Publication Date
In 2025 | 14 |
Since 2024 | 151 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 701 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 1653 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 3169 |
Descriptor
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
Teachers | 675 |
Practitioners | 520 |
Researchers | 68 |
Parents | 56 |
Students | 54 |
Administrators | 38 |
Media Staff | 13 |
Policymakers | 9 |
Community | 2 |
Counselors | 2 |
Support Staff | 2 |
More ▼ |
Location
Turkey | 105 |
Iran | 87 |
China | 77 |
Taiwan | 70 |
Canada | 67 |
Australia | 51 |
Texas | 46 |
Saudi Arabia | 45 |
United Kingdom (England) | 45 |
United States | 44 |
Japan | 43 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Meets WWC Standards without Reservations | 19 |
Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations | 33 |
Does not meet standards | 32 |
Arkansas State Dept. of Education, Little Rock. – 1998
Based on the 1998 Arkansas English Language Arts Curriculum Frameworks, this sample curriculum model for grade eight language arts is divided into sections focusing on writing; reading; and listening, speaking, and viewing. The writing section's stated goals are to help students employ a wide range of strategies as they write; use different…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Curriculum Development, Grade 8, Junior High Schools
Gude, Sonya; Jackson, Tonya; Shaw, Arnitria – 2000
This report describes a program for improving reading comprehension skills in order to heighten understanding of materials covered in class and performance on activities and exams. The targeted population consisted of first-, fifth-, and eighth-grade students in a large, lower- to middle-class community located in central Illinois. The problems in…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Techniques, Content Area Reading, Cooperative Learning
Scott, Louise Shewfelt – 1999
This report discusses the outcomes of a study that investigated whether the Accelerated Reader program meets its claim to motivate and improve reading achievement for all students, including those with special needs. The Accelerated Reader program is a computer-based reading management system that includes a database of thousands of books ranging…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Learning Disabilities, Middle School Students, Middle Schools
Reyhner, Jon – 2001
This digest summarizes ways to help young American Indian and Alaska Native children become fluent readers. There are numerous reading intervention programs, each with its own set of claims and counter-claims. Phonics approaches are designed for standard English speakers, and students with limited English abilities end up parroting what they read…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Basal Reading, Culturally Relevant Education, Elementary Education
Perkins, Terry; Weissinger, Lynne – State of Reading, 1995
Uses response journals to explore the ways fourth-grade students respond to literature. Finds factors necessary to mesh text and a reader's personal experiences: a classroom atmosphere that encourages risk-taking; daily opportunities to read and respond; a wide variety of choices in reading materials; modeling of good reading strategies; and…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, English Instruction, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades

Johnson, Denise – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 1997
Describes a project conducted in a reading methods course for preservice elementary education students to model how technology can be incorporated into the curriculum to facilitate learning. Preservice teachers collaborated with practicing teachers via electronic mail to gain a greater understanding of different philosophies of reading.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Technology, Electronic Mail, Elementary Education

Riley, Richard W. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1996
The U.S. Secretary of Education describes the Department of Education's READ*WRITE*NOW! Initiative which aims to increase literacy rates by encouraging early and frequent reading as well as summer reading for children and youth, including those with learning disabilities. The need for a closer relationship between research and practice in reading…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Literacy

Yoshimoto, Ronald – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1997
This article describes the Advanced Language Structures program, a language program for students in grades K-12 who are gifted or gifted/at-risk or who have dyslexia/learning disabilities. The program emphasizes prefixes, suffixes, and Latin/Greek roots to provide students with strategies for reading and spelling higher-level words and developing…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Gifted

Pullen, Paige C.; Justice, Laura M. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2003
This article presents an overview of phonological awareness, print awareness, and oral language development and discusses the critical role they play in emergent literacy. Recent research is reviewed and strategies are provided for promoting emergent literacy through each of these areas in the preschool classroom. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy, Language Acquisition, Oral Language

Rohena, Elba I.; Jitendra, Asha K.; Browder, Diane M. – Journal of Special Education, 2002
A study investigated the effectiveness of a 4-second time delay instructional package and language of instruction on the learning of English sight words and incidental information by 4 Puerto Rican middle school students with mental retardation. Both Spanish and English time delay conditions were equally effective and efficient for 3 participants.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Instructional Effectiveness, Language of Instruction, Mental Retardation

Verhoeven, Ludo T. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1990
Investigates differences in reading acquisition processes between Dutch and Turkish children learning to read Dutch. Finds that both groups rely on comparable reading strategies. Presents a structural model to examine interactions between the various reading processes in Dutch. Suggests that children learning to read in a second language should…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Models

Adamson, H. D. – English for Specific Purposes, 1990
The recent emphasis on content-based English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction is motivated by research showing that English proficiency does not correlate with academic success. Case studies of 15 ESL students in content classes suggest that a lack of academic success may be the result of a lack of effective academic skills. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Coping

Kloster, Aldona M.; Winne, Philip H. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1989
A study involving 199 eighth graders in British Columbia assessed the use of conceptual, analogical, and outline methods of organization of textual material concerning computer crime and prevention. Findings indicate that simple presentation of a genuine advance organizer does not guarantee that students will use it effectively. (TJH)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Computer Science Education, Crime, Crime Prevention

Roberts, Theresa A. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1989
Western and Soviet views of memory-related performance are synthesized. Whether middle childhood-aged students comprehend better with meaning-based (involuntary) strategies due to the importance of semantic focus, and whether adolescent students comprehend better with memory-oriented (voluntary) strategies were studied with 243 students in grades…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Child Development, Children

Kishor, Nand – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1994
Reports on a study of predictive judgments and evaluation methods among 33 elementary teachers. Finds that inaccuracy in teachers' judgments of students is due partly to inappropriate use of consensus or comparative performance data. (CFR)
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Grades (Scholastic)