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Zacamy, Jenna; Jaciw, Andrew P.; Lin, Li; Newman, Denis – Empirical Education Inc., 2014
In October 2010, WestEd's Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI) won an i3 "Validation" grant to scale up and validate the Reading Apprenticeship (RA) model in three core secondary content area classes: U.S. history, biology, and English language arts. SLI's proposal stated two goals. Goal 1: To transform academic literacy teaching and…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement, Reading Programs
Zacamy, Jenna; Newman, Denis; Lin, Li; Jaciw, Andrew P. – Empirical Education Inc., 2015
In October 2010, WestEd's Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI) won an i3 "Validation" grant to scale up and validate the Reading Apprenticeship (RA) model in three core secondary content area classes: U.S. history, biology, and English language arts. SLI's proposal stated two goals. Goal 1: To transform academic literacy teaching and…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Fidelity, Sustainability, Literacy
Walker, Johnny – Principal Leadership, 2010
Universal Institute Charter School, a Title I school in South Philadelphia, uses instructional software for reading that offers diagnostic features so that teachers can quickly identify individual students' needs and respond to them. Because of the success students experienced in the learning support and summer school environments, the program was…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Charter Schools, Educational Improvement, Achievement Gains
Zacamy, Jenna; Gray, Sophia; Jaciw, Andrew; Newman, Denis – Empirical Education Inc., 2013
In October 2010, WestEd's Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI) won an i3 "Validation" grant to scale up and validate the Reading Apprenticeship (RA) model in three core secondary content area classes: U.S. history, biology, and English language arts. SLI's proposal stated two goals. Goal 1: To transform academic literacy teaching and…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement, Content Area Reading
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Ehri, Linnea C.; Satlow, Eric; Gaskins, Irene – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2009
First, second, and third graders (N = 102) who had completed from 1 to 3 years of literacy instruction in other schools and had experienced failure entered a private school for struggling readers and received instruction in either of 2 types of systematic phonics programs over a 4-year period. One group received a keyword analogy method (KEY) that…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Private Schools, Phonemics, Literacy
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. Bureau of Curriculum Services. – 1978
Developed as a result of a Pennsylvania State Board of Education mandate that all junior high school students should receive one planned course that would improve reading instruction, promote student reading achievement, and advance positive attitudes toward reading to the extent that students would be equipped with wholesome and productive…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, English Curriculum, Junior High Schools