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Download full textWilkins, Chuck; Gersten, Russell; Decker, Lauren E.; Grunden, Leslie; Brasiel, Sarah; Brunnert, Kim; Jayanthi, Madhavi – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2012
This report presents estimates from a large-scale, multi-district RCT (randomized controlled trial) on the effectiveness of a summer reading program on improving student reading comprehension for economically disadvantaged grade 3 students reading below the 50th percentile nationally. This study focused on the summer between grades 3 and 4 for…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Independent Reading, Reading Programs, Reading Achievement
Direct linkJoseph, Rosnel L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This applied dissertation was designed to evaluate improving the reading performance of fifth-grade students through an afterschool reading program to determine whether it was effective in teaching Native American and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). This study compared the reading performance of fifth-grade students who struggle…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Reading Programs, American Indians, Observation
New England Consortium for the Right to Read, Kingston, RI. – 1976
The New England Consortium criteria of excellence are 26 statements of conditions which describe a quality reading program and which must exist if all children are to learn to read. These statements are grouped under five goal areas, the fifth of which, fostering reading interests, is treated in this position paper. The paper supports attainment…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Independent Reading, Library Cooperation, Library Role
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, DC. – 1971
This is the fifth report describing notable reading projects funded under Title Two of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The project descriptions were supplied by ESEA Title Two coordinators and media supervisors in the State departments of education for Arkansas, California, Georgia, Guam, Maryland, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York,…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Independent Reading, Individualized Reading, Library Services
PRESTON, RALPH C.; AND OTHERS – 1963
THIS BOOK DISCUSSES FACTORS TO CONSIDER IN PREPARING A READING PROGRAM FOR A HIGH SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES COURSE. IT PRESENTS EXPLICIT COVERAGE ON WHY READING AT THIS LEVEL IN THIS SUBJECT FIELD REQUIRES GUIDANCE, HOW TO PROVIDE FOR INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN READING ABILITY, THE WAY TO READ SOCIAL STUDIES TEXTBOOKS, VOCABULARY, AND THE STIMULATION…
Descriptors: Elective Reading, High School Students, Independent Reading, Individual Differences
Henretig, Max D. – 1971
This course is designed for independent students to improve their reading skills and their ability to interpret literature. The course should enable students to understand and use highly idiomatic vocabulary and grammatical structures of present-day English that interfere with comprehension. Excerpts from contemporary novels, short stories,…
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, English Instruction, Independent Reading, Interpretive Reading
Iowa State Dept. of Public Instruction, Des Moines. – 1968
Individualized reading is important to students in both elementary and secondary grades because it provides opportunities for them to find pleasure in reading, to internalize reading skills, to develop the reading habit, and to mature in book choices. Such programs are not intended to teach reading skills, but, if initiated at the elementary…
Descriptors: Creative Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Elective Reading, Elementary Education
Judson, Arlene – 1973
Research developed and evaluated an individualized reading program for 21 third graders with reading problems. It sought to improve their reading ability so they could read and understand new vocabulary words with 80% accuracy, read with increased expression and fluency, comprehend new content and, by transfer, to produce improvement in their…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Instruction, Educational Research
O'Neill, Stephen P. – 1978
The questions investigated in this study concern the adequacy of the current comprehensive English as a Second Language (ESL) programs, the need for a separate but complementary reading program, the relative merits of a classroom-based or an independent reading laboratory method, and the relationship between native language reading proficiency and…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, College Students, Educational Experiments, English (Second Language)
