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Peer reviewedChandler, Carolyn Ebel – Journal of Reading, 1988
Reports on the American Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation's "Press to Read" campaign, and on literacy projects initiated by a variety of newspapers. (JAD)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Curriculum, Media Adaptation
Download full textBerryman, Charles – 1975
Five research reports on the use of instructional modules, originally published in the Atlanta "Journal and Constitution" as "Improving Reading Skills" and widely used in Georgia as the "Athens Model," are summarized in this paper. For research purposes, the modules were concentrated in time as a high saturation…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Newspapers, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
Haeberle, Eileen K. – Indiana Reading Quarterly, 1971
Descriptors: Developmental Reading, Grade 7, Motivation Techniques, Newspapers
Wardell, Patricia Murray – 1973
The purpose of this study was to increase students' ability to locate specific information and to distinguish between facts and opinions, major ideas and minor details, and favorable and unfavorable statements in reading a newspaper. A workbook containing a minimum of ten exercises, a mastery skill sheet, and six supplementary exercises in each…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 9, Newspapers
Meyer, Sarah Janane – 1990
A practicum was developed which implemented an alternative to using a standard reading textbook, by using the newspaper as a learning tool to supplement the existing reading program over a 12-week period in a first grade class. The program centered around a collection of techniques and strategies used to motivate and increase young children's…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Grade 1, Newspapers, Practicum Papers
