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Direct linkNagy, Kerri Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Given expectations for higher standards teachers must find ways to improve family involvement and build a community atmosphere within the classroom. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to examine the implementation of a family involvement program into a first grade classroom. Epstein's six types of parent involvement formed the theoretical…
Descriptors: Reading Failure, Parent Participation, Grade 1, Family Involvement
Download full textChang, Sau Hou – Online Submission, 2010
The present study investigated the reading attitude of struggling elementary students at risk for reading failure. Twenty-nine first-grade and 32 second-grade struggling readers were given the Elementary Reading Attitude Survey (McKenna & Kear, 1990). First-grade struggling readers favored more academic reading activities while second-grade…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Reading Difficulties, Elementary School Students, At Risk Students
Gibson, Lenwood, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The current investigation studied the effects of a computer software program of the oral reading fluency and comprehension of eight, first grade students. These students were identified as being either "at-risk" or "some-risk" for reading failure on the DIBELS oral reading fluency winter benchmark assessment. A multiple probe…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Programs, Reading Fluency, Computer Software
Peer reviewedVanSciver, James H.; Fleetwood, Linda M. – Young Children, 1997
Describes a reworking of a Title 1 program in Lake Forest, Delaware schools, to eliminate first grade retention due to substandard level of reading ability. The process included: (1) making reading fun; (2) new reading material; (3) parental participation; (4) scheduled reading time; (5) reading requirements; and (6) teachers' aides in classrooms.…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Grade 1, Grade Repetition, Low Achievement
Mazurkiewicz, Albert J. – 1973
Based on its use with first graders in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for an eleven year period, the Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.) appears to have a number of advantages for reading instruction. These years of research have indicated that the advantages of i.t.a. are that it permits the child to: advance more rapidly in reading and writing…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Creative Writing, Grade 1, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Low-Income Hispanic Parents' Contributions to the Reading Achievement of Their First-Grade Children.
Goldenberg, Claude N. – 1984
Case studies were used to explore parents' role in first-grade reading success of nine at-risk, low-income, Hispanic students in a small, predominantly Hispanic school district in Southern California. Refuting the theory that low achievement results from differences between home and school norms and values, the study found that all 15 parents…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Expectation, Family Characteristics, Grade 1
