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Quigg, Claudia – 1993
Designed for parents, this booklet provides parents with information about encouraging literacy in young children in the format of a children's book with illustrations from various works by noted children's illustrator Tomie dePaola. The booklet emphasizes the importance of reading to and with children, stressing that reading helps children learn…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childrens Literature, Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy
Simic, Marge; Smith, Carl, Comp. – 1990
Originally developed for the Department of Defense Schools (DoDDS) system, this learning package on involving parents in the reading process is designed for teachers who wish to upgrade or expand their teaching skills on their own. The package includes a comprehensive search of the ERIC database; a lecture giving an overview on the topic; the full…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Literacy, Inservice Teacher Education
Topolovac, Eleanore R.; And Others – 1982
The Jog America Read-A-Thon guide is one of the reading incentive strategies used in the Books and Beyond program which is designed to increase K-6 students' recreational reading and reduce their indiscriminate television viewing. The method used in this guide is to have students read books and move a running shoe marker on a large map of the…
Descriptors: Awards, Bulletin Boards, Commercial Television, Elementary Education
Piersma, Mary L.; Allen, Diane D. – 1989
A study examined the role of elementary and secondary school librarians/media specialists in Alabama in promoting reading growth, assisting classroom teachers, and teaching reading skills. Surveys were sent to all public school librarians in Alabama, and to their administrators. Results, based on 250 randomly selected surveys from librarians and…
Descriptors: Administrators, Elementary Secondary Education, Librarians, Library Research
Levinski, Carol; And Others – 1983
Developed to help students learn to read for purpose as well as for pleasure, these study units involving individual novels can be used as one-month or nine-week units, depending on the number of books assigned and the ability of the students. Test items and answer keys are provided for 28 titles, which include "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education, Junior High Schools, Literature Appreciation
Haviland, Virginia, Comp. – 1981
The annotated materials contained in this list of children's books for 1980 have been selected for literary merit, usefulness, and enjoyment, and are intended to reflect a year's publishing in a balance between books to be enjoyed for free reading, those for reading aloud, and those recognized as valuable for individualized reading programs or as…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Annotated Bibliographies, Art, Biographies
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1979
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 49 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: reading instruction for elementary school children, the significance of the teacher or teacher aide in reading instruction, reading achievement, reading…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Doctoral Dissertations
Manning, Maryann Murphy; Manning, Gary L. – 1979
The eight chapters in this book are designed to present a rationale for a developmental reading program in the middle school and to provide middle school teachers with concrete suggestions for teaching reading. The first two chapters present an overview of middle school philosophy and the rationale for providing reading instruction at that level.…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Integrated Curriculum, Middle Schools, Program Development
Whitman, Robert S. – Illinois English Bulletin, 1964
Superior high school students (975 finalists in the NCTE Achievement Awards Program) were surveyed to find what one book was most significant to each of them in their high school experiences, and the reason for the significance. In response to questionnaires, the students cited 416 different titles, 72% of which were novels. The top 10 books were…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Bibliographies, Books, English Instruction
Walters, Thomas N. – North Carolina English Teacher, 1968
Using four different types of magazines--"Saga,""True Confessions,""Holiday," and "The Atlantic"--during a 2-week study, high school students may (1) arrive at serviceable criteria for evaluating any magazine by subjecting it to specific questions concerning its content; (2) improve their communication skills through written and oral reports…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Content Area Reading, Discussion, English Instruction
Sebesta, Sam Leaton, Ed. – 1968
The papers contained in this volume offer the opinions and evidence of sixteen specialists on matters pertaining to literature for children and adolescents--the writing of literature, the selection of literature, and the role of literature in reading instruction. Taken together, they cover a wide range of grade levels and represent many points of…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Books, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education

Grubaugh, Steven – Clearing House, 1986
Discusses the effects of a sustained silent reading (SSR) program on school administrators, teachers, librarians, and the students. Offers suggestions on setting up an SSR program. (SRT)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Content, Program Implementation

Manning, Gary L.; Manning, Maryann – Reading World, 1984
Concludes that students involved in a peer-interaction model and an individual teacher-student conference model of recreational reading instruction obtained higher scores on a reading attitude measure than students in a sustained silent reading and a control model. Students involved in the peer-interaction model received significantly higher…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Class Organization, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades

Hurlburt, Graham; And Others – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 1983
Largely English-speaking female (31) and male (29) students in grades 10-12, ages 15 to 20, with grade point averages from 50 to over 65, in a Native-controlled school, answered questionnaires related to academic success, job interests, travel, off-reserve experiences, and spare time activities (reading, television viewing). (MH)
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Attitude Measures, Canada Natives, Career Choice
Krashen, Stephen – English Teachers' Journal (Israel), 1996
Describes how an English-as-a-Second-Language program can move as painlessly as possible from conversational to academic English in order to cover the use of English in business, politics, and science. The article focuses on helping students progress in their acquired language, in the absence of native speakers, after the program is over. (12…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English (Second Language), English for Special Purposes, Foreign Countries