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Download full textMichael W. Harvey – Online Submission, 2011
School systems across the country continuously seek to find ways to increase academic achievement at all grades. Possessing the ability to read is one of the keys to academic success; not being able to presents many challenges. Union County Public Schools and the state of North Carolina expect students leaving their kindergarten year to be able to…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Action Research, Compulsory Education, Reading Failure
Chang, Sau Hou – Online Submission, 2010
The present study investigated the reading attitude of struggling elementary students at risk for reading failure. Twenty-nine first-grade and 32 second-grade struggling readers were given the Elementary Reading Attitude Survey (McKenna & Kear, 1990). First-grade struggling readers favored more academic reading activities while second-grade…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Reading Difficulties, Elementary School Students, At Risk Students
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Direct linkPatricia R. Kelly; Francisco-Xavier Gomez-Bellenge; Jing Chen; Melissa M. Schulz – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2008
This study investigated the efficacy of Reading Recovery[R] (RR) with first grade English language learners (ELLs) in U.S. schools by examining the literacy outcomes of ELLs compared with their native English-speaking (NES) peers, who were also enrolled in RR. We also explored how ELLs' fall oral English proficiency levels were related to their…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Phonemics, Bilingual Education, Reading Failure
Brown, Sandra M., Ed. – 1971
The "Right to Read" goal set by James E. Allen, Jr., former United States Commissioner of Education, is evaluated through a series of interviews with 25 leading authorities in reading. Allen's address is included in its entirety. The comments of the reading authorities, who often disagree among themselves, reflect the impact that the…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Equal Education, Interviews, Literacy
ROTH, LOIS H.; AND OTHERS – 1966
THE RESULTS OF A READING WORK CONFERENCE HELD IN DENVER, COLORADO, IN FEBRUARY 1966, TO DEVELOP GUIDELINES FOR PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING DIAGNOSTIC READING PROGRAMS, ARE PRESENTED. TOPICS DISCUSSED INCLUDE A DEFINITION OF READING, THE PROCESSES OF READING, THE ROLES OF THE TEACHER, READING CONSULTANT, AND PRINCIPAL, THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Curriculum Guides, Reading Ability, Reading Consultants
Zimmerman, Howard C. – 1970
A lack of efficiency and effectiveness among many students today in either oral or silent reading, a major mode of modern communication, is cited. It is reasoned that constructive steps must be taken toward improving reading abilities in both the high schools and colleges. The author refers specifically to steps that should be taken in Ohio by the…
Descriptors: Colleges, Educational Problems, Mass Media, Nonverbal Communication
Whitcomb, Leila M. – 1974
This paper discusses the teaching of reading to secondary level and adult ineffective readers. The paper deals with the real costs of reading failures, the human frustration of not being able to read, and the role of reading in our society. It presents three brief studies of adults' inability to read; discusses ways of helping ineffective high…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Content Area Reading, High School Students, Reading
Sanacore, Joseph – 1987
Children are faced with an increased potential for academic failure due to less stable family lives and career-oriented parents. Cross-cultural reading instruction practices and programs can provide insights that could prevent such failure for children at-risk. One such program is the reading maintenance program used in Denmark, wherein groups of…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Needs, Family Environment, Foreign Countries
