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Direct linkEhri, Linnea C.; Dreyer, Lois G.; Flugman, Bert; Gross, Alan – American Educational Research Journal, 2007
The Reading Rescue tutoring intervention model was investigated with 64 low-socioeconomic status, language-minority first graders with reading difficulties. School staff provided tutoring in phonological awareness, systematic phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and reading comprehension. Tutored students made significantly greater gains reading words…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Intervention, Reading Consultants
Peer reviewedHeinrichs, Audrey S. – Reading Horizons, 1987
Discusses the contradictions found in recommendations for direction instruction or informal math language development, and some suggestions for practical resolution of disagreements, to enable school reading specialists to provide both background and practical help to classroom instructors teaching math. (HTH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Mathematics Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Reading Consultants
Woodard, Diana, Comp.; Wall, Shirley, Comp. – 1992
This handbook, prepared by teachers enrolled in the 1992 summer session of Reading 508 at Northeast Louisiana State University (Monroe, Louisiana) under the guidance of Dr. Harry Miller, discusses (in separate sections) reading readiness, word recognition, vocabulary development, and reading comprehension. Each section of the book also presents…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Consultants
Bourgeois, Penny, Comp.; And Others – 1991
This handbook contains brief essays concerning aspects of reading and reading skills, activities designed to promote those skills, and biographies of reading specialists. The first section of the handbook discusses reading readiness, word recognition, word analysis, word meaning, comprehension, and content area reading. After discussion of each…
Descriptors: Biographies, Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education
McCullough, Constance M., Ed. – 1980
The papers in this volume represent thoughts about the state of the art of teaching reading (with an emphasis on persistent problems) of many recognized authorities in the field of reading education. Eight of the articles were originally presented at a joint Reading Hall of Fame and International Reading Association (IRA) symposium at the IRA…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingual Education, Learning Disabilities, Literacy
Silliman, Elaine R., Ed.; Wilkinson, Louise C., Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2007
Accessible and user-friendly, this volume presents evidence-based practices for integrating language and literacy knowledge to enhance children's learning in today's standards-based classrooms. While grounded in theory and research, the book focuses on day-to-day concerns in instruction and intervention, identifying models for effective…
Descriptors: Intervention, Word Recognition, Reading Comprehension, Teacher Collaboration
Herber, Harold L. – J Reading, 1970
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Evaluation Criteria, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Development
Bozman, Maurice Wilson – 1972
The purpose of this study was to assess the extent of the relationship between test data of problem readers diagnosed in a reading center and the kinds of recommendations made by a reading specialist at the center in the areas of phonics and comprehension. A second dimension was to assess the agreement of the diagnoses in the areas of phonics and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading, Reading Ability, Reading Centers
Miller, Harry B.; And Others – 1980
This resource booklet for reading consultants and supervisors was prepared as a class project during a summer seminar in teacher education. The booklet provides discussions of the essential principles of reading instruction and biographical sketches of reading specialists recognized as experts in the field. The topics discussed include adult basic…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities, Reading Comprehension
Ryder, Randall J. – 1978
A successful content area reading program not only includes reading classes that teach specific skills, but also provides for the inservice training of teachers, offering activities that facilitate student reading comprehension in the content areas. For such a program to succeed, the financial commitment and time devoted to teacher training must…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Development
Pinette, Clayton, Ed.; Smith, Kent, Ed. – Forum for Reading, 1979
Issued twice yearly, this journal focuses on materials of interest to teachers of reading at the college level. The five articles in this issue deal with the following topics: basic skills instruction, judging the success of college reading programs, the effect of copying or paraphrasing structurally-cued topic sentences on passage comprehension,…
Descriptors: College Programs, College Students, Higher Education, Program Evaluation
Kurth, Ruth Justine; Stromberg, Linda J. – 1982
The goals of an intervention study of formal reading instruction were to encourage teachers to incorporate more direct teaching of comprehension, to maintain a more equitable balance between time devoted to word recognition instruction and time devoted to comprehension instruction, to promote independent level reading, and to minimize the amount…
Descriptors: Educational Cooperation, Elementary Education, Instructional Improvement, Reading Comprehension
Evans, Martha; And Others – 1975
As the second in a four volume final report of a Right to Read preservice, competency-based modular reading specialist project, this volume presents the module outlines for components two through six of the classroom program. Component two (readiness and beginning reading) trains the students in language development, dialect differences, language…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Competency Based Teacher Education, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education
Pinette, Clayton, Ed.; Smith, Kent, Ed. – Forum for Reading: The Journal for College Reading Improvement, 1979
Five essays for reading instructors at two-year colleges are provided in this issue of "Forum for Reading." First, Kent Smith notes the increased recruitment of underprepared students and argues that colleges are responsible for assuring that admissions personnel, administrators, and faculty know the types of students they can and cannot…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, High Risk Students, Open Enrollment, Program Effectiveness
Download full textVan De Warker, Mary J. – 1973
A model for augmenting the impact of the community college reading instructor within the institution is presented in this paper. Reported are the actual findings and the criteria used in: (1) the assessment of the reading levels of students enrolled in three courses at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois; (2) the evaluation of the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Content Area Reading, Readability, Reading Comprehension
