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Altwerger, Bess; Arya, Poonam; Jin, Lijun; Jordan, Nancy L.; Laster, Barbara; Martens, Prisca; Wilson, G. Patricia; Wiltz, Nancy – English Education, 2004
In this article, the authors first describe their research, then discuss the ethical and professional dilemmas they face as teacher educators as a consequence of NCLB. Here, they offer some possible approaches to coping with these dilemmas in the context of university undergraduate and graduate teacher education programs. Their study examined the…
Descriptors: Ethics, Federal Legislation, Grade 2, Inservice Teacher Education
Barone, Diane M.; Xu, Shelley Hong – Guilford Publications, 2007
Summarizing current research and weaving it into practical instructional strategies that teachers can immediately use with young English language learners (ELLs), this book addresses a major priority for today's primary-grade classrooms. All aspects of effective instruction for ELLs are explored: oral language development and instruction,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Instructional Materials, Educational Strategies, Oral Language
Vaughn, Sharon; Linan-Thompson, Sylvia – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2007
At last, a truly helpful, practical guide for K-4 teachers who want to ensure that their approach to teaching young English language learners is based on research and grounded in proven classroom practices. The authors of ASCD's best-selling book "Research-Based Methods of Reading Instruction, Grades K-3" explain how you can help the English…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Phonemic Awareness, Second Language Learning
Sue Burroughs-Lange; Julia Douetil – Institute of Education - London, 2006
This study evaluated the impact of Reading Recovery early literacy intervention on children and classes in London schools. The progress in the 2005-6 school year was compared for 234 of the lowest achieving children in 42 schools serving disadvantaged areas. The children, aged around 6, who received Reading Recovery during the year, were compared…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Intervention, Low Achievement
Plewa, Susan – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2006
In this article, the author presents anecdotal scenarios which reflect some important moments in the teaching and learning of reading. In the first scenario, a student recognized fluent reading and named it, illustrating the power of a common vocabulary. The second scenario addressed the importance of common visual supports in the school…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Reading Strategies, School Libraries, Media Specialists
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Rightmyer, Elizabeth Campbell; McIntyre, Ellen; Petrosko, Joseph M. – Reading Research and Instruction, 2006
This study examined the phonics and reading achievement of 117 primary grade students in 14 schools and 42 classrooms. Students received instruction in one of six different reading programs or models based upon the school they attended. Through qualitative data collection and analysis of specific instructional practices, it was determined that no…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Primary Education, Teaching Methods, Reading Comprehension
Frost, Julie A.; Emery, Michael J. – 1995
This digest presents basic information for those providing educational services to children with dyslexia who have phonological core deficits. First it provides a brief overview, noting the incidence of dyslexia and the large number of these children with phonological deficits which result in far less academic progress than experienced by other…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Training, Definitions, Disability Identification
Robinson, Richard D., Ed.; And Others – 1996
Developed with practicing teachers in mind, this book presents reprints of 22 articles and excerpts from longer works that deal with the most significant trends and issues facing literacy educators--whole language, phonics, literacy materials, emergent literacy, spelling, assessment, content literacy, vocabulary instruction, national standards,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Technology, Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy
Andover Public Schools, MA. – 1986
This compilation presents materials related to Andover's Integrated Reading System (AIRS), which provides quality education for first through eighth grade promoting consistency of curricula throughout the system, competence in teaching skills for mastery, student enjoyment of literature, and significant growth in reading scores. The compilation…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Junior High Schools, Language Usage, Middle Schools
Pavlak, Stephen A. – 1985
This book provides 234 tested, easy-to-use exercises, games, and activities to help reading specialists and classroom teachers correct students' individual reading skill deficiencies at the primary, intermediate, and upper levels. The activities in the book are sequentially organized in the basic skill areas of phonic analysis, structural…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Corrective Reading, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education
Rosencrans, Gladys – 1998
A spelling manual for teachers of intermediate-level (grades 3-6) children, for elementary and middle school teachers working with students who have learning disabilities, and for teachers working with students for whom English is not their first language, this book outlines a methodology that combines whole language and phonetic strategies to…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Learning Disabilities, Middle Schools
Brunner, Michael S. – 1993
A survey was undertaken to provide a profile of current reading programs in juvenile correctional facilities. Data were gathered to determine whether "illiterates" exist in the juvenile correctional facilities; if oral comprehension is better than reading comprehension; what approaches and strategies are used for teaching word…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Juvenile Justice, National Surveys, Phonics
Chall, Jeanne S. – 1989
Phonics has been taught from the time of the ancient Greeks to make the written language more accessible. The first task of learning to read is learning to recognize in print the language used in speech. As a result of many studies conducted during the 1960s which demonstrated the effectiveness of phonics, its use as an instructional method…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Decoding (Reading), Educational History, Elementary Education
Weaver, Connie – 1990
The question of whether research supports a "phonics first" approach to teaching reading is not entirely answerable by factual evidence or statistical data: the issue is partly a matter of values and opinion. The debate is over whether phonics should be taught and tested in isolation, as a prelude to reading texts (the phonics-first…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Trends, Elementary Education, Phonics
Durkin, Dolores – 1990
A study examined th phonics instruction that five basal reader series provide from kindergarten through grade six. The five basal programs (designated as Series A through E) that were examined are both similar and dissimilar in the recommendations they make for phonics. One series covers as many as 129 letter-sound correspondences; another covers…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Vocabulary, Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading)
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