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Builder, Philip – Australian Journal of Reading, 1980
Describes a remedial reading program that involves educational counseling of parents to help them in assisting their children to read at home. (HTH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Parent Counseling, Parent Role, Reading Improvement
Peer reviewedRasinski, Timothy V.; Fredericks, Anthony D. – Reading Teacher, 1991
Describes a reading program being used in Akron Public Schools in which students in Chapter 1 classes and their parents participate in paired reading on a daily basis to improve their child's reading ability and confidence. (MG)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Parent Participation, Parent Role, Parent School Relationship
Download full textNiedermeyer, Fred C. – 1969
The effects of parent-monitored practice at home on pupil performance in reading were investigated. The study used as instructional vehicles the Parent-Assisted Learning Program (PAL) and the Southwest Regional Laboratory's (SWRL) First-Year Communication Skills Program. PAL was designed to enable school personnel to establish a system whereby…
Descriptors: Kindergarten Children, Parent Education, Parent Participation, Parent Role
Peer reviewedLautenschlager, John; Hertz, Karl V. – Reading Teacher, 1984
Outlines a program that helped parents to become active partners in their children's reading development. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Parent Role, Program Content, Program Development
Peer reviewedUnwin, Cynthia G. – Reading Teacher, 1995
Describes a home-based family literacy intervention with a mother and her four children. Highlights the importance of motivation and family involvement in developing literacy skills.(SR)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Family School Relationship, Home Programs, Learning Motivation
Reading Newsreport, 1971
Tells of various approaches used in New Haven, Connecticut's campaign to improve reading attitudes in school children. All facets of the community were involved in the effort, and approaches used included television commercials, radio spots, endorsements by famous people, and billboard and newspaper ads. (VJ)
Descriptors: Community Role, Multimedia Instruction, Parent Role, Public Relations
Peer reviewedRaim, Joan – Reading Teacher, 1980
Reports on a reading program that showed parents of underachieving inner-city primary school children how to help their children improve their reading performance. Concludes that the parents not only helped their children but also improved their own reading ability. (FL)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Disadvantaged Youth, Inner City, Parent Participation
Indiana State Dept. of Education, Indianapolis. – 1987
Noting that many schools in the state of Indiana offer reading incentive programs that provide special recognition or awards to students who reach or exceed established goals in their reading programs, this booklet presents the results of a survey of the types of reading incentive programs in use. The booklet notes that the programs span all grade…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Motivation Techniques, Parent Role
Zajano, Nancy C. – 1977
The BRONCOS reading improvement project is a Right to Read program operating in six Rhode Island schools (five public, one parochial), designed to improve the communication skills of 1,554 students in kindergarten through eighth grade. The program was designed to accomplish a greater degree of individualized instruction. Existing reading programs…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Individualized Reading, Language Experience Approach, Parent Influence
Peer reviewedSchrenker, Cecilia, Ed. – Wisconsin State Reading Association Journal, 1981
The eight articles in this journal issue focus on the role of the parent in the reading program. Specific topics discussed in the articles include the following: (1) ways that parents can support the school reading program, (2) tips for parents on how to develop a time management system for home reading instruction, (3) strategies designed to help…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Participation
Peer reviewedWendelin, Karla Hawkins; Danielson, Kathy Everts – Clearing House, 1988
Suggests ways in which parents and teachers can work together to improve the reading development of children. Presents results from a survey which examined parents' knowledge and beliefs about reading, and indicated the need for more parent-teacher interaction. Recommends parents make a conscious effort to reinforce the school's reading program.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Parent Attitudes, Parent Role, Parent School Relationship
Peer reviewedGains, Keith F. S. – Reading, 1989
Examines the use of reading diaries, in which parents of poor readers recorded their child's reading activities at home. Indicates that children made a mean gain in Reading Age Score of 6.3 months after five weeks of using the reading diary approach. Reports positive change in reading attitudes for both parents and children. (MG)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Elementary Education, Family School Relationship, Intervention
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. Div. of Instruction. – 1979
This is the first of three volumes that constitute the final evaluation report of Project STAR (State Technical Assistance Resources), an undertaking of the Maryland State Department of Education designed to help 36 elementary schools improve their reading programs. This volume is essentially descriptive and is divided into seven parts. The first…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Elementary Education, Improvement Programs, Inservice Teacher Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1982
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 16 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) attitudes and reading achievement in an innovative high school; (2) the interaction of learning styles and word type as they affect word recognition among…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Beginning Reading, Cognitive Style, Doctoral Dissertations
Montebello Unified School District, CA. – 1985
Noting that some elementary school children may have difficulty learning to read using basal readers, this paper describes the successful implementation of the Big Books for Beginning Readers reading program in a California elementary school. The first section of the paper discusses the problems students were having with reading, including a lack…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Books
