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Peer reviewedDonovan, Carol A.; Smolkin, Laura B.; Lomax, Richard G. – Reading Psychology, 2000
Finds that both low-ability and average-ability first-grade readers, and to a lesser extent high-ability readers, from different socioeconomic backgrounds, select books that are beyond students' reading level. Discusses influences of gender and genre on these selections. Discusses the relation of frustration-level texts to interest and motivation,…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Primary Education, Readability, Reader Text Relationship
Kirsch, Dorothy Italie – 1973
The purposes of this study were to survey expressed reading interests of first and second grade children from different geographic areas of the United States, with differing racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds; to compare expressed reading interests of children in grades one and two in an attempt to determine if interests change; and to…
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 1, Grade 2
Download full textRobertson, Lorraine C. – 1993
A study compared attitudes of remedial readers in a basal reading program with those of remedial readers in an individualized reading program. Ten first-grade children, five from each of the respective classrooms, were used. All were classified as low readers jointly by the classroom teacher and with the use of an informal reading inventory taken…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Comparative Analysis, Early Intervention, Elementary School Students
Thomas, Grace Gilliard – 1990
A study was conducted to address the problem of all students not learning to read in the same manner when the instruction was limited to only one approach, that of the basal reader with its phonics emphasis. The Reading Style Inventory, the Swassing-Barbe Modality Index, and the Bradway Quick Check were administered to the students attending the…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Cognitive Style, Grade 1, High Risk Students
Ballard, Christine; Jacocks, Kathleen – 2001
This study describes a program designed to improve student reading fluency. The targeted population consisted of first and third grade students in a growing urban community in the Midwest. Evidence for the existence of the problem included standardized test scores and independent computer reports that measured academic achievement, phonic…
Descriptors: Action Research, Decoding (Reading), Grade 1, Grade 3
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
Direct linkKim, Youb, Ed.; Risko, Victoria J., Ed.; Compton, Donald L., Ed.; Dickinson, David K., Ed.; Hundley, Melanie K., Ed.; Jimenez, Robert T., Ed.; Leander, Kevin M., Ed.; Rowe, Deborah Wells, Ed. – National Reading Conference, 2008
This publication offers the 57th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (NRC). This Yearbook begins with a preface and presents profiles of two awardees, John E. McEneaney and Scott G. Paris. Included in this Yearbook are the following papers: (1) The Education of African-American Students: Voicing the Debates, Controversies, and Solutions…
Descriptors: African American Students, Recreational Reading, Reading Ability, Scholarship
