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Download full textVan De Warker, Mary J. – 1973
A model for augmenting the impact of the community college reading instructor within the institution is presented in this paper. Reported are the actual findings and the criteria used in: (1) the assessment of the reading levels of students enrolled in three courses at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois; (2) the evaluation of the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Content Area Reading, Readability, Reading Comprehension
Kiesling, Herbert J. – 1972
This report presents the findings and implications of some research on the relationships of some educational inputs and reading performance of disadvantaged California Title I pupils which utilized a highly simplified model of the compensatory education process. The data for the study were gathered by questionnaire administered in personal…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Resources
Peer reviewedFrench, Michael P. – LD Forum, 1994
Inclusion of students with learning disabilities in regular education is explored as it relates to the in-class reading specialist. Issues discussed include the necessity for preservice and inservice preparation for assuming coteaching roles, the importance of personal empowerment of reading specialists, and the need for meaningful integration of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Inclusive Schools, Interprofessional Relationship
PDF pending restorationFaulkner, Anna Rebecca Clay – 1995
A practicum was designed to improve the literacy instruction of first-grade students by increasing the first grade teachers' and reading specialists' understandings of current research and theory. A graduate-level 3-hour course was developed and adopted by a local state university to assist teachers in understanding and utilizing the most current…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Educational Cooperation, Elementary School Teachers, Emergent Literacy
Flippo, Rona F.; And Others – 1982
The state of Georgia not only assesses the generic teaching competencies that are necessary for all teachers seeking certification, but also administers 28 separate criterion referenced tests, each for a different content-specialty area. Among the most recent of these tests is the Reading Specialist Test, the development of which involved…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Objectives, Graduate Study
Sanacore, Joseph; Rauch, Sidney J. – 1990
Intended for practitioners and graduate students in reading education and educational administration, this guide presents theory, research, and practice that will help prospective and working administrators and supervisors to conceptualize better ways of helping children learn to read and want to read. Chapter One, "The Need for Reading…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Administrators, Computer Uses in Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1981
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 24 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) learning experiences resulting from two ways of teaching reading; (2) Right to Read competencies of urban principals as perceived by three groups in reading…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Annotated Bibliographies, Communication Skills, Department Heads
Summers, Edward G., Ed.; Lukasevich, Ann, Ed. – 1978
Each of 1,067 articles selected for classification in this index were analyzed and individual annotations were written following specifically prepared guidelines. Entries are listed according to the following classification: reading in general; reviews and bibliographies; the correlates of reading, including general, intellectual,…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Holladay, Joanne; McGinty, Denise – 1978
In response to the expressed needs of students for preparation materials and classes relevant to graduate entrance examinations, a course designed to provide a review of math topics was created as part of a reading and study skills laboratory. Reading specialists are able to interface math teaching with their varied training in diagnosis,…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Diagnostic Teaching, Higher Education, Learning Laboratories
Hansen, Mogens – 1978
Once a year, all children in grades two through four in the schools of a suburb of Copenhagen, Denmark, are administered silent reading tests. The test scores become the basis for an hour-long dialogue between the respective classroom teacher and a reading specialist. The focus of the dialogue is the improvement of instruction for each child, and…
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Reading Ability
Torrant, Katherine E. – 1968
Reading innovations incorporated into the Newton, Massachusetts, school system are discussed. The program emphasizes individual differences, the influence of the home environment in developing attitudes towards reading, and the importance of prereading experiences for kindergarten children. The basal reading program, the individualized reading…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Developmental Reading, Family Environment, Independent Reading
Direct linkScarlato, Mary C.; Asahara, Erin – Journal of Direct Instruction, 2004
Nine 16-17-year-old adjudicated males below grade level in reading participated in this data-based case study. Weekly, 5 students received instruction from "Corrective Reading Decoding" Level B2 (Engelmann et al., 1998) for 180 min, and 4 students received instruction designed by a reading specialist (RS group) for 345 min. After 19…
Descriptors: Reading Consultants, Corrective Reading, Correctional Education, Delinquency
Ketcham, Clay A., Ed. – 1965
The proceedings of the eighth annual meeting of the College Reading Association consisted of the following papers: "President's Report" (M. J. Weiss); "What Constitutes a Minimal Program for Clinical Diagnosis of Reading Disabilities?" (G. L. Bond); "Problems in Establishing Developmental Reading Programs in Junior…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Paperback Books, Reading Achievement, Reading Centers
Fairchild, Miriam E.; And Others – 1988
A cost effectiveness study by the Austin (Texas) Independent School District of its elementary compensatory reading programs, namely, the Chapter 1 Reading Improvement Program (Chapter 1 Regular) and Schoolwide Projects (SWP), found that the Schoolwide Projects cost two to three times as much to achieve the same gains in student achievement as did…
Descriptors: Accountability, Compensatory Education, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Education
Stahl, Norman A.; Brozo, William G. – 1984
The vocabulary development curriculum offered by developmental reading programs in Georgia postsecondary institutions was studied. A total of 49 reading specialists from 39 institutions completed a questionnaire that covered: emphasis placed on vocabulary development, practices followed in expanding students' vocabularies, and the materials used…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Postsecondary Education
