NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 4 results Save | Export
Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education, 2009
Which elementary reading approaches have been proven to help struggling readers to succeed? To find out, this review summarizes evidence on six types of programs designed to improve the reading achievement of children having difficulty in learning to read: (1) One-to-One Tutoring by Teachers (TT) such as "Reading Recovery," "Auditory…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Difficulties, Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Pellow, Randall A. – Reading Improvement, 1995
Uses a tongue-in-cheek approach and enumerates 12 culprits that historically have created havoc among children in their quest to learn to read and understand the English language, including word attack skills, graphemic-phonemic relationships, compound words, homographs, semantic analysis, and more. (SR)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Grammar, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Post, Yolanda V.; Carreker, Suzanne; Holland, Ginger – Annals of Dyslexia, 2001
Two groups of first graders (n=63) participated in a 10-day intervention study in which they were instructed in the spelling of five final letter patterns in monosyllabic words. Children receiving phoneme instruction improved accuracy of final pattern spelling as well as speed of word reading over children receiving rime instruction. (Contains…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Bos, Candace; Mather, Nancy; Dickson, Shirley; Podhajski, Blanche; Chard, David – Annals of Dyslexia, 2001
A study that examined perceptions and knowledge of 252 preservice educators and 286 inservice educators about early reading instruction found inservice educators had more positive attitudes about explicit code instruction and preservice educators were more positive about implicit code instruction. However, both groups demonstrated limited…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Dyslexia, Elementary Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching