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Kline, Elinor; And Others – Reading Research and Instruction, 1987
Describes Colonel Francis Parker's efforts to humanize beginning reading, discussing how they offer guidelines for present day lesson planning. Reveals that his aims were to connect reading with children's interests and backgrounds, with content area studies, and with modes of expression such as speaking, drawing, oral reading, and writing. (SKC)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Content Area Reading, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational History
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Benton, Peter – Oxford Review of Education, 1995
Surveys the reading and viewing habits of British teenagers. Discovers that, although U.S. horror fiction (R. L. Stine, Stephen King) tops the lists, a wide diversity exists among the less popular authors. Reveals marked gender differences in amount of time spent viewing videos, television, and computer games. (MJP)
Descriptors: Computer Games, Foreign Countries, Independent Reading, Individualized Reading
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Hetzel, June; Soto-Hinman, Ivannia – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2007
"No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) attempts to ensure educational equity for all K-12 students. However, for the conceptual goals of NCLB to become reality, pre-service teacher training models must be modified to include a deeper understanding of individual differences and how these play out in classroom dynamics. The "Three Literacy…
Descriptors: Literacy, Achievement Gap, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC. – 1987
Focusing on reinforcing students' reading skills at home, this pamphlet emphasizes that parents should read aloud to children, talk to them about their experiences, take them places, limit their television-watching, and take an interest in their reading progress. Children's success and interest in reading is said to depend largely on whether they…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Educational Television, Elementary Education, Home Programs
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1983
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 28 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) abled and disabled sixth grade readers' knowledge of story structure under three conditions, (2) the impact of typographical factors on the visual information…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Comparative Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational History
Southgate, Vera; And Others – 1981
Extending Beginning Reading was a research project based at the School of Education, University of Manchester, England, from September 1973 to December 1977. The project, aimed at helping readers seven years and older improve their reading skills, is detailed in this book, in which most of the seven sections contain implications for teachers. The…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 16 titles deal with the following topics: adolescent reading preferences for type of theme and sex of protagonist; empirical studies in response to literature; bibliographic control of American literature from 1920 to 1975; the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Annotated Bibliographies, Black Literature, Childrens Literature
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Manna, Anthony L.; Misheff, Sue – Journal of Reading, 1987
Uses anecdotal evidence to investigate elementary and secondary school reading teachers' perceptions of their own development as readers. Analyzes positive and negative factors that influenced these teachers both in school (such as teachers, instructional practices, learning environment) and out of school (such as family reading, library exposure,…
Descriptors: Censorship, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Influence, Family School Relationship
Thomas, James L., Ed.; Loring, Ruth M., Ed. – 1983
Intended for teachers, librarians, and reading specialisits, the articles in this collection of essays address the problem of how to determine, capture, and then maintain children's interest in the reading process. Preceded by biographical information on the contributors and a brief introduction, the essays have been placed into one of four major…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1983
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 14 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the effect of dialect variation on second grade students' perception of phoneme-grapheme correspondence; (2) communication rules and perceived outcomes within…
Descriptors: American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies, Bilingual Education, Blacks
Small, Robert C., Jr. – 1987
Noting that teacher education students are unfamiliar with the censorship issue, this paper discusses three kinds of censorship the pre-service English teacher can be expected to face, and suggests ways to prepare them to recognize and remedy anticipated problems. The essay identifies the first kind of censorship as that imposed by English…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Censorship, Elementary Secondary Education, English Curriculum
Weintraub, Sam; And Others – 1982
An annual compilation, this report contains summaries of more than 1,000 reading related studies. The summaries are arranged in five categories: teacher preparation and practice, the sociology of reading, the physiology and psychology of reading, reading instruction, and the reading of atypical readers. Specific topics covered in the summaries…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Beginning Reading, Content Area Reading, Cultural Influences
Blatt, Gloria T. – 1981
A longitudinal study examined the classroom environments in which 30 children learned to read. Over the first four years of the study, data were collected on how the children's third, fourth, fifth, and sixth grade teachers taught reading and other subjects, the kinds and numbers of books that the children had available to read, the functions of…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education
Stewart, John – Bulletin of the Modern Foreign Language Association of Virginia, 1969
Although there might not be any one solution to the problems of how and when to introduce literature effectively into the college language curriculum, stress, at any level, should be placed both on student enjoyment and the relevancy and difficulty of the reading materials selected. College language teachers must investigate (1) what constitutes…
Descriptors: Books, College Language Programs, College School Cooperation, Curriculum Problems
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Gambell, Trevor J. – English Quarterly, 1986
Defends the study of literature in the elementary and secondary grades for its ability to help students think both creatively and critically. Provides objectives for teaching literature such as development of perception, expression, cognitive style, aesthetic awareness, moral values, and writing ability. (SRT)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Cognitive Development, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking
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