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Davis, Michael – Reading, 1990
Provides a humorous look at remedial reading strategies by proposing a method of upside-down reading for remedial reading teachers to use with poor readers. (MG)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Ability, Reading Difficulties, Reading Failure
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Bosh, Julie Morgan – Reading Improvement, 1989
Reviews four articles which suggest ways to help elementary students overcome frustration from reading failure. Suggests modifying negative attitudes, improving achievement through parent counseling, and teaching students self-regulatory skills. (SR)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Elementary Education, Parent Student Relationship, Reading Attitudes
Gee, James Paul – Journal of Urban and Cultural Studies, 1992
Explores what is meant by reading, noting that to read is to respond appropriately to a specific consensus centered on certain values and that the consensus is achieved among persons whose paths through life have come together with members of dominant discourses in society. (SLD)
Descriptors: Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Literacy
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Torgesen, Joseph K. – Journal of School Psychology, 2002
Provides practical advice about the methods to prevent reading failure that is grounded in the new knowledge that has been acquired about reading and learning to read over the past two decades. Concludes with a discussion of issues and procedures for the early identification of children who are likely to experience difficulties learning to read.…
Descriptors: Children, Early Identification, Early Intervention, Educational Diagnosis
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Speece, Deborah L.; Ritchey, Kristen D. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2005
The purpose of this study was to examine the development of oral reading fluency in a sample of first-grade children. Using growth curve analysis, models of growth were identified for a combined sample of at-risk (AR) and not-at-risk (NAR) children, and predictors of growth were identified for the longitudinal AR sample in first and second grade.…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Phonological Awareness, Word Recognition, Reading Failure
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Therrien, William J.; Wickstrom, Katherine; Jones, Kevin – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2006
Research was conducted to ascertain if a combined repeated reading and question generation intervention was effective at improving the reading achievement of fourth through eighth grade students with learning disabilities or who were at risk for reading failure. Students were assigned to a treatment or control group via a stratified random…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Questioning Techniques, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
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Merrick, Helen U. – Contemporary Education, 1975
A reading teacher advises parents to insist that teachers work to prevent initial reading failure at the beginning of first grade. (RC)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 1, Parent Responsibility, Parents
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Marcus, Fred W. – English Journal, 1974
Short films are a valuable resource for the teaching of reading to secondary students. (JH)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, English, English Instruction, Film Study
Pottorff, Donald D. – 1989
Larry arrived from California and was put in a fifth grade class's lowest reading group which was reading third-grade-level basals. Larry was often disruptive during reading instruction and claimed he could only read when the book was upside down. Tests indicated that Larry had normal vision but that he was learning disabled and reading at only a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Environment, Grade Repetition, Individualized Instruction
Mueller, E. Jane – 1989
A study examined the cost effectiveness of a summer school for failed first grade students and the long-term effects of first grade reading failure on reading achievement. Subjects, 361 students who were enrolled in the Cincinnati Public Schools' first grade in 1981, were given the California Achievement Test. Students who failed were denied…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Grade 1, Longitudinal Studies, Primary Education
DeVolder, Jean; DeVolder, Arthur – Learning Today, 1975
The disadvantaged reader, characterized by feelings of dependency and failure, can be helped by relevant, interesting, youth-oriented materials. (Author)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, High Interest Low Vocabulary Books, Language Handicaps, Library Role
Perfetti, Charles A. – 1980
Word recognition and reading failure are examined in this report using an interactive framework of the reading process based on the premise that reading is both a top-down and a bottom-up process, both conceptually guided and graphically based. Experiments are discussed that show that less-skilled readers are affected by anomalous contexts and…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Reading Achievement
Hobbs, Howard E. – 1974
The purpose of this study was to frame the outlines of an interpersonal theory derived from exploratory research among adolescent reading failures. The theory postulates that adolescent reading failure syndrome results from and is maintained by conscious elements of choice manifested in the adolescent's perception preferences. The affective…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Interaction Process Analysis, Perception, Psychological Patterns
Fay, Leo – 1969
The issues and problems faced today in regard to reading instruction were reviewed, and suggestions for meeting Commissioner Allen's challenge of the "Right to Read" were made. Three realities in United States education today include (1) the generally higher quality of the products of our schools than in the past, (2) startling statistical…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Functional Literacy, Group Norms, Illiteracy
Goodson, Floyd Lee – 1973
The purpose of this study was to find factors related to the success in reading of low-income white children in high schools in five West Virginia counties. The study asked whether disadvantaged students who succeed in reading differ significantly from disadvantaged students who fail in reading: (1) in the amount of their participation in physical…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Doctoral Dissertations, High School Students, Reading
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