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Hollenbeck, Amy Feiker; Saternus, Kara – Reading Teacher, 2013
As teachers and leaders move forward in implementing the Common Core State Standards within classrooms across 46 states, it is essential to consider the question of what knowledge is included in the English Language Arts Standards, and what knowledge is not present. The authors of the Common Core delineate an increasingly complex body of knowledge…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, State Standards, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension
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Carter, Carolyn J. – Schools: Studies in Education, 2011
Charter school administrators weathered start-up woes, among them challenging students with unmet needs, verbal assaults, dwindling student enrollment, and a first-year budget deficit exceeding $200,000 to implement a reading improvement strategy that holds promise for helping at-risk students read better, a point particularly underscored…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Charter Schools, Small Schools
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Schmidgall, Melissa; Joseph, Laurice M. – Psychology in the Schools, 2007
This study compared the instructional effectiveness and efficiency of three word-reading interventions on cumulative number of words read accurately and cumulative learning rate. Participants were six first graders who needed intensive intervention services. Alternating treatment designs were used to compare the effects of interspersal drill, a…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Grade 1, Phonetics, Instructional Effectiveness
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Korat, Ofra; Klein, Pnina; Segal-Drori, Ora – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2007
The researchers addressed two questions: (1) Does maternal reading mediation and family home literacy environment (HLE) relate to children's emergent literacy (EL) level? and (2) Do the relationships among these variables differ as a function of socioeconomic strata (SES) level. A total of 94 5-6-year-old children, 47 from low SES (LSES) and 47…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Mothers, Emergent Literacy, Reading Strategies
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Courtney, Ann M.; Montano, MaryAnn – Young Children, 2006
A large body of research (Clay 1991; National Reading Panel 2000; Pressley 2000; Courtney & Abodeeb 2001) on young readers reveals that most children do not know how to check their understanding as they read, nor do educators give them the strategies to do so. Comprehension is the process of constructing meaning while interacting with text.…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Metacognition, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies
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Al Otaiba, Stephanie; Kosanovich-Grek, Marcia L.; Torgesen, Joseph K.; Hassler, Laura; Wahl, Michelle – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2005
This article describes the findings of our review process for core reading programs and provides a preliminary rubric emanating from this process for rating core reading programs. To our knowledge, this is the first published review of the current "Reading First" guidelines and includes all five components of scientifically based reading…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Federal Legislation, Reading Research, Educational Strategies