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Iarusso, Marilyn Berg – Catholic Library World, 1989
Summarizes current research on teaching children to love reading, and identifies techniques that can be used by parents, teachers and librarians to foster this attitude. The topics discussed include the value of reading aloud to children, selecting children's books, the different interests of boys and girls, and reading to develop values. (six…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Library Role, Motivation
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Johnson, Helen L.; And Others – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 1996
Describes Focus on Teenage Parents, a project with an integrated approach that incorporates material on child development, personal identity, and parenting issues to immerse high school students, many of them parents, in children's literature and process writing. (SR)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Childrens Literature, Early Parenthood, Family Literacy
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Romance, Nancy R.; Vitale, Michael R. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1992
Reports a study of replacing a basal reading program with a curriculum emphasizing science activities, science process skills, and science-content-based reading in three fourth-grade classrooms (n=51). Results showed these students displayed significantly greater sores on tests of reading and science, and more positive attitudes toward science and…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Content Area Reading, Educational Research, Elementary Education
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Gunther, Albert C.; Snyder, Leslie B. – Journalism Quarterly, 1992
Compares the processing strategies of Indonesian and U.S. university students using an international news story attributed either to a high- or low-constraint source. Finds that audiences in censored news environments are more critical in distinguishing among news sources but less critical of the unconstrained news itself. (SR)
Descriptors: Audience Response, Censorship, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
Cohen, Robin – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1992
Describes one New York City teacher's project to establish a book store in school offering quality, low cost titles to children. Covers the funding process, physical set-up, parent involvement, staffing with student workers, stocking the store, hours of operation, and positive student and parent response. (JB)
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Books, Bookstores, Childrens Literature
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Anderson, William W.; Fordham, Ann E. – Childhood Education, 1991
Suggests seven reasons for parents to beware of popular commercial phonics programs designed to give their children a competitive edge in learning to read. Discusses what parents can do to promote their children's efforts to learn to read. (BB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Developmental Stages, Early Childhood Education, Parent Child Relationship
Powe, Bruce W. – Education Canada, 1998
Reflections on the solitary, personal experience of reading and writing contrasted to the "rampant technocapitalism" of the computer presentation of data. Technology may have reconfigured reading; written language; and the publication, distribution, promotion, and place of books, but as long as there is concern for imaginative…
Descriptors: Books, Computer Mediated Communication, Computers, Futures (of Society)
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Miller, Samuel D.; Meece, Judith L. – Elementary School Journal, 1999
Evaluated third graders' preferences for reading and writing tasks. Found that students frequently exposed to high-challenge tasks preferred them because they felt creative, experienced positive emotions, and worked hard. Those with less exposure to high-challenge questioned whether they had the appropriate metacognitive ability to complete them.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
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Braio, Ann; Beasley, T. Mark; Dunn, Rita; Quinn, Peter; Buchanan, Karen – Journal of Educational Research, 1997
Introduced varied learning style (LS) strategies in five stages to special education and low-achieving general education students, removing them in the final phase. Pre- and posttests of reading achievement in each phase and assessment of students' LS preferences indicated that students with LS preferences benefited from LS accommodations,…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Cognitive Style, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Quick, Kathy – New Advocate, 1999
Describes an extraordinary experience teaching comprehension strategies to fourth-grade reluctant readers through literature study. Notes how the experience was a fusion of three critical elements: an extraordinary group experience, a text that taught itself, and an instructional model that met the students' needs. (SR)
Descriptors: Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Literature Appreciation, Reader Text Relationship
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Patterson, Nancy, Ed.; Pipkin, Gloria, Ed. – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Argues that computer technology can help to engage struggling readers in meaningful transactions with text. Lists and describes seven web sites that will captivate reluctant readers. Notes three web sites that send students on "WebQuests" to transact with text in order to build knowledge. Discusses other ways to engage students in text via…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Electronic Text, English Instruction, Language Arts
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Jurkus, Janice M.; Dujsik, Gerald – Optometric Education, 1996
A survey of optometry faculty (n=263) produced a ranking of 77 optometric journals by the frequency respondents reported they read or scanned them. Data on whether the journal is refereed and included on the Medline database are also provided. Findings indicate that journals based on membership in an organization were read or scanned more often…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Allied Health Occupations Education, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis
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Gillespie, Catherine Wilson; Pelren, Suzanne L.; Twardosz, Sandra – Early Education and Development, 1998
Evaluated in two studies the role of book rotation and number of books available in promoting book use among preschool children in day care classrooms. Found some support for book rotation in promoting voluntary book use, but teacher presence in the reading area was most strongly correlated with children's book use. (JPB)
Descriptors: Books, Day Care, Day Care Centers, Ecological Factors
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Hayden, Ruth; Sanders, Maureen – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1998
Twenty urban Canadian community health and social workers received six hours of training in family-literacy development-strategies As a result, participants demonstrated a shift in attitudes about literacy, from skills-achievement to sociocultural perspectives on literacy-achievement, and included literacy events more frequently in their own…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Community Services, Educational Attitudes, Emergent Literacy
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Jones, Patrick – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Offers brief descriptions of 25 books, both fiction and nonfiction, that are accessible to struggling readers, provide a high-quality reading experience, and may allow them to break through their difficulties to see reading as something of value to their lives. (SR)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Annotated Bibliographies, Books, Childrens Literature
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