skills and of communicating their status and progress to other teachers and parents. This document presents an assessment and instructional system, the Michigan Literacy Progress Profile 2001 (MLPP 2001),…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Emergent Literacy, Evaluation Methods, Letters (Alphabet)