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Download full textSaxby, Lori Eggers – Journal of Developmental Education, 2017
Developmental reading courses that use specific content-area reading skills and whose reading specialists interact closely with discipline-specific faculty improve student learning (Cox, Friesner, & Khayum, 2003, p. 191). Additionally, content-area instructors who teach strategies such as utilizing study guides and graphic organizers, and who…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Content Area Reading, Reading Skills
Middle Grades Reading Network, University of Evansville, 2009
This "Blueprint" describes the actions everyone needs to take if they are to nourish Indiana's young adolescents so that they will be able to develop their reading skills to their full potential. This document spells out the ways that everyone can make books available, provide middle grades students with the time for reading, provide…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Materials, Role Models, Reading Programs
Direct linkBrown, Mamie Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This purpose of this research study was to investigate the role of effective principals and how that role relates to the improvement of adolescent reading skills. This research study identified three strategies that were utilized by principals in an effort to develop effective reading skills in adolescent students which are: (1) effective program…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, High Schools, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools
Humphrey, Jack W. – Middle Grades Reading Network, University of Evansville, 2009
There is abundant evidence that schools with strong reading programs have successful students. But building strong reading skills is a complex task, particularly by the time students reach the middle grades. A survey was conducted that involved all Indiana middle grades schools in May 2009. Two types of data analysis were utilized in preparing the…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Reading Programs, Reading Achievement, Public Libraries
Hoosier Schoolmaster, 1974
This issue of the "Hoosier Schoolmaster of the Seventies" has as its theme "The Reading Effectiveness Program." The contents include: "Superintendent's Message," which discusses the Indiana Department of Public Instruction's commitment to improving the reading skill of Indiana citizens; "Teaching the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Reading, Reading Development, Reading Improvement
JANES, EDITH; VON HORN, ARLENE – 1967
THE RESULTS OF STANDARDIZED TESTS IN LANGUAGE ARTS COVERING 10 YEARS FOR GRADES NINE THROUGH 12 IN GARY, INDIANA, REVEALED THE NEED FOR A DIRECTED PROGRAM IN VOCABULARY INSTRUCTION. A 2-YEAR PILOT STUDY ON VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT USING THE DIRECT APPROACH WAS CONDUCTED AMONG 5,000 NINTH-GRADE STUDENTS. A PRETEST WAS FOLLOWED BY 20 WEEKLY LESSONS,…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Language Acquisition, Language Arts, Reading Comprehension
Gavigan, Patrick; Hesemann, John – 1975
This report is part of an overview of the aspirations, methods, and summary results of associational analyses of Indiana assessment data. The study was based on the recognition of policy makers' needs to understand the causes of existing conditions in their schools and to be able to evaluate compound implications of their actions. A survey data…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Needs
PDF pending restorationGordon, Edmund W.; And Others – 1972
The Mishawaka special reading program, now in its sixth year of operation, is supported primarily with Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I funds. The program is designed to enable reading handicapped children to achieve and maintain a reading skill higher than a year below their grade placement; interpret the child's strengths and…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Diagnosis
