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Aiex, Nola Kortner – 1990
This digest is intended to help and inform those teachers who are contemplating using children's literature to teach reading, and provides a brief review of material in the ERIC database on literature-based reading instruction. The digest includes sections on recent research, basic resources, assessing literature based reading, diverse methods…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Informal Assessment
Garcia, Georgia Earnest – 1992
The first part of this report reviews the different types of formal assessment measures that have been used to evaluate the language and literacy performance of second-language learners of English in the United States, including language proficiency tests, reading readiness tests, standardized reading tests, basal reading tests, and statewide…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Class Activities, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Marks, Tracey A.; And Others – 1994
A study describes the process of two first-grade teachers incorporating the Reading Recovery process of "roaming around the known" in their regular classrooms. Their purpose was to assess what their students knew about print. Data collection for these case studies took place for 16 weeks late in 1992; participants included 49 first-grade…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Case Studies, Classroom Design, Elementary School Teachers