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Ellis, Allan B. – 1975
In order to discover whether there were any inner-city elementary schools in Massachusetts which were successful in teaching children to read, a two-year study was undertaken. Results of the study, reported in this document, showed that there is no one pattern for success but that there is a process by which schools, either alone or in…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Reading
Kaiser, Robert A. – 1970
The roles of the teacher and clinician in the diagnostic reading situation are explored, and the importance of diagnosis for reading instruction is stressed. Emphasis on a child-centered program, with the classroom and the clinic viewed as basic structures for gathering diagnostic information, is recommended. Factors related to reliability,…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Clinical Diagnosis, Diagnostic Teaching, Diagnostic Tests
Greenhill, Neil Jon – 1973
The purpose of this study was to determine whether primary dyslexic children are impaired equally in the areas of language and cognition and to assess the value of verbal cues in raising the dyslexic group's performance on word-retrieval tasks. Two groups of male children were used in the investigation. The experimental group consisted of primary…
Descriptors: Children, Doctoral Dissertations, Dyslexia, Language Handicaps
Downing, Gertrude L. – 1973
This paper discusses the general situation of reading instruction at the secondary level. The paper is divided into three sections: "Two Decades of Reading 'Programs,'" which discusses the increasing numbers of retarded readers, the claims of reading materials, and the characteristics of some of the existing reading programs;…
Descriptors: Reading, Reading Failure, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
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Harper, C. B. J. – 1976
Recent research indicates the centrality of "attending" as a variable in reading acquisition. Attending is, in fact, more important than such traditionally accepted influences as intelligence, cognitive style, attitudes, and language background. Differences in attending behavior, which are molded through match and mismatch of expectations with…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Control, Elementary Education, Literature Reviews
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Dunkeld, Colin; Denny, Patricia Neimann – Journal of Reading, 1986
Recounts the story of Tom, a nonreader, and how a computer helped him to communicate and eventually learn to read. (DF)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Microcomputers
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Pitman, James – Educational Horizons, 1972
This article, from Education for Teaching''--Autumn 1970, has been published in London as Publications Number 12 of The i.t.a. Foundation. (Editor)
Descriptors: College Role, Educational Change, Failure, Family Influence
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Bell, D. Bruce; And Others – Journal of Educational Research, 1972
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Educational Research, Junior High School Students, Motivation
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Ward, Byron J. – Reading Teacher, 1970
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Grade 1, Kindergarten Children, Predictive Measurement
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White, Margaret; And Others – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1979
An abbreviated battery of eight screening tests was administered to 407 White first-grade boys. Discriminant analysis showed that 75 percent of those identified as being at high risk of reading failure did exhibit severe or mild comprehension problems in third grade. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Grade 1, Males, Predictive Measurement, Predictive Validity
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Alm, Richard S. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1981
Examples showing how educational practices can result in students' reading difficulties are taken from the problem areas of: classroom atmosphere, reading attitudes, parental reactions, dull or difficult reading materials, limited reading resources, teaching practices, overemphasis on skills, and the individual needs of students. (JN)
Descriptors: Individual Needs, Parent Attitudes, Reading Difficulties, Reading Failure
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Carroll, Pamela Sissi – English Journal, 1992
Describes how an intelligent and articulate eighth grade student, who could neither read nor write, was able to participate in Directed Individualized Reading (DIR) with the help of books on audiocassettes. (PRA)
Descriptors: Grade 8, High Risk Students, Junior High Schools, Literature Appreciation
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Sheridan, E. Marcia – Reading Horizons, 1993
Examines research on comparative differences in reading disabilities to determine whether findings corroborate the belief that learning to read in Japanese produces fewer reading disabilities resulting from its writing system. Suggests that there is no perfect orthography and that a small percentage of children will have difficulty in learning to…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
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Heath, Steve M.; Hogben, John H. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2004
This study addressed 2 questions: (a) Can preschoolers who will fail at reading be more efficiently identified by targeting those at highest risk for reading problems? and (b) will auditory temporal processing (ATP) improve the accuracy of identification derived from phonological processing and oral language ability? A sample of 227 preschoolers…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Prediction, Phonological Awareness, Identification
Manzo, Kathleen Kennedy – Education Week, 2005
Just a few years ago, a set of tests known as "dibbles" would have elicited little more than a chuckle from educators or anyone else. Today, they're taking it seriously, because the acronym DIBELS has come to symbolize the standard for early-literacy assessment throughout much of the country. Teachers in Reading First schools in more…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Fluency, Emergent Literacy, Instructional Effectiveness
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