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Download full textZacamy, Jenna; Newman, Denis; Lazarev, Valeriy; Lin, Li – National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools, 2015
This paper reports findings from a multi-year study of the scale-up of Reading Apprenticeship (RA), an approach to improve academic literacy by helping teachers provide the support students need to be successful readers in the content areas. WestEd's Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI), began developing the program in 1995 and has since reached…
Descriptors: Scaling, Reading Programs, Apprenticeships, Educational Innovation
Augstein, E. Sheila; Thomas, Laurie F. – 1975
An action research study that offered students in sixth form, college of education, and university a framework and context for exploring and reviewing their reading-for-learning competencies led to significant improvement on a battery of measures. This paper draws attention to and makes explicit the psychosocial events within the action research…
Descriptors: Action Research, Higher Education, Participation, Reading Improvement
Levine, Daniel U. – 1988
In order to assess relationships and problems in drawing conclusions regarding productive school practices, a study analyzed the 1984 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data on homework and reading achievement among 13-year-olds. A previous study (Lange, 1987) examining the NAEP data set concluded that the number of hours spent on…
Descriptors: Community Influence, Data Interpretation, Homework, Parent Influence
Cohen, Suzette F. – 1985
Unskilled readers can become skilled readers and learners of whole text, if they are given instruction in effective strategies and taught to monitor and check their comprehension while reading. Two strategies for comprehension monitoring are self-questioning and reciprocal teaching. Questions students can ask before reading concern the concepts…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Peer Teaching, Questioning Techniques, Reading Comprehension
Narang, H. L. – 1973
The checklist presented in this paper is intended for the evaluation of secondary reading programs and contains five sections. "School Philosophy and Objectives" looks at programs as they relate to reading instruction. "Organization and Facilities" examines the sequential development of the reading program, program emphasis, types of programs,…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Evaluation Methods, Program Evaluation, Reading
Cafarella, Ruth L. – 1975
This paper discusses the TV Reading Program in Philadelphia and Mount Vernon which encourages the development of auditory-vocal behaviors without preempting the English, social studies, or science curricula. The program in both districts fosters practice in expressing standard grammar orally. Teachers in the TV Reading Program work from prepared…
Descriptors: Educational Television, Language Acquisition, Reading, Reading Improvement
Schnell, Thomas R.; Rocchio, Daniel J. – 1974
Research on the use of underlining or typographical cueing to improve both immediate and delayed recall of prose material by high school students is described and analyzed. Student underlining (with and without prior underlining instruction) instructor underlining, and noncued reading of a study-type material were examined, along with interactions…
Descriptors: Cues, Reading, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement
Verner, Zenobia Brown; Siedow, Mary Dunn – 1976
A study was conducted to assess the benefits of using the newspaper in reading classes for high school special education students. Students in one of two classes received two trimesters of instruction in basic reading skills through use of the newspaper. Students in the other class received one trimester of instruction in developmental reading and…
Descriptors: Newspapers, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction, Reading Research
Sinatra, Richard C. – 1975
A method for stimulating and facilitating organizational writing in the secondary school is described in this paper. Pictorial sequences are coordinated and arranged to typify the four major styles of writing: narrative, descriptive, expository, and persuasive. These sequences both portray a meaningful event in keeping with the writing style and…
Descriptors: Reading Improvement, Secondary Education, Student Writing Models, Teaching Methods
Babcock, Natalie; Bartin, Norma – 1973
This article proposes steps for a systematic, logical method of moving from a nonexistent or limited reading program at the secondary or junior college level to a highly effective one which better meets the needs of the students. The first step suggested is to survey general reading ability within a school in order to formulate the direction the…
Descriptors: Program Development, Reading, Reading Centers, Reading Improvement
Pikulski, John J. – 1974
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the assessment of intelligence as it relates to reading. Its primary focus is upon criteria that might be applied to the information about intelligence and how it relates to reading. The contents include: "General Considerations," which discusses the concept of intelligence, measuring instruments…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Intelligence, Intelligence Tests, Reading
Long, Roger M. – 1976
This paper outlines the seventh-grade developmental reading program at Finn Hill Junior High School in Kirkland, Washington. The program format is discussed, as well as the operation of the program, the directed reading and follow-up activities, library and free reading time, the reading laboratory, record keeping and grading, and advantages and…
Descriptors: Developmental Reading, Junior High Schools, Program Evaluation, Reading Improvement
Courtney, Leonard – 1973
Described in this paper is a technique for reading instruction at the secondary level which emphasizes paragraph-passage examination and is intended to fit into any content teacher's daily work. The technique described provides occasion to establish purpose in reading-study assignments, utilize experience and previous background to develop…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Reading, Reading Development
Googins, Duane G. – 1974
The purpose of this paper is to give a brief overview of the reasons why a model change for servicing children with specific learning needs was recommended for the St. Anthony Village-New Brighton School District, an overview of the Resource Unit model proposed, and a summary report of the Resource Units within a small district's elementary and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Problems
PDF pending restorationSinatra, Richard – 1981
Reading and writing teachers can use visual compositions--a grouping of pictures, photos, or slides suggesting a unified story or theme--to help students understand style and organization in writing. Students who are categorized as language deficient, have difficulty with invention, or are influenced in language learning by visual/spatial input…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Problems, Motivation Techniques, Pictorial Stimuli
